In today’s complex financial landscape, Colorado teachers have a unique opportunity to shape the financial futures of their students, and it starts with providing them with the right resources to learn. PersonalFinanceLab was designed to engage your students with hands-on learning experiences, making complex financial concepts more accessible and fun to learn.
Click on the link below to see how our learning materials align specifically to Colorado’s Personal Financial Literacy Expectations Standards Alignment.
Learning Materials
When you get a site license on PersonalFinanceLab, you get more than just the self-grading lessons and the fully customizable Budget and Stock Games. You also get a host of ready-to-go course outlines, lesson plans, presentations and financial literacy videos. Everything you need to supplement your existing curriculum, and bring personal finance to life!
Course Outlines
If you’re new to teaching personal finance, you’ll find everything you need to structure your course in each of our course outlines. You’ll have time estimations per activity as well as a suggested sequence of tasks that make the most of the games and lessons available on PersonalFinanceLab.
18-Week Course Outline
Includes a pacing guide for a personal finance course with teacher packets, student packets, grading rubrics and class activities.
9-Week Course Outline
Includes a pacing guide for a shorter timeframe, with teacher packets, student packets, grading rubrics and class activities.
3-Week Enrichment Course
For afterschool programs, summer programs or condensed courses to make the most of PersonalFinanceLab in little time.
Lesson Plans
Our team is adding new lesson plans all the time to our collection of downloadable pdfs on investing, personal finance and economics topics. Each one includes challenge questions and key vocabulary words to review with your class. You’ll also get suggested individual, group and full class activities that reinforce key financial literacy standards with fun and engaging projects or tasks.
Presentations
You will also get access to dozens of presentations (available in both PowerPoint and Google Slides) covering topics like:
- What is Money?
- Credit Cards
- Work vs Study
- Protecting Against Fraud
- Opportunity Cost
Financial Literacy Videos
Did you know, we also make our own animated videos? Not only do we have tutorial videos for how your students can invest in all the different asset classes, (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, cryptos etc.) as well as how-to videos on how to play the Budget Game. But we have a growing list of short videos that teach your students about key concepts. Check out one of our latest videos on Compound Interest, or click this button to see our full Video Library.