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Some resources for teaching children about money, mostly listing excellent curriculum, but includes a few good books as well.
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Money Doesn't Grow on Trees -
"A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children"
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Rich Dad Poor Dad - What the rich teach their kids about money that others don't
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What Kids need to Know about Money - Kiplinger
Not full curriculum
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Washington State School list - recommendations for curriculum, sort of an aggregate list
Existing Curriculum that includes Upper Grades
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Money Savvy Generation -
For classrooms; Teacher’s kit: $199 per 2 grades; materials $4.95 per kid
Short...but well organized.. Total teaching time per grade is only about 1.5 hrs per grade
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BizKids - Video episodes on a variety of topics; about 6 overall big topics, including entrepreneurship; 66 DVDs for $3100; lesson plans include. Overview and lesson plans seem to be free on-line, so it’s hard to tell what else is in the videos for purchase.
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Practical Money Skills - Created by Visa, has teacher and student materials; Need an account to be able to look at the materials, which I didn’t want to do right now in my own email. Perhaps I can do it at work. But it came on the list of recommended curriculum from the Washington State government list of money curriculums for schools
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Classroom Economy by Vanguard - Complete set of materials for setting up an economy system in a classroom; has a specific format and not really teaching individual topics that I can see, though I have seen this in use in a classroom and it really works nicely.
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Foundations in Personal Financy - David Ramsey -
High School
teacher’s pack starts at $499
Existing curriculum for teaching children about money in grades K - 5
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Citigroup Financial Education for Kids -
K - 5; and then there’s a teen one as well
On-line interactive episodes, along with Lesson Plan and tips; Excellent, nicely done, and lessons would be fairly long, although the on-line portion is quick.
Nice...
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Moonjar -
Can’t see the curriculum without buying the leader’s guide for $14.95
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National Financial Educator’s Council -
K-5; also have middle and high school
Seems like it might be thorough and complete, but can’t tell as pricing starts at $197 for single use;For $400 or so, you can get certified by them as a Financial Educator :)
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Reading Makes Cents: 3rd - 5th grade - Put out by National 4-H, it uses children’s literature to teach about money. Nice idea. Costs $17 to order package. Reviewed and recommended by Michigan State University