Business Sites

http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/ 

Visa has helped create this site to improve our student’s financial skills: Practical Money Skills for Life.  In addition to providing online tools and resources, this site offers classroom material that educators can use to teach personal finance.

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html  A Salary Calculator site with other helpful information such as cost of housing, moving etc..

Stock Market simulation- www.mainXchange.com  This free site is aimed at students at least in Middle School but more appropriate for high school. It teaches about business, the stock market and publically traded companies through interactive participation and multimedia presentations.

Escape from Knab: A practical and useful Business site :

http://www.escapefromknab.com/

GRADE LEVEL: 6-12

CONTENT:  A

Escape from Knab was created by the financial institution Firstar to help students develop financial strategies that will enable them to make sound decisions about day-to-day financial matters.

AESTHETICS: A

The site is cute, colorful, and entertaining. Visitors will need Shockwave for parts of the simulation and can download it at the site 

ORGANIZATION: A

Visitors to Knab can simply navigate through the site by clicking on their choices and going to the next scenario.

REVIEW: A

Give your students a lesson in financial decision making with this fun, interactive site. This simulation has students landing on the faraway planet of Knab. Getting a job is no problem but making the correct financial decisions that will earn enough money for a ticket back to planet Earth is a bit more of a challenge. Scenarios include completing a W-4 form, writing checks, making budget decisions, buying a car, investing, and more. Each visit to Knab has different choices so students can practice the decision-making skills over and over as they revise their strategies for acquiring enough money to purchase the $10,000 ticket back home. Teachers will find support for using the site in the classroom in Educational Stuff. Resources include curriculum standards, activity sheets, a glossary, and tips for classroom presentation.

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	CONTENT: This site teaches middle grades students all about U.S. Savings Bonds. It includes a downloadable curriculum booklet that teaches math using real-life examples from personal finance.
	SITE DESIGN: The site has a simple look and organization with links in the left side menu. A search option is available and for those needing help with downloading a link for help can be found at the bottom of the lesson page.
	REVIEW: Engage your middle school students in life-lessons about personal finance. Students learn personal finance concepts such as how to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement. The standards-based lesson plans in the downloadable teachers' guide teach such math concepts as percent, data analysis, measurement, average, reasoning, spreadsheet and problem solving. Included are reproducible activity pages and teaching tips. Additionally at the site visitors will find questions and answers about savings bonds, fun facts, a slide show to introduce teachers to the curriculum, an email link for asking questions, printable games, a glossary and links to personal finance education resources on the Web.

It All Adds Up!
Dynamic site for teens on personal finance.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2005/r0205-23.shtml

URL:
http://www.italladdsup.org/

REVIEW: A+
This engaging site will give teens a leg up on managing their financial future. Students play online games and simulations to learn planning techniques for buying a car, paying for college, budgeting, saving and investing and managing credit cards. The activities are aligned to standards in economics and math and provide high school students an opportunity to practice their skills in a format that is relevant to their interests. The teacher’s guide offers objectives, keyword vocabulary, standards, a description of the activity and additional resources for each of the five modules: Getting and Using a Credit Card, Buying a Car, Budget Odyssey, Saving and Investing Blitz, and You’re Going to College. Teachers will find this to be a useful resource for supplementing the economics curriculum.

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