MoneyAndStuff.info was created with educators in mind. Ohio's credit unions want to make it easy for you to teach financial concepts to your students (whatever ages they are).
- Use the MoneyAndStuff.info Classroom Activities
Use these fun activities and games to teach money concepts to younger children using common items and simple concepts.
- Use MoneyAndStuff.info Classroom Lessons
The MoneyAndStuff.info experts have compiled these comprehensive lesson plans for use in classrooms at no cost to educators. Select from three levels for each topic: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Select lessons are available in Spanish.
Lesson 1: Money Matters
Lesson 2: Savings & Budgeting
Lesson 3: Credit Concepts
Lesson 4: Future Goals
Lesson 5: Investing
Credit Union volunteers may be available in your area to teach a session. For more information on partnering with a credit union near you, visit the partner page or contact the Ohio Credit Union League via email or at 1-800-486-2917.
- Print free coloring & activity pages
Young students can use their free time to learn about money in a fun and creative way with our free coloring pages. Each one includes a simple financial lesson.
- Use MoneyAndStuff.info online money videos
Kids can watch these videos anytime and learn fun games and tips while they learn about responsible money management.
- Order the Biz Kid$ textbook on the banking and financial system
A brand new high school text book on Banking and Financial Systems is now available from the experts who produce the Biz Kid$ TV epsodes for children.The Goodheart-Willcox publishing company asked Biz Kid$ producers to author the high school textbook. This is the first children’s series to author a textbook and is also the first textbook to receive the Jump$tart Coalition’s seal of approval. The textbook retails for $79.96. It is available to educators at a discounted price of $59.97. Online text and a six-year classroom subscription is also available at the same prices.
- Use the online FoolProof curriculum
Use up to 22 hours of online, video-driven, self-grading financial literacy instruction. Young people do all the teaching in friendly peer-to-peer instruction. You can use one module or the entire curriculum. Visit www.FoolProofTeacher.com
- Partner with a local credit union
Credit unions exist to improve their members' lives with financial services. In step with their motto of "People Helping People", credit unions across Ohio provide volunteers to visit classrooms and teach financial lessons using the MoneyAndStuff.info Education Toolkit. For more information on partnering with a credit union near you, visit the partner page or contact the Ohio Credit Union League via email or at 1-800-486-2917.
- Open a student-run credit union in your school
The program consists of opening a fully functioning credit union branch inside your school. Students are instructed on how to run the branch, which includes performing all duties - from accepting membership applications to processing deposits.
Benefits of a student-run credit union
- Provides students with hands-on experience in a financial setting.
- Creates a new generation of savers.
- Teaches lifelong employment skills.
- Provides excellent experience for college applications, scholarships, and resumes
- Expands upon the curriculum, i.e. math and business classes.
- Establishes a mutual partnership between two community organizations, credit unions and the school district.
- Contributes to the educational system.
- Establishes innovative financial products and services for youth.
Learn more and watch videos about real Student-Run Credit Unions
- Play the Finances 101 Game Online
Finances 101 is a free online 'Sim' game that teaches high school students about the financial demands of the real world.
- Order the Life After High School board game
Life After High School® is an educational and fun way to explore the financial responsibilities of adulthood in a classroom setting or at home! As players move around the game board, they learn about choices that will have an impact on their financial futures: job selection, higher education, residential living choices, car purchases, and monthly expenses.
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MoneyAndStuff.info helps educators and parents fulfill The Ohio Core – Personal Finance Requirements
Amended Substitute Senate Bill 311, as codified in Ohio Revised Code §3313.603(C)(6), requires integration of economics and financial literacy within social studies classes or another class. Ohio's credit unions saw a need for financial education before the Bill was passed and created MoneyAndStuff.info to assist educators with lesson plans and other classroom activities for kids and teens.
Click here for a PDF document containing additional information on the bill.
Amended Substitute Senate Bill 311, also known as the Ohio Core, requires integration of economics and financial literacy within social studies classes or another class. Listed below are frequently asked questions about financial literacy requirements under this law.
Specifically, the law specifies:
"Each school shall integrate the study of economics and financial literacy, as expressed in the social studies academic content standards adopted by the state board of education under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, into one or more existing social studies credits required under division (C)(6) of this section, or into the content of another class, so that every high school student receives instruction in those concepts. In developing the curriculum required by this paragraph, schools shall use available public-private partnerships and resources and materials that exist in business, industry, and through the centers for economics education at institutions of higher education in the state."
Ohio Dept. of Education Personal Finance Standards
The Ohio Department of Education's content standards include standards for personal financial education that lessons on MoneyAndStuff.info can help satisfy. Specifically, the Personal Financial Literacy section of the Family and Consumer Sciences Content Standards (Standard 3) requires that students must be able to "Demonstrate Personal Financial Literacy." Read Standard 3 here as a PDF. or view it on the Ohio Department of Education's website.
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