It's easy to overlook some of our great activities that can enhance your students’ learning experience. Discover why MATH, DATA CRUNCH, READ, RESEARCH, SOFT SKILLS, and ECON activities are hidden gems waiting to be explored.

MATH Activities: Making Personal Finance Tangible

What’s Included?

• Learn It Videos: Engaging video explanations of key personal finance concepts like tax brackets, monthly payments, exponential growth, the rule of 72, and regression analysis
• Practice It Videos: Hands-on practice videos to reinforce learning walk students through a practice problem from beginning to end
• Problem Sets: Real-world math problems that solidify understanding, perfect for sub lesson plans

Why Choose MATH Activities? These activities are designed to be completed in about 20 minutes, making them perfect for quick, yet impactful learning sessions. By integrating these activities, you provide students with practical math skills essential for personal finance.

Check out this hidden gem: MATH: Rule of 72

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DATA CRUNCH: Quick Insights with Depth

What’s Included?

• Graph Analysis: Visual data representations with five guiding questions
• Depth of Knowledge Questions: Progressing from basic to higher level critical thinking questions to encourage deeper understanding

Why Choose DATA CRUNCH Activities? Ideal as bell ringers, these 10-minute activities are regularly updated with the most current information, ensuring students engage with relevant and timely data

Check out this hidden gem: DATA CRUNCH: What’s Been the Best Investment since 1926?

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READ: Engaging with Real-World Articles

What’s Included?

• Article Reading: Hand-picked articles on budgeting, investing, types of credit, and managing credit
• Guided Questions: The included questions help guide students towards the desired learning outcome of the article

Why Choose READ Activities? In about 20 minutes, students gain valuable insights from real-world scenarios, enhancing their comprehension and analytical skills.

Check out this hidden gem: READ: Personal Loans

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SOFT SKILLS: Building Essential Life Skills

What’s Included?

• Role-Playing Scenarios: Realistic high school and workplace scenarios to practice soft skills
• Focus Areas: Critical soft skills like communication, conflict resolution, accepting criticism and more!

Why Choose SOFT SKILLS Activities? These 20-minute in-class activities are crucial for preparing students for real-life situations, making them valuable for career readiness.

Check out this hidden gem: SOFT SKILLS: Accepting Criticism

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RESEARCH: Encouraging Independent Learning

What’s Included?

• Research Topics: From bankruptcy to credit protection and improving credit scores
• Self-Paced Guidance: Activities designed for independent research, taking between 10 to 45 minutes

Why Choose RESEARCH Activities? These activities empower students to explore and learn at their own pace, fostering independent thinking and research skills.

Check out this hidden gem: RESEARCH: FAFSA Deadlines

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ECON: Connecting Finance to Economics

What’s Included?

• Economic Concepts: Inflation, exchange rates, shrinkflation, risk, loss aversion and more!
• Activity Format: take a guided tour of important economics concepts completed in about 20-minute

Why Choose ECON Activities? Expand your students’ understanding of personal finance by connecting it to broader economic principles. You can browse all of these, sorted by unit, in our Econ Collection.

Check out this hidden gem: ECON: Inflation, Spending, and Wages

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By incorporating these diverse activities into your curriculum, you can enhance student engagement and understanding across a variety of key personal finance and economic topics. Visit individual unit pages to find these resources and start integrating them into your lessons today!

About the Author

Dave Martin

Dave joins NGPF with 15 years of teaching experience in math and computer science. After joining the New York City Teaching Fellows program and earning a Master's degree in Education from Pace University, his teaching career has taken him to New York, New Jersey and a summer in the north of Ghana. Dave firmly believes that financial literacy is vital to creating well-rounded students that are prepared for a complex and highly competitive world. During what free time two young daughters will allow, Dave enjoys video games, Dungeons & Dragons, cooking, gardening, and taking naps.

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