Personal Finance Lessons

As I posted earlier, in Economics we have started our extremely important unit on personal finance. I wanted to share with you the youtube video that hits home the best with my students about paying off credit cards. This video is quick, but so effective. After watching my students were in shock, which ultimately was my goal.

My personal finance prezi has a link to this and many other great video clips. I usually take over a week to go through the whole prezi. It contains information on saving, budgeting, credit cards, credit score, identity theft, investments and retirement.

I also am having the students create their own video song parody's again for this unit. I did this last semester and it was a huge success. We published those videos to youtube. Here are some examples, like Give Me The Credit Boy,  and Someday-Retirement Plans.

I also have found some great infographics that I am having the students analyze to learn more about the habits of Americans.  I have posted these below.

This is one about the personal finance lessons that the Simpsons teach. 

Infographic on the state of Health Care in America. 

New graduates guide to personal finance.

A look at what healthcare procedures actually cost. 

Infographic on Student Loan Information 

Infographic on American Spending Habits. 

Infographic on parents talking personal finance with their kids. 

Infographic on saving money.