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Personal & Family Finance (1 Year Course)
eDynamic Learning provides teachers with a comprehensive digital curriculum that includes lessons, reflective discussions, activities, assessments, podcasts, and more. Lessons incorporate engaging narratives, videos, slideshows, diagrams, and flashcards. They also include a built-in support toolbar which provides a variety of literacy tools and enables text to be translated into dozens of languages for English Language Learners. Teachers also receive a Pacing Guide, answer keys, a gradebook and the ability to customize the course to include teacher or districtauthored lessons, activities, assessments and Knowledge Matters simulations!
In the Personal and Family Finance course students will learn how to spend and save money wisely, and key financial concepts around taxes, credit, and money management. They’ll discover how education, career choices, and financial planning can lead them in the right direction to making life simpler, steadier, and more enjoyable.
Unit Topics
» American Families and the Economy
» Our Economic World
» Financial Responsibility
» Financial Institutions
» Personal Taxation
Knowledge Matters Personal Finance Simulation
» Insurance, Wills, and Contracts
» Saving and Investing
» Consumer Credit
» Managing Personal and Family Finances
» Consumer Choices
Knowledge Matters simulations allow students to experience real business scenarios and can continually refine their results to optimize outcomes and increase profitability. They offer an interactive, risk-free, game-based environment where students can see the impact of their choices immediately.
Virtual Business - Personal Finance is the highest used simulation in high schools today! Students will experience spending habits such as locating an apartment, finding a job, getting a bank account, paying taxes, and more! The simulation exposes students to relevant tax, law, and regulatory information, tax forms, Affordable Care Act requirements, current health insurance offerings, and career
Lessons Include
» Budgeting & Saving
» Balancing a Checking Account
» Getting a Credit Card
» Fixing Your Credit
» Education & Advancement
» Paying Your Taxes
» Intro to Investing
» Time Management and Health
» Finding a Job
» Finding an Apartment
» Buying a Car
» Shopping
» Risk vs. Return
» Diversification
» Investing for Retirement
» Buying a Home
» Insurance
Meet the Simulations
From the elevator pitch, to securing financing, to operating a profitable business, this sim teaches all the keys to successful entrepreneurship.
From debits and credits to forensic accounting, the subject comes to life when students learn through a business they run.
In focused lessons, students control pricing, staffing, products and more. In the capstone project, they run the whole show.
Starting your own restaurant is a common dream. Here students do it in the safety of a virtual world while learning general business concepts.
Developed with the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising this sim covers trend spotting, to design, to mark-ups and mark-downs!
Developed with the support of the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, this sim gives students a realistic look at the inside workings of the global hospitality business.
Live out ten financial lifetimes in an hour! From banking, to credit, to investment - this is the #1 personal finance curriculum in the U.S.
Your students will learn business and marketing in a context that is sure to attract them to class - the exciting world of sports and entertainment.
Your students will learn business and marketing in a context that is sure to attract them to class - the exciting world of sports and entertainment.