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Strand 2

Students will understand the factors that influence personal financial priorities and learn how to make rational decisions.
  • College: Where am I going to go?
    In this lesson atudents will use the concept of opportunity cost in evaluating choices to attend college or go directly to work, and identify the opportunity costs connected with post-secondary education.
  • Finance in the Classroom Teacher Resources
    This site has incredible resources to help educators teach financial literacy concepts. You will find lesson plans, activities, books, videos and more.
  • High School Financial Planning Program
    These free resources (instructor's manual, student workbook, activities and tests) provide opportunities to apply a financial planning process to personal goal setting, budgeting, use of credit, saving and investing. They will help you teach financial responsibility.
  • National Budget Simulation
    In this lesson students will serve as an Economic Advisor to the President, who must increase military spending out of political necessity, but needs to reduce spending in other programs to limit the deficit. Conflicting goals create a need for compromise and tradeoffs to create a national budget, while trying to remain under deficit limits.
  • The Mint
    Northwestern Mutual sponsors this site for economics education. Covers topics such as starting a business, government spending, saving, budgeting, and the role of individuals in the economy. Has lesson plans, quizzes, and games.


UEN logo http://www.uen.org - in partnership with Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and Utah System of Higher Education (USHE).  Send questions or comments to USBE Specialist - Breckon  Heywood and see the Financial Literacy website. For general questions about Utah's Core Standards contact the Director - Jennifer  Throndsen.

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