Lesson Plans/Activities Insurance Lesson Plans (good source!) http://www.theiei.org/box/ Debate Activities http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp304-03.shtml Business Debate Topics http://mgtclass.mgt.unm.edu/DelCampo/Past%20Courses/MGT306Fall2006/DEBATE%20TOPICS.doc Umps Fwat Activity (about supply/demand, investing in a company, etc.) Video/Story-- http://www.powellendowment.org/resources/publications/# Supplemental Materials-- http://www.vcee.org/umpsfwat.htm Marketing Lesson Plans http://www.marketingteacher.com/Lessonstore.htm Consumer Bingo consbingo.html Workplace Ethics Activity ethics1.html International Business Project: Planning an International Business Trip http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5687/ib1.html Ethics Internet Activity Lesson (Lahore American School) http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/sammiddlesch.html Using a Checkbook: A Simulated Project--by Wendy Davis (Nechako Valley Secondary School) http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5687/cheque.html Entrepreneur Career Packet http://www.ioes.org/res_info/career/career_packets/entrepreneurcareer/entrepreneur_career_packet1.html Entrepreneurship Classroom Activities http://www.entre-ed.org/_teach/activits.htm Entrepreneur Lesson Plan http://www.eduplace.com/activity/entre.html Entrepreneurship: Mind Your Own Business Lesson Idea http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson178.shtml Two American Entrepreneurs Lesson Plan http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/walker/walker.htm OTAN Lesson Plans--Vocational Business, Computers, English, Office http://www.otan.dni.us/cgi-bin/webdir.pl?dir=%2FLesson%20Plans%2FVocational Lesson Plans for Technology--by Florida Center for Instructional Technology (subject search for business or computing lesson plans) http://stormy.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/subject_search.html Lesson Plans: Teaching a Middle School Media Productions Class http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/1902/ Lesson Plans: Media Literacy (from advertising to news reporting) http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/MLTlesson.html Connections+ Consumer Credit Lesson Plans http://mcrel.org/connect/plus/credit.html Consumer Math Lesson Plans--by Nadyne Hick http://www.hol.edu/students/Projectsindex.html National Institute for Consumer Economics Lesson Plans http://www.emich.edu/public/coe/nice/minilesson.html Using Propaganda in Elections http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/SPProganda.htm Free Resources (to order or registration required) Tips for Life: An online Flash-based financial education program from American Century Investments. Teachers sign up as facilitators, set up a class, and it's all free! http://www.tipsforlife.net/ http://www.tipsforkids.com is a similar site for younger students Growing Your Money: Personal Financial tools (toolkit with instructor's guide and participant workbooks--160 pages!) http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/finance_tools.shtml Practical Money Skills (budgets, checking, credit, loans, etc.) Website with teacher's guide and worksheets printable from the internet) http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/teachers/ National Endowment for Financial Education HS Financial Planning Program: Toolkit with instructor's guide and student workbook that you can request by e-mail) http://www.nefe.org/pages/educational.html It's Your Move (Missouri realtors; consumer's real estate manuals with video) http://www.thecepe.org/IYM/IYM.htm Stock Market Simulators Visit the Economics Lesson Plans Page for a list of free online simulators. Other General Business/Consumer Education Links List of Careers Links http://oseda.missouri.edu/schoolweb/fairfax.k12.mo.us/Career.htm TeenVestor: Writing a Business Plan (good entrepreneurship information for teens) http://www.teenvestor.com/entrepreneurs/Bizplans/bizplans.htm Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing http://www.swcollege.com/mm/gitm/gitm.html Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing http://www.thomson.com/swcp/mm/gitm/gitm.html Teacher's Guide: Creating a Classroom Newspaper http://www.southam.com/calgaryherald/educa/CACNINTRO.html Teaching Media Literacy Resources http://http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/MLTresources.html Consumer Education Publications from the FTC http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs02.htm Eco-Marketing Projects http://www.landmark-project.com/eco-market.html NICE mini-lesson: How to complain and get results http://www.emich.edu/public/coe/nice/complain.html Writing a Consumer Complaint Letter (Consumer Action and Info Center of Hawaii; includes sample) http://www.consumerlaw.com/letter.html From Consumer Resource Handbook: Writing Complaints http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Services/Handbook/Handbook2.html#writing