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Finance

Planning, services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management.

This cluster is closely aligned to Business, Management and Administration. Please also review the resources listed there.

HOT SITES GENERAL DOCUMENTS AND LINKS COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS LESSONS AND CURRICULUM EXAMPLES

HOT SITES
Practical Money Skills A complete curriculum for business and finance from Visa. Source: Visa

20/20 Green An interactive venture into finance and money management from ING, an EdGate partner. Source: ING

Planet Orange Geared for Grade 4 through 8, this is an excellent resource for teaching basic math, money and banking. Source: ING Direct

GENERAL OCCUPATION INFORMATION
Career Cluster: Finance A description of this career cluster. Source: Careerclusters

Contact Information and Background Documents This provides some background information on this career cluster. Source: Careerclusters.org

Indiana Business, Management and Finance Information and description of jobs available in these fields. Source: ICPAC

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS
Chesterton HS Curriculum A sample of course offerings for high schoolers interested in business and finance. Source: Chesterton HS

Florida Business Technology Curriculum Framework This covers both Business and Computer Skills, Accounting and Business Management. Source: Florida Dept. of Education

State by State Frameworks Not specifically for Finance, these links will take you to the Career and Technical Frameworks for each state. Source: Khake

Tennessee Standards The core standards and competency profiles for business in Tennessee. Source: Tennessee Dept. of Ed

LESSONS AND CURRICULUM EXAMPLES
GENERAL
EconEdLink Lessons Several hundred lessons on finance, economics and banking. Source: National Council on Economic Education

Exploring the Finance Cluster Jobs in the finance career cluster involve providing services for financial and investment planning, banking insurance, and business financial management. Source: Glencoe

ACCOUNTING
Accounting Handouts for Introductory Accounting Several resources to help you teach accounting. Source: BBOInc

Accounting Lessons A collection of lessons from Tonya Skinner. Source: Tonya Skinner

Accounting Monopoly A fun way to teaching some accounting principles.

Connections+ Several lessons on supply and demand, credit, value of money. Source: McREL

Lyman's Accounting Learning Activities Several lessons, games and activities to teach accounting. Source: Carl Lyman

Great Ideas for Accounting Offers accounting professors the opportunity to share some techniques that have been successful in the classroom. Source: Southwestern Publishing

Investments and Future Value 2. In this lesson, students compute and compare the future values of different investments. Using a spreadsheet program. They learn to approximate when an investment will double when given a specific rate of interest. Source: Jane Neal

How Can a Bank Pay Your Interest? Students will learn through operating a calculator how interest is figured. Source: Kim Sparks

Teaching Basic Banking Principles- An understanding of banking is important for our students as we face the monetary situation of the coming years. This lesson is a good tool for getting them started. Source: Brian Johnson

The Stock Market- The purpose of this activity is to help students to have at least a simple understanding of the stock market, and also see how many factors can influence the market. Source: Jeff Fletcher

The Stock Market Game- The purpose of this activity is to give students a working knowlege and vocabulalry of the stock market. Source: Janet Westgard

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Last Updated: Monday, October 10, 2005