Financial Literacy Skills
Use these resources to supplement our Life Skills: Financial Literacy Skills curriculum.
PowerPoint Presentations
These PowerPoint presentations were developed by CIMC to accompany our Life Skills: Financial Literacy Skills curriculum. To view a presentation online, select the link below. To download a file to your hard drive, right-click the link. If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer that will allow you to use these presentations in the classroom. The PowerPoint files are available as either .ppt files for PowerPoint 97-2003 or .pptx files for PowerPoint 2007 - please make sure you are downloading the appropriate file.
- Unit 1: Managing Money
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007 - Unit 2: Understanding Banking
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007 - Unit 3: Using Credit Wisely
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007 - Unit 4: Understanding Taxes and Insurance
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007 - Unit 5: Understanding Investing and Home Ownership
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007 - Unit 6: Understanding Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft
PowerPoint 97-2003
PowerPoint 2007
Word Puzzles
These word puzzles were created with PuzzleView software and can printed for the students' use or completed online. To print a puzzle, click the printer icon or select File > Print from the menu. To print the solution, select Solve > Whole Puzzle from the menu, close the "View Results" window that pops up, then click the printer icon or select File > Print from the menu.
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Online Resources
Website addresses were accurate and all content on linked sites was appropriate on the date each page was published. However, websites change; please be sure to confirm each site before use.
General Resources
- Oklahoma State Department of Education's Financial Literacy Page - includes PASS skills, Passport Cumulative Record, and glossary
- Shryk - Partnering with CIMC to provide online Financial Literacy education free to Oklahoma Schools
Unit 1: Managing Money
- 66 Ways to Save Money
- America’s Career InfoNet
- America’s Job Bank
- FCCLA Career Connection page
- FDIC Consumer News
- Guidance Division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
(Look for the “Choose Your Path to Success” career discovery program) - Occupational Outlook Quarterly online
- U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections page
Unit 2: Understanding Banking
Unit 3: Using Credit Wisely
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- USA Today Personal Finance Calculators
- Bankrate.com Calculators
- Financial Tools
- Federal Trade Commission
- Dave Ramsey "Stupid Tax" Stories
- AnnualCreditReport.com
- The "Payoff Push"
- The "Debt Snowball"
- Department of Labor
- Oklahoma Landlord and Tenant Acts (PDF file)
- How the Young can Get Rich
- What are Your Rights and Duties as a Tenant?
- Teen Safety on the Internet
- Safe Blogging Tips for Teens
- Kids Rules for Online Safety
- Safe Blogging Tips
- Planet Feedback
- Federal Trade Commission: ID Theft Consumer Publications
- Federal Trade Commission: ID Theft Laws
- FTC Identity Theft Affidavit (PDF file)
- Sample Identity Theft Complaint Letters
- Identity Theft Resource Center Video on Identity Theft
Unit 4: Understanding Taxes and Insurance
Unit 5: Understanding Investing and Home Ownership
Unit 6: Understanding Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft
Updated 08.13.08

