Teen Financial Literacy

Money As You Grow

Website: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/money-as-you-grow/

The CFPB hosts Money As You Grow, a dedicated webpage for parents and caregivers that identifies key stages of childhood financial development. The webpage offers practical, age-appropriate activities and conversation starters to help parents and caregivers encourage their kids to develop positive financial knowledge, skills, habits, and attitudes.

Money Smart: A Financial Education Program

Website: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/consumers/money-smart/index.html

The FDIC Money Smart financial education program can help people of all ages enhance their financial skills and create positive banking relationships. First released in 2001 and regularly updated since then.

Tips for Teens

Website: themint.org

http://www.themint.org/teens/saving.html

This website, endorsed by ALA, introduces teens to earning, saving, spending, owing, tracking, giving, investing, and safeguarding through short articles and online games. A separate glossary is a nice reference for unfamiliar financial terms.

Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club

Website: Genius Brands International, Inc.

http://www.smckids.com

Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club is an animated series that features Warren Buffett as a mentor to a group of entrepreneurial kids whose adventures lead them to encounter financial and business problems to solve. The program teaches the basics of good financial decision making and some of the basic lessons of starting a business. Young learners can watch the episodes, read comics play companion games, and learn online.