Economics teacher Greg Fisher finds that the best way to teach financial literacy is to help students actually create their own business [2]. He uses the following materials (presented here as PDFs) in his senior-year course at the California Academy of Math and Science, in Carson, California:
Overviews
Successful Investor Project Overview [3]
Curriculum Guide [4]
Classroom Handouts
Financial-Vocabulary Glossary [5]
Senior Class Project: Business Plan [7]
Rubrics
Business-Convention Rubric [9]
Business-Plan Rubric [10]
Final Group-Presentation Grading Guide [11]
Business Convention Judge's Worksheet [12]
Activity Sheets
Activity: Identifying Strong Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Opportunity [13]
Activity: Describe Your Business Opportunity [14]
Activity: Interests as Possible Business Opportunities [15]
Activity: Brainstorming for Business Ideas [16]
Activity: Getting the Feel of Your Business [17]
Classroom Presentation
Entrepreneurship presentation [18]
External Project Presentation
Successful Investor presentation [19]