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ABCs of Personal Finance
	Help individuals take control of their financial future. Topics include making money; buying & insuring a car & house; planning for kids, college, life insurance, and retirement; and investing. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.


Be the "E": Entrepreneurship Activity Guide
	This entrepreneurship curriculum is designed to empower youth with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets to meet the challenges of work and community in the 21st century. Includes teacher’s guide. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Bling Bling Grows a Tree

This PowerPoint presentation discusses the importance of saving. Contact Kristie at MACUA for a copy of presentation.

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Budgeting Exercise

This budget worksheet will allow students to see how far their money will go in the real world.

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Building Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future
	Offers introductory guidance to individuals and families seeking help to develop a plan for building personal wealth by providing an overview of personal wealth-building strategies. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Car Buying-Credit Exercise

Which vehicle would you choose?

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Consumer Savvy
	Help youth become responsible consumers in today's dynamic marketplace. This series includes activity books and teacher’s guide. Titles include The Consumer in Me, Consumer Wise, and Consumer Roadmap. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Credit Exercise

This presentation discusses credit and loans. Use with the car buying exercise.

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Credit Management

Help students avoid the "credit card trap" with these helpful tips.

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Don't Borrow What You Can't Repay

Children borrow money from each other every day and learn at a very early age to trust some people and not others. In this lesson, students decide what behaviors make a person creditworthy and whom they would trust to repay loans.

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Don't Expect Somthing for Nothing

Good decisions require a clear understanding of alternatives. Students must learn to make choices among alternatives in order to use their income or resources wisely.

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Finance 101

This PowerPoint presentation discusses needs vs. wants, budgeting, costs of car ownership, credit, and checking.

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Financial Champions
	Youth will learn the difference between needs and wants, ways to use and save money, credit, advertising influences, consumer decision making and how to select financial services. Includes teacher’s guide. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.


How to Establish, Use, and Protect Your Credit
	A guide that explains what lenders look for, how to establish credit, protecting credit, improving poor credit, divorce and credit, and more. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Loan Application

This exercise gives students practice completing a loan application.

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Map Your Financial Future

This activity is designed to help students clarify how they feel about their short-term and long-term goals and to understand how this contributes to the success of personal financial planning.

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Master Your Future
	This VHS presents real teens facing real life money management challenges. Comes with a teacher's guide. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check it out from the library.


Money on the Bookshelf
	Designed to teach children money management through reading children's books and accompanying activities. Includes 12 children's books and teacher's guides. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check it out from the library.


Money Smart: An Adult Education Program
	Contains ten modules including checking, borrowing, credit, saving, and more. Available in two binders or on a CD. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Needs vs. Wants

Help students understand the difference between "needs" and "wants."

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Next Generation: Insuring Your Future
	An entertaining and education VHS aimed at helping high school students understand the role of life and health insurance and financial planning. Comes with a teacher's guide. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check it out.

Plan and Learn How Your Money Can Grow

This presentation discusses the steps to open your own business, needs vs. wants, and budgeting.

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Practical Money Skills for Life
	This presentation covers decision making, budgeting, credit and credit cards, living on one's own, and saving. Comes with a teacher's guide. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check it out from the library.

Progressions: Make the Leap to Checks and Balances

This handbook guides students through the world of personal checking. It includes practice checks, deposit slips, and register allowing students to balance a check book.

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Rock Concert Game

Help students understand the basics of budgeting and business with this fun and exciting lesson.

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Save & Invest

Teach students why and how to save and the importance of setting financial goals.

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Saving and Investing

Introduce students to the basics of saving and investing and help them understand the importance of planning for their financial future.

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Savings & Income

Teach students the different ways to earn money and the value of saving.

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Savings Cans

Teach students the value of saving, sharing, and spending, while making their own save, share, and spend banks. This is a great presentation for 4-6 year olds.

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School House Rock: Money Rock
	Learning about money is easy when you sing along with Money Rock. This VHS tape discusses savings and loans; allowances; taxes; investments, stocks, and bonds; barter and trade; debt; and checks. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check it out.

Start Saving Young

This lesson provides information to students as to what is meant by saving and provides the opportunity for making saving choices. Students are encouraged to set goals and decide how they will save in order to achieve their goals.

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The Everything Kids Money Book
	This book tells kids how to make money, save money, and spend money. Includes historical information about currency and fun money-based games to use in presentations. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.


The Peanut Butter and Jelly Game
	This book helps children in grades K-3 with today's tough choices about money. They'll see the benefits of being wise consumers, as opposed to impulse buyers, in language every youngster understands. Contact Debbie Kruckenberg at 701-250-3924.

The Penny

Teach students the value of a penny and other coins adding up to $1. Email Kristie Heit at kheit@midamericacua.coop for the PowerPoint file.

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The Totally Awesome Money Book for Kids
	For kids ages 10 to 17, this fun and fact-filled book includes cartoons, quizzes, games, riddles, stories, and short chapters about the basics of saving, investing, borrowing, working, and taxes. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.


To Be a Have or Have Not
	Covers savings, spending, credit, insurance, and other important personal finance issues. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out a copy of the VHS and accompanying PowerPoint presentation.


Value of a Dollar: Teaching Your Preschool Child
	Teach young kids how to manage money with this PowerPoint presentation. The CD includes speaker notes, activities for students, and a preparation checklist. Contact Debbie at MACUA to check out.

Who Wants to be a Zillionaire?

During this presentation, students will learn what it means to really want something and to really need something. They will learn what money can do and how to be in control of their own money.

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You May See it Everyday, But What Do You Know About Money?

Teach students the history of money and how it is made. Email Kristie Heit at kheit@midamericacua.coop for the PowerPoint file.

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