This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson explains the yield curve. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 136 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why when you get your money matters as much as how much money. Present and future value are also discussed. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 177 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson looks at why yields go down when prices go up. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 134 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson looks at the upper bound on forward settlement price. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 101 of 184]

This 5-minute video lesson explains how credit default swaps can be used as hedges, insurance or side-bets. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 166 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]

This lesson introduces students to the concept of financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies, credit unions, investment companies, and more. First, use the briefing (found in Task 1) to teach students about this concept. Then, instruct students to develop informational charts about financial institutions. This briefing is a part of the Introduction to Finance Course Guide. To download it, visit mbastatesconnection.mbaresearch.org and select "Course Guides" under "Curriculum and Instruction."

The Gen i Revolution consists of sixteen interactive missions in which students complete a variety of activities to help the learn important personal finance concepts.

Students listen to the story, Glo Goes Shopping. They learn about saving, spending, decision making and opportunity cost. They learn to use a decision-making grid to make decisions. Mathematics skills include learning about rows and columns in a grid.

The holiday season often marks the launch of toy and canned food drives in schools. Use this activity to deepen students understanding of those being served and the dynamics of poverty in the United States.

It's Your Paycheck! is designed for use in high school personal finance classes. The curriculum contains three sections: "Know Your Dough," "KaChing!" and "All About Credit." The lessons in each of these sections employ various teaching strategies to engage students so that they have opportunities to apply the concepts being taught. Each lesson includes black-line masters of the handouts and visuals needed to teach the lesson.

Students learn about saving, savings goals, interest, borrowing and opportunity cost by reading Less Than Zero. Students use a number line and a line graph to track spending and borrowing in the story.

In this 60 minute lesson, students will be able to:

Investigate other types of insurance, such as life insurance, long term disability, travel, extended warranties, cell phone, and pet insurance, and determine if they are worthwhile expenses
Describe the cost and impact of larger societal forms of insurance, like Social Security

In this 60 minute lesson, students will be able to:

Understand what confirmation bias is and how it can influence your decision making
Identify types of overconfidence and give examples that show up in everyday life
Explore strategies to avoid confirmation bias and overconfidence

In this 105 minute lesson, students will be able to
Understand what hedonic adaptation is and how it influences our financial decisions
Explain the connection between our happiness levels and how much we earn and spend
Identify steps someone can take to counteract the impact of hedonic adaptation

In this 45 minute lesson, students will be able to:

Explain the commitment they are agreeing to when enlisting in the military
Understand the requirements they need to meet to enlist in the five branches of the military
Identify the various steps needed to enlist in the military, including taking the ASVAB exam and going to a MEPS
Understand the benefits of joining an ROTC program

In this 45 minute lesson, students will be able to:

Explain what types of career opportunities are available to them through the military and how they compare to civilian occupations
Interpret different components of a Leave and Earnings Statement (LES)
Identify the challenges of transitioning from a military career to a civilian career and steps they can take to make the process easier