Investing Money

Including investments in education and training

• Get Smarter About Money – This is web site of the Investor Education Fund and has many resources related to investing. CFEE helped develop these resources for the IEF.

• Money Instructor ­­- Money Instructor has created this website for kids as an introduction to investment.  There are many lessons about money appropriate for grades 3-12:  Some of the lessons are about stocks, bonds, interest, risk and return, return on investment, etc.

• Stock Market Game – Students can play a stock market game. Note that this site contains ads.

• Investor Centre – This is the web site of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada. The “Investor Centre” section has basic resources and info on investing.

• Fiscal Agents – This is the Fiscal Agents’ web site that has great online calculators to help with investment calculations.

• Basic Investing – U.S. site: This site is designed to teach kids about basic investing. It includes articles on several topics, e.g. stocks, bonds.  A free ebook on day trading can be downloaded. Investopedia sponsors it.

• CNN Money – U.S. site: This is a series of articles that address various investing topics. It is prepared by CNN Money.

• Game and Activities – U.S. site: This is a website that contains a number of lessons, games and activities that address a number of financial topics.

• The Money Game Program – U.S. site:  This is a very complete program created to teach all aspects of financial literacy. The Money Game® uses a very active style of teaching called accelerated learning. Participants do more than listen to the lessons…they act the lessons out. The cost is $299 for the ready to play game, or $99 for the PDF version.

Videos:

• Classroom Investing Lesson – Note there are ads on this site: A video depicting elementary classroom lesson on investing.