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• StocksQuest An educational and interactive Web site offering free global stock games, especially for educators and contest organizers. Integrated into this very realistic global stock market simulation are lesson plans, stock guides, and online investing resources.
  
  
• The U.S. Mint's Site for Kids The awesome history of coins and how the mint makes money. Interactive clubhouse for kids and teachers includes cartoons, history, and news.
  
• Escape from Knab Travelers stranded in the Cyberspace world of Knab must earn money and invest it wisely to get back home.
  
• FDIC: Learning Bank The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the US governmental agency that insures bank depositors if their bank fails. This site is designed to help kids know how this agency works and why it is important to have.
  
• Currency Gallery See what paper money looks like in different countries of the world.
  
• Learn to Save Activities and lessons to help kids learn how to manage money.
  
• Clown Club Savings SAFE Federal Credit Union's savings page where you can learn more about saving money;
  
• Consumer Education for Teens Consumer advice specially designed for teens. Includes sections about CD clubs and calling cards.
  
• MoneyCents: Making Money Make Sense for Kids Has some basic facts about the economy, history of money, starting a business, saving money, spending money.
  
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing Interactive games, money counting exercises, and trivia questions about money.
  
• Young Money Online Game Show Play the game to learn about finance and win prizes. Requires Shockwave.
  
• FAQs about United States Paper Currency All you ever wanted to know about US paper money: how it is produced, whose picture gets chosen, how much is printed, trivia questions; from the US Dept. of the Treasury.
  
• Money Kit Do-it-Yourself for Kids A simple diagram that shows how to save money and keep track of what you spend.
  
• AP Macroeconomics Review Provides review material for the AP Macroeconomics Exam in .pdf format.
  
• The Universal Currency Converter How many Mexican pesos equal one U.S. dollar? How much does one Canadian dollar equal in U.S. money? This online calculator will tell you what the money in one country is worth in the money of another country.
  
• Savings Bonds for Kids Explains what a U.S. savings bond is and why people buy them. Also tells where they can be bought, who can owned them, and how they can be traded for cash.
  
• KidStock Learn all about stocks and investing.
  
• Economics Contains information, activities, links, and interactive quizzes on the basic concepts of economics.
  
• The Young Investor Web Site Articles about how a kid can save money, start a business, and get some questions about money answered. Flash required.
  
• Department of Treasury Kid's Page Paw print trail to learn about cash, money, savings bonds.
  
• Just For the Fun of It A few quick sights and sounds of money, literally.
  
• YoungBiz Information on business, investing, and entrepreneurship for teenagers.
  
• Kids Can Save Fantasy story with activities to encourage kids to pay themselves first, start saving early, and stick with a plan. In English and French.
  
• Junior Achievement Junior Achievement's purpose is to educate young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics and be workforce ready. One part of this site is a stock simulations and competitions page that helps students learn about the stock market.
  
• Wall Street Wizard Site allows teens to sign for an e-mail newsletter that provide them with information on investing.
  
• SmartStart Presented by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which has a savings account program they are marketing, this site also has informative games, advice on how to manage an allowance, advice on how to save.
  
• Lemonade Stand A business simulation designed to teach upper elementary school students how to start and manage a business. Registration (free) required.
  
• Kids' Money Q & A Children ask questions and get answers on how to make money.
  
• Allowance Statistics How much money kids get, according to a non-scientific poll; by age and amount received weekly.
  
• My Parents Won't Give Me Money for College ParentSoup advises a teenager on what to do when parents won't help support a college education.
  
• The Liberty Bill Project Children across the country are asking Congress to put an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution on the back of U.S. one dollar bills.
  
• Salomon Smith Barney Young Investors Network Salomon Smith Barney's page designed to help kids learn the basics of investing. Registration required, but is free.
  
• Savings Calculator Shows how much money you need to save every day, week, and month to reach a long-term savings goal.
  
• FBLA-PBL Online Home page for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) which is a nonprofit educational association of students preparing for careers in business; links businesspeople, parents, and junior high and high school students in local chapters.
  
• IRS Tax Interactive Educates teenagers about the U.S. tax system, the effect of taxes on their day-to-day lives, and new electronic ways to file tax returns.
  
• Kids and Money, a Newsletter for Young People A newsletter for young people and their parents about managing money, from the North Dakota State University Extension Service.
  
• The Stock Market Game An interactive educational program that takes place over ten weeks. Designed for grades 4 through 12 and to be used in a school setting, but others may participate. A small registration fee may be required; participants register through their state or country coordinator, listed on the site. Sponsored by the non-profit Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education and endorsed by the National Council on Economic Education.
  
• Credit Rules Bookmark Simple rules about your obligations in using credit, from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
  
• The Magic Penny Enterprises Helps kids and teens learn how to earn, spend, save, and invest their money to see it grow. Requires free registration.
  
• Tax Interactive An online 'zine for understanding taxes. It is geared towards teens and produced by the US Internal Revenue Service and the American Bar Association Section on Taxation.
  
• Kids Resume Maker A form for kids to fill out that shows them what their resume would look like based on the skills and aptitudes they have right now.
  
• STAWRS - Simplified Tax and Wage Reporting System Kids Page Takes kids through the process of starting a business, paying taxes, and filing reports.
  
• Rock the Cause Online game designed to help kids learn about finances and managing money.
  
• KidsBank.Com Sovereign Bank of New England presents a tutorial for kids designed to explain the basics of such banking services as how savings, interest, and checking works.
  
• The Kids Career Place Designed to develop career awareness while building self-esteem. Free online games plus 3 stories from the I Believe in Me series with questions related to each story.
  
• Change Maker An educational game where the player must calculate the change given for a money purchase. Currencies from the United States, Canada, Austraulia, United Kingdom, and Mexico are available.
  
• Investing Online stock game helps young people learn how the stock market works.
  
• MMBC Schoolnet: Commerce An illustrated guide to the history and development of free trade in the western world.
  
• PatientInvestor.com PatientInvestor.com is the complete educational guide to investing targeted at teenagers and other young adults.
  
• The Business of Babysitting How to be a great babysitter and earn money doing it.
  
• Investing for Kids Designed by kids for kids. It examines stocks, bonds, mutual funds and the like. It teaches the principles of saving and investing. It also includes a stock game.
  
• Young Americans Bank and Education Foundation Programs are designed to provide children with knowledge about the free enterprise system. It includes online tutorials as well as information about summer camp and other programs.
  
• The AIE Savings Calculator Find out how much a dollar saved today will be worth 25 years from now.
  
• Junior Achievement of Arizona Educates and inspires young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics.
  
• FleetKids Fleet Financial Group presents a site which has games that teach how to run a business, manage money, set financial goals, and budget. Registration is required, but is free and there is a privacy clause. Games can be played individually, but signing up schools and teachers is encouraged.
  
• In the Mix Online companion to the PBS special "Financial Literacy: On The Money" includes resources, activities, information, advice, video clips, and polls.