Featured 5-28-2014: One Hen

One Hen provides educators with flexible curriculum resources designed to help students develop financial responsibility, personal initiative, global awareness, and giving back.

The motivation for One Hen comes from the children’s book, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference. A young Ghanaian boy named Kojo who uses a small loan to buy one hen, which in turn lays eggs and hatches more hens, until he eventually becomes the largest chicken farmer in the country.

 

One Hen challenges kids in grades K-8 through a series of interactive lesson plans, an engaging storybook, and a website of games and activities. Teams of students face the challenges of running their own real-world small businesses. With the profits they earn, they repay their loans and make a donation to a non-profit organization of their choice, helping to meet a local or global need.

 

 

In the process, the young entrepreneurs learn necessary skills in business math, personal financial literacy, and social entrepreneurship.

 

One Hen is a non-profit organization whose mission is to "empower all kids to become social entrepreneurs who make a difference for themselves and the world.”

 

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COD - 6/20/2012 - Jump$tart [Economics]

Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards, and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.

Founded in 1995, Jump$tart is now a partnership of about 150 national organizations and entities from the corporate, non-profit, academic, government, and other sectors. These coalition partners include such familiar organizations as Bank of America, Capital One, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Equifax, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Education Association, and many more. These partner organizations generally conduct and/or support financial education or offer financial education tools and materials.

Jump$tart also includes a network of 49 affiliated state coalitions.  Each state coalition is an independently governed and operated non-profit organization, united with the national Jump$tart Coalition through an affiliation agreement and a desire to advance Jump$tart’s mission of financial astuteness for students. Jump$tart's state coalitions are operated predominately by volunteers.

Jump$tart’s strategic role is to provide resources that complement and enhance the individual and collective work of its partners and to take on activities that advance the financial literacy effort on behalf of all of its partners. Jump$tart’s online Clearinghouse is the nation’s most comprehensive collection of financial education resources suitable for students in pre-K through college, reviewed for appropriateness, and based on the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education.

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COD - 6/19/2012 - EconEdLink [Economics]

EconEdLink is a leading source of online economic and personal finance lessons and resources for educators, students, and after-school providers.

EconEdLink provides classroom-tested, web-based economic and personal finance lesson materials for K-12 students and their teachers. Teachers can use as many of the nearly 750 lessons as they would like and as often as they would like.

All of the EconEdLink lessons are web-based and free to everyone. They are targeted at Kindergarten through grade 12 (ages 5-18). Each lesson, designed to be delivered in a variety of formats and classroom settings, includes a student's version as well as a teacher's version.

The Professional Development page features three types of resources to help you become a better teacher and get credit for PD:

• Use the Events calendar to see upcoming events from the Council for Economic Education and other educational organizations.
• The Multimedia Library contains videos and presentations to further your professional development.
• The Council for Economic Education presents free professional development Workshops for teachers all around the country.

Watch a video overview of EconEdLink

MyEconEdLink is an optional feature that lets you save lessons, take notes, and receive updates specific to the grades you teach. Select your state, and EconEdLink can tell you which lessons and state standards match best.

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