The world of personal finance is ever changing, and with that, so are our activities! Details regarding insurance, taxes, college costs, interest rates, and geographic information have all been updated in some of NGPF’s best resources. When those things are updated, we make sure to go through the question sets and narration to make sure the activities flow better than ever when you use them in the classroom. Take a look to see what’s new!

Recently Updated Activities

• MOVE: What Determines Your Insurance Premium
• Updated answer key with better resources to match the factors in the activity
  
  
• DATA CRUNCH: How Old Are Most Taxpayers
• Updated data from IRS
• Rewrote some questions to analyze new patterns in the data
  
  
• CREATE: Monthly College Budget
• Updated to reflect current estimated college-related costs
• Streamlined some budget items to make budgeting easier
  
  
• COMPARE: Making Credit Decisions
• Gamified by adding a team competition element
  
  
• CALCULATE: High Rate v Debt Snowball
• Removed out of date chart
• Updated calculator resource with more functionality and better user interface
• Updated narration and questions
  
  
• COMPARE: Select a City to Live In
• Added a new resource to gather city data
• Rewrote questions to apply to the data gathered
• Changed structure to allow individual work followed by whole class collaboration

Feel like you could use a brush up on these topics yourself? Check out NGPF’s upcoming Virtual PDs!

About the Author

Ryan Wood

Ryan grew up with and maintains a love for learning. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a degree in Business Administration and worked in sports marketing for a number of years. After living in Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, and Minnesota, the call of education eventually brought Ryan back to his home state of Wisconsin where he was a Business and Marketing teacher for three years. In his free time he likes to spend time with his wife and daughter, play basketball, read, and go fishing. Now with NGPF, Ryan is excited to help teachers lead the most important course their students will ever take.