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• Removed out of date chart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 is the Partnerships and Adoption Manager for Next Gen Personal Finance’s midwest region. He brings his experience as a former teacher, curriculum designer, and sales and marketing professional to state organizations and school districts in supporting the implementation of their personal financial education efforts. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and earned his teaching credential from Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota. He proudly taught at two rural high schools in Wisconsin before transitioning to curriculum design at NGPF, and is now excited to be on the front lines in delivering the best possible financial education in the midwest. He and his wife have three beautiful daughters, each of which inspire him to share the impact of being sound financial stewards both at home and as lifelong learners.