You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet: Hands-On Financial Literacy Simulations for Teens and Young Adults

You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet is geared towards teachers, parents, and organizations who desire to teach personal finance skills in engaging and practical ways. This book is designed to help students learn essential financial literacy lessons through hands-on simulations, allowing them to problem solve while moving around the classroom. Several industry experts contributed to these activities, making them some of the most robust financial literacy simulations on the market. Each simulation is also accompanied by student reflection handouts. Through the You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet activities, students will: * Participate in Mock Job interviews * Learn to Shop for Careers * Dig Yourself out of Credit Card Debt * Play a Financial Fraud Game * Go Apartment Hunting * Buy a House * Artistically Construct Retirement Graphs * Use Web-Based Activities to Chart Performances of Individual Stocks Vs. Index Funds * Play an Insurance Board Game * Start a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Sell Products and Services *Note: limit one copy per teacher