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

by Nick Erskine (Author)

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

Author Biography

Nick Erskine owns and operates Nick Erskine Financial Education Consulting, LLC. His mission is to spread his financial literacy simulations and expertise to students, teachers, districts, and organizations throughout the United States and beyond. He was a high school economics and personal finance teacher for several years in California and Texas. Nick has a master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific University, a master's degree in mass communication/journalism from Texas State University, and a bachelor's degree in social science from Azusa Pacific University. He currently resides in Austin, Texas. Check out www.erskineconsulting.com to find out more about Nick's financial literacy education services.