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Virtual Business – Personal Finance
Engage your students with a totally visual computer simulation that lets them learn and practice all the key personal financial skills
they'll need to succeed in life. Virtual Business – Personal Finance will present your students with challenges around bank accounts,
credit and debit cards, bills, credit scores, taxes, insurance, investing, and more.
Virtual Business – Personal Finance is the only personal finance
product to combine rich visuals and animations with a complete simulation that
covers all aspects of personal finance.
LESSONS INCLUDE:
Budgeting & Saving, Choosing & Balancing a Checking Account, Getting a
Credit Card, Fixing Your Credit, Education & Advancement, Using Online
Banking, Paying Your Taxes, Intro to Investing, Time Management and Health,
Finding a Job, Finding an Apartment, Buying a Car, Shopping, Risk vs.
Return, Diversification, Investing for Retirement, Buying a Home, and Insurance.
WHAT YOU GET:
Over 150 pages of written course material; 50 written exercises; 18 computer-based exercises, projects, and multiplayer competitions; Virtual Business software on CD; online
training videos; interactive tutorial to train students; instructor's manual with lesson plans and answer keys; full-color poster; and a three-ring binder to hold manuals and disks.
Assessment Options
The Quiz Generator allows you to create quizzes with random questions based on selected lessons. Features include drag-and-drop addition and deletion of specific questions, ability to save
quizzes for future reuse, ability to add your own custom questions, ability to print multiple versions of a quiz with questions randomly ordered, and more. Besides this great assessment tool,
Virtual Business – Personal Finance also includes printable lesson worksheets, projects, and performance journals to help the teacher assess student performance.
H&R Block Partnership
VBPF is the central curriculum of the H&R Block Dollars & Sense national financial fitness program. Knowledge Matters and H&R Block are working together to create a new generation of financially fit Americans, teens who are ready for whatever the real world throws at them.
The Educator's Choice
The Virtual Business family of simulations is now in over 5000 schools across the United States. Our simulations are built with educators in mind and are always correlated to state and
national standards as well as leading textbooks. Virtual Business is the choice of key players in business, marketing, and economic education including Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, DECA, and FBLA. Virtual Business – Personal Finance has been nominated for a Distinguished Achievement Award by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).
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Video Tour of Virtual Business – Personal Finance
This 3-minute video will give you a quick overview of Virtual Business – Personal Finance.
Ideal for Teaching:
- Personal Finance
- Career Skills
- Life Skills
How Do I Use...
- Lessons: Students start with standards-based lessons. There are 18 lessons, each with four to six pages of written course material. Each lesson also has written exercises and computer exercises that are designed to test the students' grasp of the topic being covered.
- Projects: After students have finished the lessons they move on to the New Career Project. In this project they are responsible for all the key personal financial decisions of their person.
- Multiplayer Competitions: Finally, students can use the skills they have developed to compete against each other.
System Requirements:
- Windows XP or Vista
- Microsoft .Net Framework Version 3.5 SP 1 (free from Microsoft)
- 100 MB RAM
- 50MB hard disk space
- SVGA display
- CD-ROM drive
- Local Area Network (LAN) connection*
* Only required for multiplayer functionality
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