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• - Introduces the basics of business by allowing players to create a "product," advertise and market it.
  
• - Interactive introduction to the economics of pro sports. From the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Includes teacher's guide.
  
• - Provides basic information about starting a business, earning money, spending it wisely, and saving and investing. Includes quizzes, games, glossary of financial terms, and a look at how consumer habits influence the economy.
  
• - Information about the history of American taxation, with web-based documentary publications and original research.
  
• - Searchable dictionary of more than 1,250 business terms.
  
• - Game challenges kids to earn, save, and spend money. Players are given "seed money" and then visit the game's seven centers: financial planning, job, banking, shopping, education, community centers and city hall. Includes teacher's guide.
  
• - Provides review material for the AP Macroeconomics Exam in .pdf format.
  
• - Online game complete with a local bank that encourages kids to save, a neighborhood cinema that shows movies about money, and a local deli and store where kids can spend their earnings.
  
• - Fleet Financial Group presents games that teach children how to run a business, manage money, set financial goals, and budget. Registration is required, but free.
  
• - An interactive overview of the history of American revenue policy and politics, with narrative text and multimedia material.
  
• - Online companion to the PBS special "Financial Literacy: On The Money" includes resources, activities, information, advice, video clips, and polls.
  
• - Online exhibits and resources chronicling the role of finance and capital markets in American history.
  
• - Explores what a recession is and whether the United States is in one now. From Washington Post's KidPost.
  
• - Publishes free teaching/learning resources plus sources of reference for GCSE Business and Communication Systems and Business Studies.
  
• - Educates teenagers about the U.S. tax system, the effect of taxes on their day-to-day lives, and new electronic ways to file tax returns.