Financial Literacy simulation
Learn money management and experience 10 years of your financial future in this life simulation!
Format
Online
CD
Network
Learner
College
& Adult
G 10–12
G 7–9
G K–6
Pre K
Depth
Duration
Language
Detailed
MAX
Dozens
of hours
English
Moderate
MIN
2 hours
Intro
Latest version 1.5.2
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GoVenture Financial Literacy simulation is a realistic software simulation designed to help youth and adults learn about personal money-management decisions in a fun and educational manner. Like a flight simulator for finance and life, GoVenture Financial Literacy enables you to learn by doing. It’s easy to use, visual, interactive, and exciting!
Establish your life plan, enter your financial information — job, budget, home, transportation, and living expenses — and then live your financial future for up to 10 years. Watch your savings grow and shrink based upon the economy, your investment decisions, and your personal spending habits. What kind of lifestyle will you be able to afford? Try GoVenture Financial Literacy and find out!
Practice your money management skills on your own, or against your friends and classmates. Gain practical experience so you have the knowledge and ability to plan your own financial future.
Unlike any book, course, or seminar, GoVenture Financial Literacy enables you to gain years of finance and life experience in minutes! Play again and again — every new simulation you run is different!
GoVenture Financial Literacy is ideal for youth and adults in self-directed or facilitated learning environments. GoVenture Financial Literacy is also the perfect complement to any finance, business, economics, math, career, or family and consumer sciences course. See below for what's included.
Plus, run an entire session of GoVenture Financial Literacy within minutes, or over an extended period of time.
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Activities, topics,
and outcomes
With over 200 activities, topics, and outcomes covered, GoVenture Financial Literacy makes it quick and easy to deliver curriculum-matched outcomes in a way that is problem-based, cross-curriculum, thematic, and holistic.
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Experiencing Financial Literacy
An Illustrated Introduction to Personal Finance
Lesson plans and activities designed to bring financial literacy and personal finance education alive in the classroom.
Learning Guides & Activities
Instructor & Student Editions
A selection of objective questions which can be used to create tests.
Test Bank
A helpful feature included in the software simulation that displays detailed simulation results, assigns a score to performance based upon a number of factors, and can be printed out as a report for evaluation.
Performance Report
A 70-page book that introduces financial literacy concepts and outlines the basics of personal finance, in an easy-to-read, summary format.
See the table of contents.
Experiencing Financial Literacy — Table of Contents
1. Welcome
2. GoVenture Financial Literacy
a. What is the GoVenture Financial Literacy Simulation
b. What Makes GoVenture Financial Literacy Unique
c. GoVenture for You
d. What You Need to Play GoVenture Financial Literacy
e. More Information
Section I: Introduction to Personal Finance
3. Being an Entrepreneur
a. Cash Flow
b. Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (Equity)
4. Your Assets
a. Cash
b. Investment Securities
c. Capital Assets
d. Investment Property or Personal Use Property
5. Your Liabilities
a. Borrowing, Debt, Loans, and Credit - What Are They?
b. Why Do People Borrow?
c. Interest Payments
d. Credit Ratings
e. Revolving Credit and Loans
f. Rents and Leases
g. Family Loans and Loan Guarantees
h. Consumption, Income, and Wealth Taxes
6. Managing Your Assets and Liabilities
a. Setting Goals and Planning
b. Monitoring Your Financial Health
c. Insuring Your Life and Assets
d. Living and Retiring Comfortably
7. Key Investment Concepts
a. Time Value of Money
b. Return on Investment (ROI)
c. Rate of Return
d. Risk and Return
e. Economic Influences
f. Economic Indicators
8. Making Your Money Grow
a. Savings and Debt Investments
b. Equity Investments
c. Gambling
d. Qualified Retirement Plans
e. Summary
9. Next Steps
Section II: Additional Reference Material
10. The Investment Timetable
11. Calculating the Return on Investment
a. Comparing Investments and Rates of Return
b. Simple Rates of Return
c. Compound Rates of Return
12. Bank Accounts
a. Checking Accounts
b. Savings Accounts
c. Term Deposits
d. Electronic Banking Services
e. Risks and Benefits - Bank Accounts
13. Credit and Loans
a. Credit Cards - Financial Institution Credit Cards
b. Credit Cards - Retail Charge Cards
c. Personal Line of Credit
d. Overdraft Protection
e. Personal/Consumer Loans
14. Taxes
a. Direct and Indirect Taxes
b. Sales Tax
c. Income Tax
d. Real Estate Tax (Property Tax)
e. Estate Tax
f. Tax Shelters
FREE Resources
Product Videos
Watch demonstration and training videos - the best way to get started quickly.
Award Certificates
Printable certificates for rewarding learner achievement.
Case Studies
Examples of how GoVenture is being used by others.
Standardize On GoVenture
Why states and districts are adopting GoVenture as a curriculum standard.
Education Standards Maps
See how GoVenture maps to specific education standards.
GoTeacher
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GoVenture Sponsorship Program
A special resource for schools and nonprofits to help find the funds needed to purchase GoVenture.
Instructor Guide
A guide to using GoVenture in the classroom or in a business training environment.
Adobe PDF (641kB)
Cheat Sheet
Summarizes helpful business and money information into a single sheet of paper.
GoVentureOasis.com
A free website containing a wealth of business tools, activities, and games.
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