Financial Literacy Resources

Trade your way to adventure and help shipwrecked Robbie navigate his way through the Barter Islands. Learn about the fundamentals of a barter system and the value of a uniform and acceptable currency. This free resource is available in English and Spanish. Download the app through Google Play or iTunes.

Get ready to trade! 

You’re Robbie. You’re a sailor. You’re shipwrecked! How will you get home?

• To begin playing the game, select either the English or Spanish language version.
• Robbie has wrecked his ship and needs help getting home by locating a sail on one of the Barter Islands.
• After collecting oranges on Orange Island, visit each of the Barter Islands to make trades for important items that will help Robbie in this quest for a sail.
• On each of the Barter Islands, you will meet with the Chief who will provide instructions about how to make your trades successfully.
• The faster you trade, the more points you earn.
  
  

Did you know that the Federal Reserve System wasn’t the United States’ first central bank? The Fed is our nation’s third central bank. Learn more about how the First and Second Banks of the United States were created and why they ended, and the ideas behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Journey through our nation’s history of central banking with Road to the Fed.

We have a limited amount of money and lots of things to spend it on! Save and Spend Challenge tasks participants with building a budget for a character and then analyzing that character's financial choices to discover how their saving, spending, and budgeting habits can affect their financial outcomes. Do you have what it takes to play Save and Spend Challenge?

In this activity, students will learn about the role of central banks, including the Federal Reserve, in a world economy. The game highlights the challenges of balancing stable prices (inflation rate) and full employment (stylized as Gross Domestic Product growth rate) amid a volatile economy.

• Open a browser on your phone or tablet and navigate to https://www.clevelandfed.org/greatmindsthink.
• Select “options”; the location of this section will vary by browser. For instance, Chrome uses three dots in the upper-right corner and Safari uses a box with an arrow pointing up.
• Select “Add to Home Screen” from the options section.
• The Great Minds Think icon will appear on the home screen.

Throughout this activity participants will gain an understanding of how the redlining practices of the past have impacted neighborhoods in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.