Nov 20, 2024

Use NGPF's Online Banking Simulation to Bring Real-World Skills Into the Classroom

[Updated November 20, 2024]

Want to give your students the experience of exploring a checking and savings account through a fun and engaging online simulation? Enter: NGPF’s Online Banking Sim. 

The Online Banking Sim has students practice skills such as:

  • Check their checking and savings account balances 
  • Making a transfer 
  • Paying bills online
  • …and more! 

Note: The Online Banking Sim does NOT collect student data. 


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The Online Banking Sim is the core activity in the Online and Mobile Banking lesson. Consider doing the lesson if you want to provide additional resources to students before they complete the simulation!  

Looking for more interactive resources? Be sure to check out the NGPF Blog

 

About the Authors

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.

Sonia Dalal

Sonia has always been passionate about instruction and improving students' learning experiences. She's come a long way since her days as a first grader, when she would "teach" music and read to her very attentive stuffed animals after school. Since then, she has taught students as a K-12 tutor, worked in several EdTech startups in the Bay Area, and completed her Ed.M in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about bringing the high quality personal finance content and instruction she wished she'd received in school to the next generation of students and educators. When she isn't crafting lesson guides or working with teachers, Sonia loves to spend her time singing, being outdoors, and adventuring with family and friends!

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