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The following videos come from the Utah Instructional Media Consortium (UIMC), KUED 7, PBS and other media resources licensed by UEN. K-12 Utah Educators and students can visit eMedia locate and download these videos.

K-6 Videos in eMedia

• Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
  Familiar storybook characters apply basic digits to big concepts like billions and dollar bills. One story explores the world of money, while another answers the question, "How Much Is a Million?"

• Dr. Rock's Math Adventures: Counting Money
  Dr. Rock helps your class understand the basic principles of counting money, such as identifying coins and dollars; discussing the coins and their values; and the different symbols associated with money.

• Learning About Money
  Students learn that money has value and comes in many denominations and students will go inside one of our country's mints to discover how coins are made. Lastly, they will learn that every country has its own unique money and see some of the currencies used in different countries today.

• Money Essentials for Students
  This video traces money through time and culture, highlights such historical forms of money as animal teeth and stones, explains the decimal system, introduces the U.S. Mint, reviews the math behind money, discusses how to use banks, and more.

• Write Now: Budgets
  List the products you use each day. How much money will you have to earn to afford to live on your own? This short segment provides a visual prompt for creative writing and Language Arts.

• Write Now: Money
  Do you ever feel like you are throwing away money? Why or why not? This short segment provides a visual prompt for creative writing and Language Arts.

7-12 Videos in eMedia.

• Business Basics: Careful With Credit
  This video helps students understand how credit works and how to use it wisely. Learn about accrued interest, APR, and more.

• How Our Economy Works. Part 1-All About Earning and Spending Money
  In this engaging video students learn that people work to earn money so that they can satisfy their basic needs and wants, and that money is used for either goods or services.

• Frontline. The Merchants of Cool
  Teenagers today have more money and independence than ever before. FRONTLINE explores the culture in which today's American teenager is growing up and how they've come to view themselves and their parents.

• Frontline. Can you Afford to Retire?
  Frontline reports that baby boomers are heading for a shock as they hit retirement: vanishing pensions and inadequate 401(k) savings. What can be done?

• Identity Theft: Protecting Your Identity
  This comprehensive program for young adults provides all the information necessary for protecting yourself from identity theft.

• Paying for College with the Greenes
  Howard and Matthew Greene introduce the most basic concepts behind paying for college with their well-known honest and reassuring approach. They go behind-the-scenes at major universities, meeting financial aid officers who provide firsthand glimpses into the decision-making process.

• Saving Here, Saving Now
  For any wage earner learning the basic pitfalls of money management is a formidable task. In this important program you will learn some of the tactics successful people use for staying fit financially.

• Suze Orman for the Young, Fabulous and Broke
  In her inimitable straight-talking style, Suze provides powerful, insightful and often surprising guidelines for actions that can help young women and men at perhaps the most critical financial time of their lives - getting started!

• Suze Orman: The Road to Wealth
  In an accessible and dynamic question-and-answer format, Suze Orman tackles the issues of utmost importance to ordinary men and women struggling to manage debt, maximize their hard-earned money, gain a profitable return on their investments and ensure a comfortable retirement.

• Teens and Money
  Teens often have trouble making mature decisions about money, but this video will help teach them how to be responsible with money, and how to navigate through the complex world of consumer finance.

• The Teen Files Flipped. Credit Card/ Gambling Addiction
  This outstanding program provides a sobering, no- holds-barred look at the devastating results of reckless spending and problem gambling.

• TV 411. Episode 10
  A young couple from Seattle with credit card debt visits a credit counselor to create a budget, learn how to clip coupons, and manage their money.

• Understanding Loans, Credit Cards, and Other Debt
  This program helps students understand the basics of financial credit systems, the best ways to obtain and manage credit, and how credit decisions can influence one's future.

• Valuing our Money
  This program will help students better understand what trade-offs they make for the money they earn. Programs on spending are countered by programs on saving.

• Write Now: Budgets
  List the products you use each day. How much money will you have to earn to afford to live on your own? This short segment provides a visual prompt for creative writing and Language Arts.

• Write Now: Money
  Do you ever feel like you are throwing away money? Why or why not? This short segment provides a visual prompt for creative writing and Language Arts.

Online Videos

• $7.50 Once a Week
  The Schoolhouse Rock Money Rock classic "$7.50 once a Week"

• A Lesson in Finances from The Cosby Show
  Fun video clip where Dr. Huxtable teaches Theo how to manage his money using Monopoly money.

• Access, Analyze, Act: Videos - Teen on the Street
  Young people talk about economic issues such as their concerns about the effects of recession and finding a job.

• Beneath the Surface - Youth Interview LA homeless
  Teens from the CK2 Corporate Kids / CyberKlub after school program interview homeless people in LA.

• Borrowing Money in Plain English
  This video explains the risks and realities of borrowing money.

• The Check’s in the Mail
  Music video about writing checks.

• The Coin Song
  Fun song about counting coins.

• Copy Machines, a Security Risk?
  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the good, old-fashioned copy machine. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security.

• Counting Coins at the Corner Store (less/greater than)
  Video Project to help second grade students with their coin counting and use of greater than and less than signs.

• Credit Card Debt
  This story was shot as a part of a program on the economy and the environment. Spoke to Jay Stephens of Money Management International and Kenneth Polley of Charles Schwab about the current state of consumer credit, and how people can begin the process of getting out of debt.

• Credit Card Debt - A Student's Story
  This is a public service video in which a college graduate explains how living like a professional and accumulating credit card debt while in college forced a student to live like a student when she got out. From AIE.org

• Dollars and Sense
  SchoolHouse Rock video about saving money.

• Don't Buy Stuff You Can't Afford
  SNL offers a revolutionary debt and money-management program.

• Elmo Counting Coins
  Elmo sings the Counting Coins song.

• Entrepreneurship
  Video encouraging viewers to open their minds and explore their options as an entrepreneur.

• Financial Literacy Video
  Music video about money, debt, saving, budgeting…
  

• How Many Millions are in a Trillion?
  Econ4U interviewed a number of people in front of the White House to find out how much they knew about some basic economic concepts. In this video, we ask people how many millions are in a trillion. Econ4U.org/blog/
  

• Human Capital
  This 3 minute video clip explains the concept of human capital and how it affects earning an income.

• Insurance in Plain English
  An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time.

• Investing Money in Plain English
  An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time.

• Leaving the Nest
  Budgeting in real life, real life concerns of high school seniors, advice from experts.
  

• Money Song
  Ralphie, Maxine and their friend sing about the realtionship of coins. From the Wowzies TV series.
  

• Muppet Show, Dr. Teeth – Money Song
  Dr. Teeth from the Muppet Show sings about money.
  

• One Penny US Coins Song
  Learn about the US Coins.
  

• PBS: How People Make Things
  PBS Kids: This video and accompanying photographs developed for the PBS Mr. Rogers series show how sneakers, plates, construction paper, wagons and other goods are made.
  

• Pizza Cravings and Credit Cards
  Credit card companies don't give you the entire picture when they're trying to get your business. Do you know the real cost of items purchased on a credit card?
  

• Protecting Your Identity
  Taking steps to safeguard your financial identity.
  

• Saving for Retirement in Plain English
  An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time.

• Saving Money (Compound Interest) in Plain English
  An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time.

• Stock Markets in Plain English
  An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time.

• Surviving the Holidays
  Planning ahead, budgeting, alternative gifts, focus on the joy of giving not spending.
  

• Tax Man Max
  Celebrate taxes with Tax Man Max from the Schoolhouse Rock classic.
  

• Tyrannosaurus Debt
  Learn about the national debt from the Schoolhouse Rock classic.
  

• Walkin’ On Wall Street
  Learn about investing and stocks from the Schoolhouse Rock classic.
  

• Where the Money Goes
  Learn about paying bills from the Schoolhouse Rock classic.