Season 1

Lesson 5

Money Moves

What Students Learn

  • Follow a dollar bill as it moves from a depositor’s hand, to the bank vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing.
Lesson 8

How to Succeed in Biz-ness

What Students Learn

  • Discover the three key steps to succeeding in business: identify a need, make a plan, and take action.
Lesson 9

Cash and Credit

What Students Learn

  • What's the difference between cash and credit? Learn the pros and cons to using your own money versus someone else's.
Lesson 10

How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

What Students Learn

  • Learn how to track expenses, control spending, and invest what’s left over to reach your financial goal.
Lesson 11

Don’t Blow Your Dough

What Students Learn

  • Biz Kid$ beware! Put your money in a safe place and beware of scams, schemers, and identity theft.
Lesson 15

Using Your Credit

What Students Learn

  • Don’t live on borrowed time. Learn how employers, insurers, colleges, etc. use credit scores to make major decisions that affect your future.
Lesson 16

Budgeting Basics

What Students Learn

  • The first rule of money management: you can’t manage what you don’t know. Learn how to track expenses to build a better budget.
Lesson 18

Saving and Investing for Your Future

What Students Learn

  • Start a savings plan early in life, and discover how to evaluate different investment options.
Lesson 19

A Closer Look at Careers

What Students Learn

  • Learn ways to start exploring careers, and find your true calling.
Lesson 20

The Global Economy

What Students Learn

  • Go around the world and follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy.
Lesson 22

Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)

What Students Learn

  • All sales final! Join the Biz Kid$ in sales training as they explore effective sales techniques.
Lesson 23

Understanding Income and Expenses

What Students Learn

  • Learn proven methods for getting expenses under control while growing income with new ideas, smart work habits, and innovation.
Lesson 25

Understanding Your Paycheck

What Students Learn

  • What’s on your stub, bub? Check out the modern American pay stub to learn about the deductions on your paycheck from Social Security to Workman’s Compensation to a 401(k) plan.

Season 2

Lesson 1

Have a Plan, Stan!

What Students Learn

  • Explore the different elements of a business plan and see why it’s crucial to develop a plan before starting a business.
Lesson 2

Money Math – Who Needs It?

What Students Learn

  • Whether you need to calculate the tip, make change, or grow your savings, it’s all about the math in money.
Lesson 5

How Credit Affects Your Life

What Students Learn

  • Your credit score could impact getting into college, landing a job, or renting an apartment. Learn how to build good credit and what happens when you don’t.
Lesson 7

The World Is A Risky Place

What Students Learn

  • Be smart about taking risks in life. Learn about liability, contracts, and insurance, and how to protect your business, your assets, and yourself.
Lesson 8

Economic Cycles

What Students Learn

  • Economic cycles go up and down. Learn how to protect yourself against negative effects and plan for the positive trends.
Lesson 10

Secrets To Success

What Students Learn

  • It’s simple – explore education options and build the best toolbox for your future.
Lesson 11

The Marketing Mix

What Students Learn

  • You can market anything once you understand the four P’s of marketing: product, price, place and promotion.
Lesson 12

Hidden Careers

What Students Learn

  • You don’t have to be perfect at your passion to build a career in it. If you love something, there are many roles you can play behind the scenes.

Season 3

Lesson 1

Are You Financially Literate

What Students Learn

  • Get financially empowered by learning how to set goals, create a budget, save, and manage money.
Lesson 2

Wheel of Misfortune

What Students Learn

  • Find out how to avoid common money mistakes such as overspending, too much debt, lack of planning, or no emergency fund.
Lesson 3

More Bang for Your buck

What Students Learn

  • Whether you’re facing good times or tough times, know how to get the best value for your money. Discover tips for stretching your dollars.
Lesson 4

Where’s My Allowance?

What Students Learn

  • What can you do with your allowance? Spend, save, share!
Lesson 5

Escape the Box

What Students Learn

  • Opportunity knocks! Learn how to act on new opportunities and to be creative in solving problems.

Season 4

Lesson 2

Debt: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

What Students Learn

  • It’s easy to spend more than you make. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of overspending and meet a few entrepreneurs who didn’t.
Lesson 3

Your first big Purchase

What Students Learn

  • Make sure your first big purchase is B.R.O.W.N. - whether it’s the latest computer, a new smart phone, or a car. Learn about budgeting, researching, negotiating, and more.
Lesson 4

Whats Up with the Stock Market?

What Students Learn

  • Learn the weird, abbreviated language of the stock market, and the difference between a bull and bear market.
Lesson 5

Crash Course on Starting a Business

What Students Learn

  • So you’ve got an idea – now what? The ultimate crash course – find an idea, get funded, market your business, make a profit, and write a business plan.
Lesson 6

How to Make a Million Bucks

What Students Learn

  • If you start early and save often, the power of compound interest can make you millions!
Lesson 8

The Value of Money

What Students Learn

  • Considering all the global currencies, what determines the value of money? What are the factors that impact the American Dollar?

Season 5

Lesson 3

Movin’ On Out

What Students Learn

  • What’s the true cost of cutting the cord? We take you through it all — budgeting, roommates, finding a place, and learning about all the hidden costs mom and dad used to pay.
Lesson 4

You Are the Target!

What Students Learn

  • ….of advertisers, that is. Recognize how to resist manipulation, and how to apply good consumer skills to cut through the commercial fog.
Lesson 5

The Economics of Economics

What Students Learn

  • See how businesses use economic principles to make financial decisions, from micro to macro economics, supply and demand, and economic indicators.
Lesson 8

Take it to the Bank

What Students Learn

  • Learn the difference between banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, and which one is right for you.
Lesson 9

It’s a Job Getting a Job!

What Students Learn

  • Learn tips and tricks for writing a great resume, dressing for success, and nailing the interview.
Lesson 11

What to do with a Windfall?

What Students Learn

  • A financial windfall! Now what? Evaluate investment alternatives based on time, risk, and rate of return.

Season 6

Lesson 1

How to turn $100 into $1,000,000

What Students Learn

  • Develop your MDM (Million Dollar Mindset), maximize saving strategies, and get the best return on your investments.
Lesson 2

College Bound

What Students Learn

  • The average college student graduates with $35,000 in debt. Consider the return-on-investment of college and how to get educated without taking on debt.
Lesson 3

My First Credit Card

What Students Learn

  • Biz Kid$ demystifies the process of getting a credit card, how to use it correctly, and explains terms like credit score and APR.
Lesson 4

Money Really Does Grow On Trees

What Students Learn

  • From products to services, offline to online, and the basics to the bizarre -- this episode explores ways to bring in the bucks.
Lesson 5

Can Money Buy Happiness?

What Students Learn

  • Hear heart-warming stories of how kids identified a need in their community and used an entrepreneurial mindset to solve it.