Online Coaching Resources

LifeSmarts is a flexible classroom group activity that teaches teens to be smart and responsible consumers and citizens. The content and competition questions focus on five key areas of consumer knowledge that teens need to know in order to function effectively and confidently in today's marketplace - personal finance, consumer rights and resposibilities, technology, health and safety, and the environment.

Resources to help prepare your students for LifeSmarts:

• Lesson plans and teaching tools from government agencies, businesses, consumer and labor groups and trade associations
• How to effectively use the Coach's Corner
• Promoting your LifeSmarts program locally
• Requesting materials
• Competition rules and release forms
• LifeSmarts Coach's Guide
• Curricula Standards -- learn how to apply educational standards and objectives to LifeSmarts