The bizkids website offers a unique collection of information to teach middle and high school students about financial planning, savings, taxes, etc. The student section offers a few cute games (e.g. Dollar a Glass is a lemonade stand game) to teach students about financial planning and links to other sites for kid-appropriate games and content. There are also clips to the Biz Kids series which features a cartoon dog or teenagers discussing financial planning. Watching the full episodes requires purchasing them from the online store but the episodes can easily be previewed by topic in the teacher section. Students can watch full episodes on TV and can search for show times by zip code. Biz kids offers a semi-controlled environment for playing around and the opportunity to expose students to important life planning skills.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Attention
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Self-regulation
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students