REAL ECONOMICS IN THE CLASSROOM

Engage your students in an economy that is relevant and fun. Replace classroom management time with financial literacy!

PURCHASE NOW

Are You Teaching Virtually This Year?

Check out our tips for converting your classroom economy to a virtual classroom.

LEARN MORE

Start Here: Try a Free Demo Account!

Play with all of our features and see how students could experience financial literacy in your classroom.

GET SANDBOX ACCOUNT

How Does QuarterSprout Work?

FINANCIAL LITERACY

Students develop habits that will stick with them for life. They have a checking account for spending and income, and a savings account that accrues interest. During the year, students learn about the importance of planning ahead for spending, saving, and charitable donations.

Dividing income between spending, saving, and donating
Completing job requirements
Paying bills on time
Monitoring a credit score
Taking on practical risk

CLASSROOM ENGAGEMENT

Students practice real life skills in a safe environment where making mistakes is good. In a company, students hire other students to assist with company duties.

Multitask! Teach financial literacy and do your classroom management at the same time
See data on classroom engagement through the year
Set your classroom up to run itself

What does the first day in the classroom look like?

READ ABOUT IT HERE!

SOFT SKILLS

Students emotions are engaged in this realistic mini economy. Payment for employment can be tracked through the year with a calendar. Every student has the job to participate in class, so the calendar acts as an engagement tracker for the whole year.

Being a reliable employee
Being an effective boss
Delegating responsibilities in a company
Conflict resolution
Finding a market need for a company

GET INSIGHTS INTO YOUR STUDENTS

Teachers can watch students progress in their economic understanding and classroom engagement over the school year.

"Kids make corporations and monopolize the classroom economy in short order"

"My class voted on tax rate changes throughout the year to get individual or class benefits."

"I've appointed lawyers and judges to handle student lawsuits."

"I put whole class benefits in the store to encourage the idea of community."

"I've started a lottery and it shows how it just makes the rich more rich."

"My students make businesses and file paperwork to incorporate."

"I have my students invest their QuarterSprout money in the stock market."

What Students Do

1. Get paid (fake!) money
2. Get a job and hire others
3. Manage a savings and checking account
4. Interact with other students
5. Loan money
6. Pay taxes
7. Make purchases

What Students Learn

1. Saving & budgeting
2. How interest and inflation works
3. How different economic systems work
4. Entrepreneurship
5. Investment
6. Maintaining a job
7. Civic responsibility

What Teachers Do

1. Pay students for following class rules
2. Hire students for jobs
3. Maintain a class store
4. Monitor movement of money
5. Help students manage taxation
6. Send out bills and bonuses
7. Get data on students

Turn the classroom into an economy

QuarterSprout takes a classroom economy and elevates it into a full economy, allowing students to learn modern financial skills and economics through a real experience.

SEE IT IN ACTION!