Life & Money Simulation
Gain the wisdom and skills to make better personal finance decisions by living your financial future in a highly realistic simulation of life and money.A comprehensive collection of curriculum resources for learning and teaching personal financial literacy and investing.
"This is experiential learning at its best!"
The only training program you need
GoVenture Life & Money is the most realistic and versatile personal financial literacy and investing simulation in the world. Enhanced with supplemental activities, resources, and reference material, the full program provides 2 hours to over 100 hours of curriculum time.
Experiential learning at its best
Perfected through 25 years of R&D
✅ Engaging play & skill-based assessment
✅ Easily fits any course or curriculum
✅ Automated & scalable
❌ No AI cheating
Versatile, reliable, and affordable
✅ Youth & adults
✅ Online & offline
✅ Instructor-led & self-directed
✅ Training enhancement or entire curriculum
Program Details
GoVenture LIFE & MONEY is a realistic software simulation and comprehensive curriculum designed to help youth and adults gain skills in personal financial literacy and investing.The experience is visual, interactive, and fun!
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Establish your life goals and then live your financial future for up to 20 years.
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Monitor your financial information — income, expenses, assets, and liabilities. Further your education, gain job experience, and improve your health.
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Decide where to invest your money — savings account, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals, and more.
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Monitor your net worth as it changes based on the economy, your lifestyle and investment decisions, and your personal spending habits.
Will you be wealthy in the future?Can you afford to buy a new car or home today?Should you invest in a rental property or the stock market?When can you retire?Play GoVenture Life & Money and find out!
What's Included
Software Simulation
A highly interactive simulation game that enables students to directly experience personal financial literacy and investing. Instructors can assign students to play short activities or the full simulation. Instructors can also choose to have students play an investment-only simulation.
Learning Guide
Easy-to-read Learning Guide that covers personal financial literacy and investing topics. Contains content equivalent to that of a 300-page textbook.
eWorkbook
An online workbook that introduces students to the basics of life and money. Content is presented in an easy-to-read summary format, supported with brief practice exercises at the end of each section.
Activities ONLINE
Activities that allow students to learn and practice important financial concepts. These include a visual life-planning tool and 9 other online activities.
Activities PDF
More than 70 printable PDF exercises that support the content in the Learning Guide.
Videos
Videos to enhance student learning — curated from around the world. Hundreds are available.
Instructor Website
Monitor student progress and performance in real time. Set goals for students to achieve in the simulation.
Instructor & Curriculum Guide
Helps teachers and trainers integrate GoVenture into curricula. Includes a detailed Curriculum Guide with scope and sequence recommendations for 5, 10, 20, 40, and 100+ hours of contact time.
Standards & Assessment
Covers hundreds of educational standards and outcomes to meet national and regional standards. GoVenture makes it quick and easy to deliver curriculum-matched outcomes in a way that is problem-based, cross-curricular, thematic, and holistic.
Modular
Play the full simulation or individual activities, including an investment-only simulation, the life plan activity, the net worth activity, and more.
Online — Any Device
Progress is automatically saved online. Play, quit, and resume at any time. Works on computers, tablets, and Chromebooks with nothing to install. (Works on smartphones too, but the interface may be too small for comfortable viewing.)
Meets Privacy Requirements
Students in K-12 schools can play without disclosing personally identifiable information.
Versatile
Suitable for youth and adults in self-directed or facilitated learning environments. Includes accessibility options for people with disabilities.
Free Trial for Instructors
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Proof of Student Work & Performance
Playing the simulation requires consistent, sustained effort and skill from students. AI cannot do the work or thinking for them.
Prices
What, Why, & How of Experiential Game-Based Learning
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All Resources Included
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How To Play Simulation
Mental Money | Podcast
Helping listeners win in their personal finances. Episode focus— Gaining personal financial literacy skills using the GoVenture Life & Money simulation game.
Listen to podcast
Life & Money is a GoVenture product — one of the original and most widely used series of educational games and simulations in the world — empowering people to learn by doing. Used by thousands of instructors and millions of students across K-12 schools, colleges, universities, nonprofits, and businesses.
Prices
Prices
GoVenture Life & Money offers tremendous value to instructors and students. Visit our main GoVenture website for pricing and ordering details.
Contact
CONTACT US — Send questions, request a free instructor account, or schedule a call or meeting.
GoVenture Life & Money is produced and published by MediaSpark Inc, founded in 1994. Visit our main GoVenture website for more contact information and contact options.
GoVenture Personal Finance
Gain the wisdom and skills to make better personal finance decisions by living your financial future in a highly realistic simulation of life and money. A comprehensive collection of curriculum resources for learning and teaching personal financial literacy and investing.
Texas Proclamation 2019
Social Studies | 9392 — Personal Financial Literacy
GoVenture Personal Finance meets 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and is on the approved list of resources.
GoVenture Life & Money
GoVenture Personal Finance is available under the product name — Life & Money