This 5-minute video lesson explains how credit default swaps can be used as hedges, insurance or side-bets. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 166 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]

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"Financial Empowerment is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year students with the necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess financial risk, and achieve financial success. This textbook attempts to speak to the varied backgrounds, knowledge systems, and experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians by providing Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on personal finance and financial planning using examples and information from Elders, the Canadian financial system, and the economy. Additional resources can be found at https://www.uregina.ca/oer-publishing/index.html."

"JA programs inspire students to understand their potential, set life goals and succeed at school and in business. We accomplish this by partnering with teachers and dedicated volunteers who bring the “real world” into the classroom. Our programs prepare students to innovate, take on leadership roles and go after their dreams."

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Grades 3-6 - More than Money, A Business of Your Own, JA Fun & Games, JA BizCraft, Bite-sized Learning

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"Give your students a deeper understanding of money management using a curriculum offered by Choices & Decisions: Taking charge of your financial life™. This program is designed to teach young people how to set long and short-term personal and financial goals; create and work with a personal budget; identify how and when to use credit; save and invest, understand the basics of banking services and develop character and confidence. The materials can easily be adapted for use in a wide variety of instructional settings including high schools, colleges and adult education programs.

Start making a difference with your students today. Select specific lessons or in-class activities or download everything as a PDF file."

Choices & Decisions Introduction

Decisions & Goals: Making Decisions; Making Money; The Art of Budgeting;

Loans & Expenses: Student Loans; Living on your Own; Buying a Home; Cars and Loans

Banking & Credit: Banking Services; Saving and Investing; About Credit; Credit Cards

Consumer Knowledge: Influence of Advertising; Consumer Awareness; In Trouble; About Consumer Privacy

Learn the very basics of managing money as well as strategies for saving, budgeting, retirement and more

I use this assignment whenever I teach Personal Finance. There is no better way to teach budgeting skills and the power of money than to have the students track and record their spending for five months. This is probably the most powerful activity that I have used in teaching this course.

In this challenging instructional task students relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money.

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The Secondary PAA Implementation Support organization houses a variety of materials to support the implementation of several PAA curricula. As members of implementation working teams, teachers developed, adapted or identified resources/materials for:

Accounting 10, 20, 30;
Career and Work Exploration 10, 20, A30, B30;
Financial Literacy 20, 30;
Information Processing 10, 20, 30; and,
Robotics and Automation 10, 20, 30.
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This activity finds you hungry and thirsty, with money in your pocket for the vending machines. First, you must determine which machines take coins or bills. Then, you must use appropriate bills or coins to make and pay for a selection. But please don't shake the machine if your selection becomes lodged in the window—your computer can't take the abuse!

The Crash Course Economics series is a great way to introduce concepts of Economics to students. The videos are short and easy to understand.