"This interactive, online course teaches students how to make wise financial decisions to promote financial well-being over their lifetime. Through real-life scenarios, students explore complex financial concepts and gain actionable strategies for managing their finances."
7 lessons; 35 minutes each
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"There are 13 modules in the Saskatchewan financial literacy curriculum that are suggested for middle years learners.
Simply click on a theme, select a module for instruction, pick an appropriate suggested activity, and download the necessary resources to help students meet the module’s outcome.
Please access the Curriculum Connections folder on the Supplementary Resources page for more planning resources including suggested sequencing of modules for middle years grades."
*A suggested sequence is even provided!
"There are 44 modules worth of activities and resources on this page! 31 modules with the secondary icon are designed for high school instruction in the Saskatchewan Financial Literacy 20/30 curriculum.
Although some of the content of the 13 other modules are designed for middle years instruction, they are easily adaptable to secondary learners. Teachers, consult your school division to see if the 13 modules have been taught at the middle years level to avoid repetition.
Simply click on a theme, select a module for instruction, pick an appropriate suggested activity from the Teacher’s Guide, and download the necessary resources to help students meet the module’s outcome."
"Practical Money Skills is a free financial literacy program to help Canadians understand the fundamentals of money management. Created by Visa, the program offers money management resources including calculators, games, and lesson plans tailored for use by Canadian families and educators."
During this engineering design/build project, students investigate many different solutions to a problem. Their design challenge is to find a way to get school t-shirts up into the stands during home sporting events. They follow the steps of the engineering design process to design and build a usable model, all while keeping costs under budget.
Through this activity students will learn about food security and some of the causes of food insecurity both globally and at home. Then students will explore how food fits into a household budget and explore how some real-world challenges can affect the budgets and food choices of families. Developed in partnership with Conexus Credit Union.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Personal Financial Planning
Chapter 2: Basic Ideas of Finance
Chapter 3: Financial Statements
Chapter 4: Evaluating Choices: Time, Risk, and Value
Chapter 5: Financial Plans: Budgets
Chapter 6: Taxes and Tax Planning
Chapter 7: Financial Management
Chapter 8: Consumer Strategies
Chapter 9: Buying a Home
Chapter 10: Personal Risk Management: Insurance
Chapter 11: Personal Risk Management: Retirement and Estate Planning
Chapter 12: Investing
Chapter 13: Behavioral Finance and Market Behavior
Chapter 14: The Practice of Investment
Chapter 15: Owning Stocks
Chapter 16: Owning Bonds
Chapter 17: Investing in Mutual Funds, Commodities, Real Estate, and Collectibles
Chapter 18: Career Planning
"EVERFI: Financial Literacy for High School is a digital education program that teaches students how to make wise financial decisions to promote financial well-being over their lifetime. The interactive lessons in this financial literacy course translate complex financial concepts and help students develop actionable strategies for managing their finances.
Immersive digital environments and diverse characters bring modern, relevant financial education objectives to life. Students accelerate their financial understanding through problem-solving, self-reflection and games that provide real-life scenarios for practice."
This Course Covers
Banking Basics
Income and Employment
Budgeting
Consumer Skills
Managing Credit and Debt
Financing Higher Education
Insurance
Students have been hired to write a chapter on the Great War for the years covering 1914 to 1919 for a high school history book. The publisher, however, has put them on a tight budget for the number of pages and illustrations. Students, taking the roles of historians and authors, must choose only the three most important events of the time. They are responsible for researching the events of the First World War and writing a letter to the textbook publisher outlining and defending their choice of events. Students must use the criteria of historical significance when making their argument.
"Personal Finance program teaches students in grades 9-12 personal money management skills including the key elements of personal finance such as spending wisely, budgeting, saving, investing and using credit."You can contact your local Junior Achievement (JA) to offer this course or you can enrol as a teacher and have your students complete it under your direction. This can also be accessed by a student or parent as well (with a free account).
"Callysto is a free, multimodal learning program for grades 5-12 students in Canada. The program is part of a two-year pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), who received funding from the federal government’s CanCode program to build and employ new technologies that promote digital literacy and help Canada’s youth develop the foundational skills required to become the future drivers of innovation."
Learning modules are available for Math, ELA, Science, Social, etc.
Click RESOURCES then select - learning modules, lesson plans, Indigenous content, data, computational thinking, problem solving.
Use the "bubbles" to filter to the subject.
Click GET STARTED to find the teacher starter kit and free full courses on computing science 10, AI, computational thinking, data science.
In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when designing and building a rocket. They learn about important factors such as supplies, ethics, deadlines and budgets. Also, students learn about the Engineering process, and recognize that the first design is almost never the final design. Re-Engineering is a critical step in creating a rocket.
"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
A variety of financial literacy lessons for grades Prek-12 and beyond. Visit each grade section for a full list of topics covered.
Jeux et scénarios en littératie financière
Établir un budget, prioriser ses dépenses, épargner son argent et vivre selon ses moyens sont toutes des connaissances et des compétences qu’englobe la littératie financière. Une personne qui possède des compétences financières peut mieux gérer son argent et prendre des décisions financières plus saines.
Les activités présentées dans le jeu ont été conçues pour soutenir l’engagement et les initiatives ministérielles en ce qui concerne l’aptitude des élèves à utiliser leur plein potentiel.
This is an American site that provides free personal finance curriculum and professional development to more than 30,000 middle and high school teachers reaching over 2 million students. Even though it is American, there are plenty of uses for this in Canada as well!
Click the curriculum tab at the top to see all of your options for resources!
There is also an arcade full of games (button at the top middle of the screen)!
There is also a Math button at the top of the screen for math related lessons. E.g, unit price, compound interest
Three full course options are available for high school and one for middle school.
There is also current events under FINCAP Friday; as well as question of the day, unit review, podcasts, library and assessments.
In The Payoff game, play the role of Alex or Jess, two up-and-coming video bloggers who are preparing for a life-changing video competition while managing their finances and handling unexpected events. In the immersive game, developed by Visa, help Alex and Jess make smart financial decisions within the tight three-day deadline and complete their video for the competition.
Using their knowledge of the phases of matter, the scientific method, and polymers, student teams work as if they are chemical engineers to optimize the formula for slime. Hired by the fictional company, Slime Productions, students are challenged to modify the chemical composition of the basic formula for slime to maximize its "bounce factor."
The difference between an architect and an engineer is sometimes confusing because their roles in building design can be similar. Students experience a bit of both professions by following a set of requirements and meeting given constraints as they create a model parking garage. They experience the engineering design process first-hand as they design, build and test their models. They draw a blueprint for their design, select the construction materials and budget their expenditures. They also test their structures for strength and find their maximum loads.