Learning About Money Doesn’t Have To Be Boring!
A series of short vignettes produced for CFEE by Just For Laughs Gags focusing on money and highlighting money challenges, along with supporting tips and teaching material and suggested classroom activities and lesson ideas.
- Mind Your Money (PIN and password security)
- Buying Online: Be Safe. Be Wise (identifying secure websites, public WIFI and password security)
- Do They Have the Right Stuff (Trusted Advice, Selecting Financial Advisors, Good Money Decisions)
- If It Sounds Too Good To Be True (suspicious offers, risk/reward, credible investment sources)
-Catch It If You Can - In the Small Print (contracts, documents, verbal agreements, protect yourself)
- Why Pay More? (credit card offers, payments and interest charges, statement information, credit score)
- Need it, Want it, It's Your Call (need vs want, spending choices, compulsive buying, influences on buying)
- Take The Time (spending decisions, pressures to spend, comparison shopping, budget your money, return policies)
- Get the Credit You Deserve (credit score, paying off debt, credit rating accuracy, importance of a credit score)
- Scam Alert! (scams, fraud, personal information, protect your identity)

In this vignette the girl is influenced by her peers to make a poor choice.  Don’t let others decide what you need and what you want. Every day people are exposed to advertising trying to convince them to buy their product. If you think that what you want is actually something you need, you are more likely to buy it. Money must be spent on needs, but wants are a choice you make. You should be in control of your spending.

Students will explore the concepts of needs and wants and how they impact financial decisions. Discuss how budgeting decisions vary at different stages of life to reflect shifting personal goals. Students can work through some activites to discover reasons for budgeting, the difference between needs and wants and do their own self-evaluation for their financial choices.

This contains specific resources from the Sask DLC Financial Literacy 10 course. Included here are activities that  uncover student lifestlye reflections and future goals; assignments that allow the students to explore careers and design their future; and SK curriculum-specific videos on Needs and Wants, Defining Lifestyle, Indigenous Perspectives and Action Planning

Contains Managing Your Money Workbook, an activity for students to track their income and expenses, "Needs vs. Wants" and "Building a Personal Budget" assignments, rubrics and Sask DLC Videos

Outcome: FL10.5 Explain the principles of saving money and the importance of a savings mindset. Explore the concepts of needs and wants and how they impact financial decisions. Discuss how budgeting decisions vary at different stages of life to reflect shifting personal goals.

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These videos were created by Sask DLC to align with the SK Financial Literacy 10 curriculum and learning outcomes.

Develop personal goals using a variety of goal setting models.

Teacher Guide included.

2-3 hours

This PDF resource covers the following "Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions:
1. What is a family?
2. People have families to help meet their needs.
3. What are basic human needs?
4. How do humans meet these needs and how has this changed over time?
5. How are families similar and different?

Examine the principles of saving money.

Teacher Guide included.

1-3 hours