Students can explore these two investment game simulations and learn about the purpose of investing, the reasons for diversification of investments and explain the concept of risk tolerance including risk versus reward. Students may also be able to compare the advantages, disadvantages and ethical implications of various types of investments (stocks in this scenario). The STAX game is an interactive game, that allows students to diversify and try to beat the markets over 20 years. The Market Watch game is a simulation that used live prices and trading until the markets close (using fake money).  https://www.marketwatch.com/games/fin-lit-sk-2425/portfolio?pub=x05tAm55u24F  Password: investnow!

Meet Mia Saver and Ima Spender are two 23-year-old women who recently graduated from college.  For a couple of years after graduation, neither of them saves any money for retirement. Both are focused on establishing their careers and purchasing household items.  At age 25, both decide it’s time to start a retirement account. In this activity, we’ll use an online financial calculator to better understand the power of compounding, interest rates and time!

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)

This humorous vignette reminds us of the need to carefully consider who we trust to give us valid guidance in investing our money. Most of us either don’t have the expertise or the time to manage our investments. As a result, as we begin to build an investment portfolio, we look for help. Some rely solely on family members or friends to guide them while others look for professional help. Regardless of the course you take, it is crucial to understand the background and experience of those offering the guidance and advice. It is important that we give our trust to those who deserve it and not simply rely on friendship or whim. After all, you have worked hard for that money and you want to make sure that it is well managed.

Underlying the humour of this vignette is a serious message about investing. We all would like to be able to put our money to work for us by investing it, but often we are so eager to get a good return on our investment that we overreach and take a chance on an apparent opportunity that offers a greater than normal return. This is a risky venture to say the least. It’s important to take a moment to reflect before acting. As the old adage says, “Act in haste, repent at leisure.” There are a number of things that should be considered when investing money in order to protect ourselves from scams.

One of the key strategies in investing is to take advantage of the power of compounding. Two of the most common cases of people benefitting from compounding are: receiving compound interest in a savings account, and getting compounded returns from stock market investments. In this activity, we’ll use one of these calculators to better understand the power of compounding.

This activity includes Investing Basics Teacher-recorded Video, Article, PPT & Assignments. The assignment will introduce the student to various investment options and help them understand the basics of investing.

This activity introduces students to the following: effective investment practices. Information about investment alternatives, differences in how people manage themselves in dealing with issues such as risk, basic rules of money management, financial goal setting, borrowing money ideas and reasoning. Includes a "Dictionary Game", Diversification (example of a hockey pool from the same team), and a Risk vs. Reward Game using either thumb wrestling, rock/paper/scissors or coin toss. 

This activity is a stock investment simulation. It is a fun way for the students to see how everyday activities, news and happenings around the country can impact stock prices. This will have the students make decisions if they want to keep, sell or buy stock based on what is happening around the company. The real-life implications are significant, because investors in real life have to make these types of decisions and often react with emotion instead of fact and long-term perspectives on the stock. In this project, students use $1800 to invest in a fictitious company Ravioli Den. The teacher will then progress through a series of slides, describing current events impacting the value of investment. At each interval, the student will have the option to buy or sell shares, and then students will complete this worksheet regarding their decisions and the value of their investment. Teachers, you must access the answer key for materials you need to facilitate this activity. 

The objective of this activity is to illustrate the power of diversification when it comes to stocks. Each student receives a card representing one publicly traded company and its returns over the past year. In various rounds, students compare their performance and simulate forming small and large mutual funds. WHY IT’S FUN: Simulation with lots of opportunities to move and collaborate

This resource contains three lessons to review savings, investment options and the calculations of future values of investments. Lesson 1 The power of saving, Lesson 2 Investment tools, Lesson 3 Saving and investing review; End-of-unit quiz and answer sheet.  Each lesson includes black-line print masters for overheads and activities. 

This activity includes a listening guide and assignments to guide the students through the video and learn abou the stock market"Explained | The Stock Market | FULL EPISODE | Netflix"

This resource contains: Financial Literacy Resource Guides for teachers, PowerPoint lesson and student activity on investing.

This content contains grade level Personal Finance Case Studies, resources to help teachers teach, helpful guides for teachers to write their own case studies and sample case presentations and videos of past students. These are great resources to enhance your teachings, use as projects or year end assignments and to prepare students for case based instruction in their future post secondary or at case competitions.

Marketplaces: Investing Basics™This newly updated financial education course equips students with an understanding of how the market works and the confidence to participate in it. Through interactive real-world scenarios, students discover how investing can have a powerful impact on their lives. The updated course more comprehensively addresses financial education standards and features additional investing content, including a brand-new lesson where students learn the benefits of hiring a financial advisor.Includes SK curriculum connections, lesson plans, online interactive lesson bank, assessment keys for teachers and a teacher portal to manage grades and student work.

Students can learn the 101 of Financial Literacy in this online course. Its engaging, animated, visual and interactive!
Teachers can set up an online classroom and manage their students' progress through the modules.
This includes quizzes, assignments, discussion prompts, additional learning in the "sidetrips" section.
With a fun, dynamic guide that makes money feel empowering, financial literacy becomes a life-long that that pays dividends.
Modules:
1. Money Basics and the Economy
2. Setting Goals and Making Wise Consumer Decisions
3. Getting Money: Employment
4. Getting Money: Self Employment - Are You An Entrepreneur?
5. Spending on Major Purchases
6. Borrowing Money
7. Putting Your Money to Work- Saving and Investing Money
8. Protecting Your Money and Things of Value
9. Financial Independence
10. Managing Your Money

Incorporate fun stuff into your financial literacy classroom! Here are some files that teach financial literacy with events such as: Valentines Day, Super Bowl, and Halloween. There are also some online Finance games to share with your students

"Click on an outcome to access relevant resources and suggested activities to help students meet outcomes in the Saskatchewan Financial Literacy 10 curriculum.

Notes:
Since this is a new curriculum, our resources will be updated throughout the 2024-2025 school year.
If you have suggestions for additions, or you notice any errors, please contact admin@saskmoney.ca."

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

Educational ComicsVisa and Marvel Entertainment teamed up to release two exciting educational comic books, which teach readers, especially young people, about personal finance. The comics, Avengers: Saving the Day, Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket’s Powerful Plan, and Black Panther: Investing in Each Other, combine Marvel’s iconic Super Heroes with Visa’s financial literacy expertise to introduce readers to fundamental money management concepts in an entertaining and engaging way. The Guardians of the Galaxy has been distributed worldwide in16 different languages.