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Financial Literacy

This collection features resources to support teaching Financial Literacy to learners of all ages.  We strongly encourage you to visit the Financial Literacy Hub for a variety of very useful curated collections curated by grade, outcome and module. 

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Activity: Investing & Managing Money Lesson & Games
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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. 

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09/30/2024
Activity: "Is There Such a Thing as Good Debt?” Video and Listening Guide
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FL10.8 Analyze credit options and the importance of responsible borrowing. Title: “Is There Such a Thing as Good Debt?” Listening Guide and Video. Some say that debt is the gateway to your goals, others say it's a ball and chain that will drag you down... So who's right?

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09/03/2024
Activity & Lesson: Supply and Demand
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This activity contains a presentation, notes, activity, and assignment to help teach Supply and Demand within the Micro-economics Module Outcome 32e. Demand and Supply are perhaps sone of the most fundamental concepts of economics and the backbone of a market economy. The relationship between demand and supply underlies the forces behind the allocation of resources. In market economy theories, demand and supply theory will allocate resources in the most efficient way possible. How? Let us take a closer look at the law of demand and the law of supply.

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03/01/2024
Activity: Marginal Cost / Benefit, Scarcity, Opportunity Cost
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This activity supports Module 32: Microeconomics- Explore economic factors that impact personal or community financial decisions. The attached presentation and handout outlines videos and questions to guide the student's learning about marginal cost, marginal benefit, scarcity, and opportunity cost. This content is meant to teach the student to explore these concepts about decision making, especially financial decisions. Considering what we "give up" to get something is very important when spending money. Giving up something is not just the amount of money you gave up; it includes time or the "next best thing" you could have done with that time and money.

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03/01/2024
Activity: Mind Your Money Video & Viewing Guide
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Mind Your Money: An Introduction to the Psychology of Spending. Nov 2023 https://youtu.be/BSulTNHwlL8?si=ZhaKcDXDi6guxeQoA one hour presentation from Mark at the Credit Counselling Society discussing mindful spending techniques and the marketing behind retailers who try to encourage you to spend your money.

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09/03/2024
Activity: Money Stories- Financial Literacy Workbook
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Money StoriesGrounding Indigenous Youth in the Lessons of their EldersWhat is it?Money Stories is a customized money management training program for Indigenous youth. The program combines Indigenous Elders speaking about their experiences with money, with facilitator-led activities about money that are relevant to youth. “We (Elders) need to help the next generation out of poverty. Young people have gifts and talents that should be used. I believe that preparing them for the future, one day they’ll go out into society with the experience and confidence to know they can make it.” Elder Lucy Guiboche.Money stories is delivered in eight chapters. Topics covered include Money, My Community & Me, Building Assets, Goal Setting & Problem Solving, Gathering Information, Budgeting, Banking, and Credit.

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09/09/2024
Activity: Needs vs. Wants Lesson and Assignment (NGPF adapted)
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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.

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09/13/2024
Activity: Online Scams (Full Lesson & Assignment)
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This resource contains a full lesson with suggested sequences, timing, activities, context for learning, assignment and rubric. In this lesson, students will learn ways to avoid financial scams and schemes designed to defraud customers. At the end of this lesson, students will: identify ways to avoid financial scams and schemes designed to defraud customersSuggested Timing: 60 minutes depending on whether optional topics are done and how much class time is given for assignment.

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Date Added:
10/01/2024
Activity: Opportunity Costs- Is It Worth It?
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This activity involves four scenarios where the students will uncover the opportunity costs for each scenario (every decision involves a trade-off). The opportunity cost is the profit lost (or total cost- financial and non-financial costs) when one alternative is chosen over another. A trade-off is understanding that you are going to lose something, in relation to time, money, or energy, when the decision to choose something else is made.  When you buy or do one thing with your money, you must give up the chance to buy or do something else. This is a trade-off: what you give up to get what you want. When you spend part of your income on certain things, you give up spending it on other things.

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03/06/2024
Activity: Payday Loans Info, Activity & Assignment (FCAC)
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Information from Financial Consumer Agency of Canada about payday loans: What is a payday loan, What options to consider before getting a payday loan, Where to get a payday loan, How much a payday loan costs, What to expect when you take out a payday loan, What happens if you can’t pay back a payday loan on time, What you can do if you’re stuck in a debt cycle

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09/03/2024
Activity: Payday (Predatory) Lending
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Students will be able to: Explain what a payday loan is and how it can cause users to fall into a cycle of debt, Identify what financial need payday lenders are meeting and why consumers use payday loans, Compare the price of borrowing money using various loan and credit products, Review alternatives to payday loans, Interact with a game to see the impact and cost of payday loans at high interest rates (and the profit motivation behind these companies) https://shadysam.com/

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09/03/2024
Activity: Sask DLC Outcome 10 Lesson
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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

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09/06/2024
Activity: Sask DLC Outcome 1 Lesson
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The following resource from the Sask DLC Financial Literacy 10 course contains: a viewing guide for videos on various cultural perspectives on financial decisions, an article and information to help the students begin to write their own plans, and the "Money Story" Assignment

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08/28/2024
Activity: Sask DLC Outcome 6 Lesson
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10.6 Explain the principles of saving money and the importance of a savings mindset. This activity contains Sask DLC course material including a Saving Strategies Activity, Saving Philosophy Case Study Investing Early Case Study, rubrics and Sask DLC Videos

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09/13/2024
Activity: Saving / Investing Lessons & Assignments
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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. 

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09/19/2024
Activity: Savings Strategies
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Objective: Students will understand the principles of saving money and why adopting a savings mindset is crucial for long-term financial well-being.Indicators: Investigate different saving strategies (e.g., lump sum or at regular intervals, pre-authorized and random contributions). Examine advantages and disadvantages associated with various saving strategies. Identify appropriate savings strategies based on needs, wants and goals (e.g., 50 per cent needs/30 per cent wants/20 per cent savings, auto withdrawal, deposit only account, deductions at source).

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09/13/2024
Activity: Shortages and Surpluses
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A shortage or surplus of the goods we buy can have a significant impact on the prices we pay. Since the goods we buy are often made up of other goods, it’s common for a shortage or surplus anywhere in the supply chain to have a significant impact on the market. In this activity you will demonstrate shortages and surpluses, analyze what happens when they occur, and discuss how they can impact our daily lives.

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03/06/2024
Activity: Shrinkflation
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A product’s unit price can be helpful in comparison shopping, making sure you’re not paying more money for less of a product. But did you know that you should also be comparing the products you buy to...themselves?! Making products smaller while keeping the price the same is a sneaky way of raising prices. In this activity you’ll discuss how shrinkflation affects consumers and create your own plan to downsize a product in hopes that consumers won’t notice the difference.

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03/05/2024
Activity: Sport Betting Advertisements & Analysis
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10.2 Sports Betting Advertisements: Sports betting has become increasingly popular and advertisements promoting it are everywhere. Students will find a sports betting advertisement, analyze the target market and potential impact on the viewer. Students will discuss some of the aspects and questions about sports betting advertisements and use this information to create an awareness campaign to educate others about the impact of sports betting advertisements.

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06/26/2024