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)

Indigenous communities have traditionally shown skill and strength in managing resources to support their community on an ongoing basis. People have understood and practiced the concepts of budgeting and saving, managing resources by budgeting so that they last the year, and putting aside savings for future use. In today’s economy, managing money can feel stressful at times. A helpful step is to identify goals for you and your family. This booklet provides a set of  activities to help you do that. The worksheets can help you plan your money goals, track your spending, make a budget, and get ready for tax time. The land is our teacher. It teaches us about saving, sustainability and security. At creation animals, birds and fish were asked what they could teach humans. The animal world said humans can learn from our values, character and behaviour. In this booklet the animals will teach you about managing your money. Simon BrascoupéAnishinabeg/Haudenausanee Bear ClanMember of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First NationVice-President Education and Training, AFOA Canada

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.

Book Studies can be done as independent or in-class activities. Some teachers designate one day per week in class to read the book they have assigned, while others create a reading schedule. Various projects and assignments are suggested here to help the students and teachers learn from the book they have read. One thing is for sure.. there are a lot of excellent financial books for students to read and learn from! 

Here are some suggestions for business education and financial literacy training for teachers. Several of these are online and quick programs to take. McGill Personal Finance Essentials, U of S Personal Finance Course: Edwards School of Business- Comm 229, U of R Personal Finance Course: Hill School of Business- Bus 291, Sask Polytech Personal Finance Course: Continuing Education FIN-100 Business Certificate 1 year program at U of S, Sask Polytech and U of R, Sask Business Teachers Association Conference May (first weekend each year), Hill Entre Online Course: Imagineur The Canadian Program for Creativity 

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.

English for Financial Literacy is an instructor’s resource for teaching financial literacy concepts and skills in LINC and adult ESL programs at CLB levels 1 to 8. The main objective of English for Financial Literacy is to help instructors incorporate financial literacy content into their program planning and teaching, and support them in learning about key topics and concepts related to financial matters.Full workbooks and audio files accompany this resource. 

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.

Minding Your Money: Skills for Life is a digital financial education course with four lessons that teach learners about navigating the various financial stages of life, identifying your financial values, understanding the relationship between finances and mental health, and how to develop healthy financial boundaries in relationships. Learners will understand how to develop financial stability. Finally, they will learn about how their financial values can influence their goals and behaviours. Includes SK curriculum connections, lesson plans, online interactive lesson bank, assessment keys for teachers and a teacher portal to manage grades and student work.  LanguagesEnglish - US, Spanish - US, English - CA TopicFinancial Education, Health & Wellness Duration: 45 minutes

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

Financial Basics is a workshop designed to teach young adults essential financial skills, including budgeting, saving, credit management, investing, fraud prevention, and financial planning.

Included: presenter's manual, participant's notebooks, presentation slides, evaluation form, learning videos.

If you'd like hard copies of the materials, allow 4 to 6 weeks for order fulfillment.

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - Budgeting
Module 3 - Managing Cost of Living
Module 4 - Credit & Debit Management
Module 5 - Saving & Investing
Module 6 - Financial Goals
Module 7 - Protect Yourself
Module 8 - Summary

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

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.

Here are some fun activities that can be done in the Financial Literacy classroom as Ice Breakers to start the year: Tell Me What This Means - group project that students can work through together to figure out financial messages; Sure Fire Ice Breakers- a big variety; Would You Rather- fun way to start the year and get to know your students; Fin Lit Bingo- allows students to get to know each other; Truth About Millionaires- this could be a fun way to get the students discussing wealth, myths and open up the class with each other; Draw the Logos- students could have fun drawing these logos from memory. You could have a discussion about business, marketing and the influence of these companies on our shopping mindset (and how easily we recall their logo, which means we are more likely to buy their products)

"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).

"The world of money is one area where many people often feel they lack control. Many, if not most, Canadians never had much in the way of financial education – at school or from parents. We hope to change that for the next generation. [Note to Parents and Teachers – Guides are with each Module.]"

Module 1 - Your Money Decisions: Who's in Control
Module 2 - Your Goals and Values
Module 3 - Your Goals: Some Things to Consider
Module 4 - Decision Making
Module 5 - Sources of Income
Module 6 - Career Under Construction: Investing in You
Module 7 - Are You an Entrepreneur?
Module 8 - Money Basics
Module 9 - Taking Control of your Money
Module 10 - Spending on Major Purchases
Module 11 - Borrowing Money
Module 12 - Getting and Managing Credit
Module 13 - Putting Your Money to Work: Saving and Investing
Module 14 - Protecting Assets - and Planning for Financial Independence

This volume presents the financial literacy results of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 and examines 15-year-old students’ understanding of money matters in 20 countries and economies. It explores the links between their financial literacy and their competencies in mathematics and reading, and differences across socio-demographic groups. It also offers an overview of their experiences with money, their financial behaviour and attitudes, and their exposure to financial literacy at home and in school. It assesses the extent to which students in twenty participating countries and economies have the knowledge and skills, acquired both in and outside of school, that are essential for making financial decisions and plans for their future. Many 15-year-olds face financial decisions and are already consumers of financial services. They are likely to face growing complexity and risks in the financial marketplace as they move into adulthood. Since better knowledge and understanding of financial concepts and risks could help improve financial decision-making amongst adults and young people, financial literacy is now globally recognised as an essential life skill. 

"A one-stop-shop for educators working to increase students’ financial literacy skills. This program is built by teachers to provide resources and activities that connect directly to 42 modules in Saskatchewan’s Financial Literacy 20, 30 curriculum. Free middle years and secondary level content can be accessed on the site, and educators can inquire about professional development opportunities."

These are some suggested plans to organize Financial Literacy 10, 20 and 30 courses, based on teacher feedback and planning.