Learn how you can integrate financial education in your elementary classroom with fun and engaging activities.  In this session, you will learn strategies to teach financial concepts and engage students in their learning, explore relevant and age-appropriate cross-curricular resources, and develop your students’ numeracy, literacy and financial literacy skills. Leave with great ideas for infusing financial literacy education into your classroom.

Audience: Elementary

Resources:

• InspireFinancialLearning.ca (IEF’s educator website), Blog, Parent site
  • Concept map (Financial Literacy across the curriculum)
  • Lessons: Pennywise, What influences our spending?, Tower building, Duct tape wallet, wallet gallery,
  • Media: What teens save for (infographic), Emma asks the experts (video), Summative project (video), Can we count you in? (video)
  • Tools: Dollar Decision$, History of Money, Currency Match Quiz, Cranial Cash Clash
  • and more! FunnyMoney, Talking with your kids about money,
• GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca (IEF’s consumer website)
• Ministry documents: Financial Literacy Scope and Sequence Grades 4-8
• Edugains Financial Literacy website
• Visit the resource page and recording for Peter Wright’s presentation on this topic (May 1, 2014).