Explore how value systems, social factors, personal experiences and cultural backgrounds can influence financial decision-making.
| (a) | Explore the impact value systems developed in childhood can have on attitudes towards finances. |
| (b) | Investigate how culture, religion and family belief systems can influence trust in, and value of, financial institutions. |
| (c) | Explore how social influences and personal experiences shape one’s attitudes toward financial decision-making. |
| (d) | Examine various cultural perspectives on income, budgeting, saving, sharing and accessing credit. |
| (e) | Research various approaches to financial decision-making based on different perspectives or traditions (e.g., halal banking, Indigenous beliefs on sharing). |
| (f) | Discuss how community and societal norms (e.g., expectations regarding gender roles) influence the financial well-being of self, family and community. |
Through an animated story, real-life interview and slides that present relevant facts, this 30-minute video explains the connection between mental health and personal finances.
Story summary:
Follow Maxine and her friends, Andrew and Yuvraj, as they discover how being cost-conscious and developing positive spending habits can be beneficial to one’s mental health.
Rather fortuitously, Maxine, who just that evening received a dreaded "insufficient funds" message while attempting to buy dinner for her friends, comes across and downloads a personal finance management app called "Blue Skies".
Our trio of characters then receive and learn from the actionable advice of our "real-world" host of the app and apply it to their everyday life in an animated world.
Video sections:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 01:56 Impact of finances
- 06:00 Finding help
- 12:46 Connection between finances and mental health
- 15:40 Responsible financial decisions
- 24:47 Budgeting
This website contains important information on the Canadian banking system.
Here are some examples:
- Banking basics focus sheets on various financial topics, including:
- Credit cards: Use and benefits
- Protection against fraud and scams
- Alternatives to payday loans
- Banking sector services for Indigenous Peoples
- Opening a bank account
- Representation of women at banks in Canada
- Your Money Students program:
- A free financial education seminar for Canadian high school students delivered in-class by bankers who volunteer their time in their communities.
- Lifestyle Reality Check: Interactive budgeting online app
- Canadian bank milestones: An infographic timeline of banking history in Canada
- Current Canadian banking statistics
The Indigenous Edition of Money and Youth builds on the original resource from the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, CFEE. Damon Johnston, President of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg, provided guidance rooted in traditional teachings and the Seven Sacred Laws. Vanessa Everett, CEO of Economic Development with the Keewatin Tribal Council, adapted the original version by Gary Rabbior of CFEE. Input from respected individuals across Turtle Island also helped shape this edition.
Topics covered:
- Goals, Values and Decision-making
- Getting and Earning Money
- Spending Money and Taking Control
- Borrowing Money and Using Credit
- Saving and Investing Money
- Protecting Assets and Planning for the Future.
The resource includes:
- Student Guide, English, free online PDF version or hard copies can be ordered at a minimal fee
- Teacher's Guide, English, free online version
This Canadian resource supports the Financial Literacy curriculum and provides information at a suitable introductory level. The resource is organized under six headings for a total of 15 modules.
Topics covered:
- Goals, Values and Decision-making
- Getting and Earning Money
- Spending Money and Taking Control
- Borrowing Money and Using Credit
- Saving and Investing Money
- Protecting Assets and Planning for the Future.
The resource includes:
- Student Guide, English or French, free online PDF version or hard copies can be ordered at a minimal fee
- Teacher's Guide, English or French, free online version
This Canadian textbook is divided into five parts:
- Planning Your Personal Finances
- Managing Your Personal Finances
- Insuring Your Assets
- Investing Your Financial Resources
- Controlling Your Financial Future
The resource contains case studies, concept checks, assignments and assessment examples.
There are four purchase options:
- eBook
- eBook only (online version of textbook)
- Connect
- eBook, homework, adaptive assignments and study tools
- Connect and print text
- eBook, homework, adaptive assignments and study tools
- printed textbook
- Print text
- printed textbook only
SaskMoney is a website that has been created by the Saskatoon Industry Education Council (SIEC) to support Saskatchewan educators in implementing financial literacy curricula. The website provides a variety of activities and resources to increase students’ financial literacy skills.
The website includes:
- Online and printable teacher guides for Financial Literacy 10 outcomes and Financial Literacy 20, 30 modules that contain the following sections:
- Overview
- Suggested time
- Suggested activities
- Resources
- Assessment
- Student Sask Money Minute project overview
- Sask Money Minute videos on various subjects, including:
- Budgeting
- Saving
- Spending
- Borrowing
- Money Fair project overview