Financial Basics is a resource to help students learn about budgeting, saving, credit, investing, fraud prevention and financial planning.
The resource includes:
- Presenter's Manual (Teacher Guide), 64 pages, English or French, online PDF or print.
- Participants' Handbook (Student Guide), 47 pages, English or French, online PDF or print.
- Presentation slides (PowerPoint format), 98 slides, English or French.
- E-learning Videos, 8 videos, one video for each module, English or French.
Description of modules:
- Module 1 - Introduction
- Module 2 - Budgeting
- Module 3 - Managing Your Cost of Living - Being a Smart Consumer
- Module 4 - Credit and Debt Management
- Module 5 - Saving and Investing
- Module 6 - Setting Financial Goals
- Module 7 - Protect Yourself
- Module 8 - Summary and Wrap-up
This Canadian textbook 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. The headings include: Goals, Values and Decision-making; Getting and Earning Money; Spending Money and Taking Control; Borrowing Money and Using Credit; Saving and Investing Money; and 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
and grades. Suggested curriculum outcomes are identified and, if applicable, supporting indicators
are noted.
The purpose of the presentation is to describe strategies teachers can use to approach content that may be perceived as sensitive in their community in order to:
- ensure the learning environment is safe for respectful dialogue;
- teach students how to think critically about any topic with an open mind; and,
- meet curricular outcomes.
Saskatchewan context, differentiation is addressed through the Adaptive Dimension which enables all teachers to respond to student diversity, including their strengths and needs, interests, backgrounds, life experiences and motivations.