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
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 booklet uses the values, character and behaviour of animals to teach students about managing their money. The document highlights Indigenous worldviews when facing financial decisions.
Topics covered in this resource:
- Your money goals (loon)
- Tracking your regular income (chickadee)
- Tracking your spending (moose)
- Tracking your bills (turtle)
- Monthly budgeting (beaver)
- Setting a savings goal (bear)
- Preparing for tax filing (otter)
Note: The animals listed at the end of each topic depict the values, character and behaviour necessary to accomplish each task.
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
Junior Achievement Canada offers several resources that can support teaching and learning about financial literacy in Saskatchewan.
Suggested resources to support Financial Literacy 10 include:
Dollars With Sense
- Students learn personal money management skills that they can apply to their lives, including:
- Making smart financial decisions
- Living debt-free
- Becoming savvy investors
Economics For Success
- Students take a closer look at the importance of education to succeed in today's workforce and achieve their goals.
Personal Finance
- Students learn personal money management skills including spending wisely, budgeting, saving, investing and using credit.
Access Financial Literacy Experts
- Classroom presentations from experts in various fields of financial literacy can be arranged via Junior Achievement Canada, Saskatchewan Chapter, lsteinley@jasask.org.
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.
