By: Michael Golder
What do you remember learning about personal finance during your own K-12 schooling? My guess is not too much. How often do you hear students utter the phrase “Why are we learning this?” Likely more than once. Well here is a program that introduces the basics of personal finance to middle schoolers. Useful, relevant, real-life topics to start their journey toward understanding money and the role it plays in our lives.
I feel we have an opportunity while kids are in school to tackle these topics to hopefully increase the overall level of financial literacy of high school graduates. I have created an 18 lesson program aimed toward the middle school group (Grades 6, 7, 8) with the ultimate goal of expanding to include grades 9-12. The resource includes detailed instructions for each lesson, an accompanying video series and age appropriate activities for each topic as well as ideas for extensions to deepen student learning. The lesson outlines and videos are available on the Middle School Money Matters Google site and YouTube channel respectively (links below).
Check out the 3 Minute Thesis video below for a brief overview of the project.
3 Minute Thesis Video
GOOGLE SITE
https://sites.google.com/sd61learn.ca/middleschoolmoneymatters/home
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgFrXGxQ3PUW1KxcehXWOA
**Google Site and YouTube Channel are still works in progress.