Category: Financial Literacy

Lesson: Money Responsibility: Successful management includes keeping a record of spending, knowing how much money is available, and how much money you need to save for future needs. Spending more than you have can be wasteful and also leads to debt. Staying out of debt is easier if you have …

Lesson: Comparison: Recognizing the need to conduct research before making a purchase decision is an important skill. To make a good decision, you must consider all aspects of a situation or a possible purchase.  Your Destination: Using the art of comparison, you should decide who should have the money in …

Lesson: Spending, Saving, and Giving: Money can be used in three ways: to spend, to save, and to give. When we spend, it can be spent on things that we need or for things that we want but don’t need. A budget is a plan you can use to spend …

Lesson: Investing: is giving something (usually money) towards something else in order to get more back. The first sister in the story was respectful and invested her choice wisely by choosing the smaller pot and gaining everything it offered. Investing wisely is an important lesson when it comes to our …

Lesson: Sharing: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: Describe how to share and apply their knowledge of sharing to be able to share in real-life situations.  Your Destination: In this activity, you are going to create and decorate your own paper pizza that you can …

Lesson Plan: Using your gifts and talents: Each person has their own set of skills and talents that they learn as they grow. It is important to use these to the best of your abilities and not waste the talent you have like the hunter did. In this story, the …

Lesson: The moral of this story is to listen to the advice and wisdom of those around you. The new king did not listen and was humiliated. It is important to learn to listen to people you trust and who want the best for you. Doing what seems right in …