These Parent Guides contain fun activities that parents and children can do together to enhance learning personal financial principles and skills. The Parent Guides link to the content contained in the FFFL Teacher Guide and Student Workbook at the same grade level, and are a valuable out-of-classroom enhancement to the lessons students are learning during the school day.
The parent guide contains activities that are fun for parents and children to do together to enhance learning personal financial principles and skills.
The parent guide contains activities that are fun for parents and children to do together to enhance learning personal financial principles and skills.
Pocket Power is an enhanced learning system for personal finance education that appeals to young children at all learning levels. The 16 lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities and assessments.
Innovations in Economic Education addresses the growing issue of financial illiteracy by showing how economics can be successfully integrated into classrooms from kindergarten through higher education. Pre-service teachers, experienced educators, curriculum leaders, parents, and school administrators will find practical ideas to improve economic understanding. At the elementary level, the book provides creative ways of introducing young students to the basic concepts of economics, financial justice, and social action. For higher grade levels, the book offers ideas to integrate economics into current history, civics, and math curricula. The final portion of the book features recommendations by leading economic educators on how economics can play a greater role in teachers’ professional development. The pedagogical tools presented in each chapter include lesson plans and practical insights, and are designed to meet the NCSS, C3 Framework, and Common Core State Standards for Social Studies. This book is a timely and valuable resource for all educators interested in improving their students’ economic literacy and financial decision-making.
Lessons emphasize narrative drama, and physical representations of economics and personal finance concepts, including: making coins out of salt dough or cookie dough; a song that teaches students about opportunity cost and decisions; and a game in which students learn the importance of savings. The teacher guides contain the pedagogy and lesson descriptions while the student workbooks contain the corresponding exercises to be used in and out of the classroom.
