I received an email today from Candice from iStudio. She was contacting me on behalf of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA). She wanted to tell me about an initiative called the FInancial Fitness Challenge. There is a contest attached to the challenge so I thought that I would pass it on to parents and teachers with high school students. I tried the Financial Fitness challenge and is a very interesting approach to teaching, anyone really, about investments. I was impressed with the approach to the delivery to online content and recommend it as a tool for use with e-learning.
I’ll let you decide, if you would recommend this information to your colleagues and parents.
This February, the CSA is once again launching their annual Financial Fitness Challenge (www.financialfitnesschallenge.ca ) an educational program designed to urge young Canadians to improve their financial literacy while vying for a chance to win one of 13 scholarship prizes worth $750.
………. the ’09 edition of the Financial Fitness Challenge .. program is focusing on building partnerships with not only Canadian students, but with teachers, schools, parents and networks like yours so that all Canadian students have a strong support system for understanding and enhancing their financial literacy. As a result, the Financial Fitness Challenge website offers a multitude of resources to help parents and teachers engage their students with the program and on a day to day basis at home and at school.
For at-home teachers, the Financial Fitness Challenge Website offers the teacher & parent resource centre http://www.financialfitnesschallenge.ca/en/teachers which includes helpful resource guides, classroom presentations and student worksheets to help teens better understand money, budgeting, saving and investing.
After teaching children about these financial tools, teens can then apply these skills on the Financial Fitness Challenge Website through the various interactive activities including warm-up activities, http://www.financialfitnesschallenge.ca/en/warmups tips http://www.financialfitnesschallenge.ca/en/village/pump-up/ and of course there is The Challenge http://www.financialfitnesschallenge.ca/en/challenge itself where students have an opportunity to win one of 13 scholarship prizes.
If you think that these resources would be beneficial to your community, I have provided a snapshot of a few fun and useful resources and activities that you might want to share.
What do you think?
