Spending and Saving Money

Helping students take control

• Spending and Taking Control – This is a link to a chapter in CFEE’s book “Money and Youth” that focuses on spending and taking control of your money.

• Saving and Investing Money – This is a link to a chapter in CFEE’s book “Money and Youth” that focuses on saving and investing money.

• Building Futures Network – A web site by the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education.

• Shopping and Spending – This is the section from the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education’s web site “Managing Your Money in Canada” that focuses on shopping and spending.

• Get Smarter About Money – A website by the Investors Education Fund.

• How to Save Money – The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s website teaching teens about how to save money.

• Money and Youth – A web site of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education.

• The City – A program on the website of the British Columbia Securities Commission.

• It’s My Life Game – U.S. site: PBS Kids – It’s My Life – free game teaching kids about wants and needs.

• Learning to Give – U.S. site: Learning to Give includes a lesson for young children, introducing financial terms such as spend, save, invest and donate.

• Sense and Dollars – U.S site:  Sense and Dollars – a game that teaches kids about earning, spending, budgeting and saving money.  It is sponsored by Maryland Public Television.

• Shopping at a Virtual Mall – Note there are ads on this site: Math Playground – this game provides a chance for kids to practice math while shopping at a virtual mall.

• The Money Instructor – U.S. site – Money Instructor website including lessons and worksheets on spending money.

• When They Want Blueberries Lesson – U.S site: When They Want Blueberries – This free lesson plan package explores several economic concepts:  making choices, opportunity cost, saving, natural resources, capital resources, and human resources.

Videos:

• David Chilton (The Wealthy Barber Returns) – This is a link to David Chilton’s video from CFEE’s Entrepreneurship: The Spirit of Adventure video series.
• Spending and Saving – This is an Investor Education Fund short video with David Chilton and Rob Carrick discussing spending and saving.

• Spending and Saving – A Globe and Mail video about spending and saving.

• Teaching Kids to Save ­- This is an Investor Education Fund short video that talks about teaching kids to save.

• Why Teach Kids About Money – This is an Investor Education Fund short video that talks about the need to teach kids about money.

• Escape from Barter Islands – U.S. site: A free video game called “Escape from Barter Islands.” It teaches making choices.

• Money Management – U.S. site: A CBS video about young children learning in the classroom about money management.

• The Berenstein Bears – Trouble With Money – This is a video the children get caught up in trying to earn money to buy things, and forget about other things that are important. There are also lessons about spending.

• Spending Money Wisely – A video talking about spending money wisely.

• Videos on Money Topics – U.S. site: Videos on many money topics, organized in age groups.