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See and touch an amazing array of objects that have served as money at one time or another. Then join us in the Museum—explore the games, multimedia, videos and even more surprising artifacts. It’s fun, engaging, and a great way to learn the role the Bank of Canada plays in the Canadian economy.

Travel to planet Plutopia on a trade mission with your students. Once there, you will see that trading goods without a common currency poses some serious problems. Trading Planets, our new program for grades 4 to 8, uses interactive, game-based learning to teach about trade, currency, and supply and demand. Coming to the Museum in early 2019.

How do you plan for the future when you don’t know what things will cost? Join the fight against inflation in Inflation Busters, a game-based program for students in grades 10 to 12. Who knew learning about monetary policy could be fun? We did! Coming to the Museum in early 2019.

Money and Monetary Policy in Canada is a web resource to help educate Canadians on the mechanics of their economy and the Bank of Canada’s role in it. It’s written in fun, clear language and supplemented with helpful illustrations, meeting the needs of multiple levels of high school curricula.

Teach your students about Canada’s history, land and culture – with money! Download the free lesson plan.

Students in grades 9 to 12 will learn how to prevent losses due to bank note counterfeiting and identity crime.

This video series tells the story of the life of a polymer note. From the research and development of the notes through to the end of their life cycle, these videos explore the various stages in the life of Canada’s bank notes.

This section features materials and classroom resources to help students learn about Canadian bank notes.