We make learning about the economy fun, with online resources available to suit your curriculum. Or let us do it for you! Pop into the Museum for one of our free school programs. While booking, don’t forget to leave time to visit our fun, interactive exhibitions.
School Programs
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Trading Planets
Grades 4 to 8
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 uses interactive, game-based learning to teach about trade, currency, and supply and demand.
Inflation Busters
Grades 9 to 12
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. Who knew learning about monetary policy could be fun? We did!
Surprise, it’s money!
Grades 3 to 8
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.
Reservations are required:
613-782-8884
museum-musee@bankofcanada.ca
Lesson Plans
April 3, 2020
This fun financial literacy activity will teach kids how to make financial decisions.
Avatar Market
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March 16, 2020
This lesson will introduce three basic economic concepts: consumers and producers, goods and services, and trade. Students will define key economic terms and play a game to understand the benefits of trade.
Trade Rules
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January 29, 2020
Students will use the concept of historical significance to nominate an iconic Canadian as a portrait subject for the Bank of Canada’s new $5 bank note. They will then create a design for their proposal.
A Bank NOTE-able Canadian
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December 2, 2019
Students will learn about comparative advantage, opportunity cost and specialization and how these key economic concepts help countries around the world benefit from trade. They will participate in activities to better understand these concepts and make links to today’s global economy.
Trading Up: How Countries Benefit from Free Trade
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October 25, 2019
The new bank note featuring Viola Desmond provides an excellent opportunity to teach about the concept of historical significance.
A Noteworthy Woman
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September 26, 2019
Students will learn about inflation: what it is, what it means and how it’s measured. They will also learn about how the consumer price index is calculated and create their own student price index to measure the prices that matter in their everyday lives.
Price Check: Inflation in Canada
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October 5, 2018
This lesson idea will help students learn about the design of Canadian bank notes.
For Teachers: Designing a Bank Note that Reflects Canada
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September 5, 2017
Teach your students about Canada’s history, land and culture – with money!
Build a Bank Note: Classroom Resource for Teachers
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Education Blog
September 16, 2019
The Bank of Canada Museum would like to hear from teachers across Canada to help design new online resources for economic literacy.
For Teachers: National Teachers Survey
Economy, Plain and Simple
It’s right there in the title— Economy, Plain and Simple: Plain language. Complex concepts made as simple as possible—thanks to the efforts of our economists and a supporting cast of communications professionals. The results are short, quick reads, with engaging visuals, all on a mobile-friendly platform—so you can read them on the go.
Money and Monetary Policy in Canada
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.
The Bank of Canada also has some educational resources we think you may find helpful.
School Bursary Program
Need some assistance getting your class to the Museum?
If you are a school in need and in the National Capital Region, let us help with our transportation bursary.
