Global Money Week

Help your child learn about setting financial goals. Use a plant diagram to visually track their progress to save up for a special item.

Determine if something is a want or a need by sorting a stack of cards featuring different expenses. Use this hands-on activity to sharpen decision-making skills and financial literacy.

Practise counting and making change with Canadian money. Print, cut and use our realistic play money to practise saving, spending and recognizing coins and bank notes.

Organize a paper doll shop where students are given a budget to dress their character. Teach them to make financial decisions and calculate change with Canadian money.

Use money for skip counting and begin making change in different ways. Engaging worksheets will introduce elementary students to Canadian money and math.

Compare different payment methods, such as credit, debit and cash. This lesson plan uses a quiz, group work and scenarios to boost financial literacy.

Calculate unit prices and compare value for money. Use real-life shopping scenarios to determine if something is a real deal.

Introduce your students to foundational economic concepts using everyday examples.

Balance a monthly budget for a household and learn some financial saving and spending tips along the way.

Make investment decisions based on what’s important to you and see how your spending and earning connects you to the global economy.

Play our game to discover how your economic profile compares with those of other Canadians. Explore population and employment data and spending habits across different regions.

All about inflation: what it is, what it means and how it's measured. Students will learn how the consumer price index is calculated and create their own student price index to measure the prices that matter most to them.