Develop an understanding and importance of the key aspects for financial literacy in grades 4-8. Explore the key characteristics of financial literacy to assist students in understanding the value of money.
Course Overview
Develop an understanding and importance of the key aspects for financial literacy in grades 4-8. Learn approaches to create and design lessons pertaining to earning income, buying goods and services, wants vs. needs, and saving and investing for the future. Explore the key characteristics of financial literacy to assist students in understanding the value of money. This course is recommended for grades 4 through 8.
Course Learning Objectives:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of financial literacy at an early age.
2. Approaches to identifying sources of personal income.
3. Applying consumer related skills to purchase decisions (wants/needs).
4. Evaluate savings options for future purchases.
5. Develop and explain savings goals for the future.
Course Relation to CCS or other Professional Standards:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ps/index.asp; NCATE CCS, ISTE; National and State Standards
MP.1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MP.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP.3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
MP.4: Model with mathematics.
MP.5: Use appropriate tools strategically
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