North Dakota Securities Department and NTC invite you to use these e-learning resources to teach your students about financial literacy. The digital materials below are designed to get your students excited about understanding this important subject.
Want to know the best way to use the related videos, games, Money Smart 2.0 curriculum and smart speaker activity to educate your class? Watch this short video and learn how to add Spend it or Save it to your curriculum.
We know your class time is extremely valuable. That’s why we ensure that all of our digital e-learning materials are aligned with state and national educational standards. It’s important that the Spend it or Save it digital program adds to your existing curriculum and keeps students on track with their ongoing learning.
See below for details about how each digital activity aligns with educational standards and corresponds with your state’s curricula.
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This 35-minute financial literacy program is for grades 6-8. Through entertaining sketches featuring a variety of characters, Spend it or Save it teaches the following educational points:
Laughing while learning, your students will experience important lessons about financial literacy.
Utilize the interactive eLearning materials based on the Spend it or Save it program in your classroom. These materials include ready-to-use activities, such as assessments, multiple-choice questions (MCQs), fill-in-the-blank exercises, true/false questions, flashcards, open-ended questions, and games.
Your students can enhance what they learn from the program with these fun, hands-on lessons and experiments. These lessons can be done in the classroom or easily adapted for students to do at home with their families.
They’re a fun and educational way for students to learn with family members. The materials needed for these lessons are basic supplies that most people have at home. Follow up with your students to make sure they enjoyed and learned from these activities.
Money Smart 2.0 is an exciting interactive exploration of the concepts of money. This standards-aligned, cross-curricular curriculum is designed to promote financial understanding in middle school students. You can use Money Smart 2.0 to add engaging and enriching activities to Math, English Language Arts and Social Studies lessons while also helping your students build the foundation to become financially responsible adults.
Follow-up, formative assessments for you to gauge the learning of your students are especially important with e-learning. Below are some suggestions for how you can assess your students’ performance quickly and effectively.
These assessments are easy for you and your students to complete and help ensure your class is getting the maximum educational value, retention and engagement from the related digital activities.
| Draw a concept map | |||||
| Write three things another student may misunderstand about the topic | |||||
| Journal reflection | |||||
| Submit screenshot of completed activity | |||||
| Hand in completed activity | |||||
| Have students make collages relating to the topic | |||||
| Have students host their own talk show relating to the topic | |||||
Each student rolls a die and briefly answers aloud a question based on the number rolled:
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| Present students with an analogy prompt: “The concept being covered is like ____ because ____.” |
The Spend it or Save it student activities page features games, videos and newly redesigned Money Smart 2.0 curriculum with additional lessons about financial literacy. Access in the classroom or at home to learn more about financial literacy and have fun exploring Spend it or Save it!
This downloadable PDF features colorful artwork, entertaining games and activities, and expanded information to complete your understanding of energy efficiency. Read on your own, with your class, or with friends and family and get to know the characters of Spend it or Save it.
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