IEF supports Ontario teachers in all subjects with classroom-ready tools and resources to develop the skills students need to make informed financial choices. The Mind Over Money lesson plans and tools supplement core subject materials and get students excited about personal finance. The Taking Stock in Your Future guides and activities introduce students to the major concepts that underpin financial literacy from understanding money to the study of wealth building and the capital markets.
Elementary lessons
- Advertising: behind the image
- All money present and account-ed for!
- And then it happened
- Bank it
- Duct tape wallet (art edition)
- Duct tape wallet (math edition)
- Financial challenges facing Canadian workers: political cartoon
- Food banks
- HST derby
- If money grew on trees
- Making money
- Mathlete: the costs of playing sports
- Money wisdom: give me your two cents worth
- My furry friend: costs of pet ownership
- Personal budgeting 101
- Pros and cons of hybrid cars
- Should the rich pay more tax?
- Supermarket sweep
- The classroom store
- The Money dilemma: a comic strip
- Tower building on a budget
- Trading market in ancient Greece
Secondary lessons
- Funny Money – Cost of borrowing
- Funny Money – Investing, part 1
- Funny Money – Investing, part 2
- Funny Money – Know your cash flow
- Funny Money – Saving vs. spending
- Funny Money – Setting priorities
- Funny Money – Understanding credit and your credit report
- Assessing profit margins
- Bank ads
- Buskerfest
- Cash goes mobile
- Comparing simple and compound interest
- Credit IQ quiz
- Earning methods and strategies
- Financing a new business – indoor bike park
- Forever compounding: teaching a novel study from a financial point of view
- Investment risk: how much can you handle?
- Keep your spending in check
- Making money by teaching music lessons
- Online scams and schemes
- Personal budgeting 101
- Prep my ride
- Price it right!
- The big bailout
- The cost of music piracy
- The currency match quiz
- Understanding government spending
- Value of a loonie
- What’s up doc? Healthcare in Canada
- Where’s my popcorn? Making sense of scarcity
- Zero-budget band
