Break the ice, involve the students in conversation with each other and bind personal finances with these fixed THREE New activities!
1. 15-point pick-up
Mixing, mixing and making meaningful talking money while they form groups to answer daring financial questions and collect 15 points!
Materials: Teachers’ guide
2. Would you rather …?
Meet your students while they are debating about difficult choices, such as: Do you prefer … do you not have TV subscriptions or no music subscriptions?
The activity includes 20 scenarios that cause students’ discussion about financial decisions. Play it in your way by making a movement, including Jenga, or something else!
Materials: Teachers’ guide
3. Rapid-Fire Finance Face-Off
Set your class with this fast partner activity where students change stories and investigate how values, emotions and prejudices are our money decisions. The behavioral economy meets speed dating – no correct answers, just really talked.
Materials: Teachers’ guide
Tip of teachers: Although these activities are designed to break the ice at the start of the school year, you can use them all year round to offer a fun and fascinating experience in your classroom!
Participate in our virtual PD on August 6 at 2 p.m. pt/5 p.m. et: First day, dear day: nice starters for a great school year to get even more ideas to start the school year!
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Sonia Dalal
Sonia has always been passionate about instruction and improving the learning experiences of students. She has taken a long way since her days as the first class, when she would “teach” music and read her very attentive hugs after school. Since then she has taught students as a K-12-tutor, worked in various Edtech startups in the Bay Area and completed her Ed.m in the education of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about bringing the high -quality personal financial content and instruction that she wish she had received at school to the next generation of students and educators. When she does not make lessons or work with teachers, Sonia likes to spend her time singing, being outside and adventures with family and friends!
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