Grade 8 - Financial Literacy Unit - Ontario Math - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 8 - Financial Literacy Unit - Lesson/Workbook Bundle - Ontario Math Curriculum. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 Financial Literacy unit in the Ontario Math Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all expectations in the Grade 8 - Ontario Math Curriculum - Strand: Financial Literacy.

There are 121 activity sheets for your students to learn and practice the specific expectations in the curriculum. Using this resource will ensure that your students will be learning the new curriculum.

Within this updated resource, we have added more hands-on activities to this already BEST-SELLING workbook. In addition, we’ve added more worksheets that use examples from the Ontario math curriculum.

Check out a preview of this resource to see how it will benefit you and your students.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Converting currencies to Canadian (CAD)
• Comparing the values or different currencies
• Answer word problems that involve currency exchanges
• Describing some advantages and disadvantages of various method of payments
• The pros and cons of using different methods of payment to convert currencies
• Assignment – Researching currencies – denominations, value, exchange rate to CAD
• Creating personal well-balanced budgets – income, earnings, expenses, and savings
• Analyzing pre-made budgets that are made for a scenario (e.g. saving for college)
• Creating a financial plan to reach long-term financial goals
• The difference between gross and net income
• Calculating income tax using tax brackets and using this information to calculate net income
• Typical wages and salaries in your community
• Simple interest versus compound interest
• Cost of borrowing over time
• Using compound interest calculators online to see the power of compound interest
• Earnings actualized by investing long-term (compound interest)
• Comparing credit card fees and offers (rewards)
• Customer loyalty programs – research assignment and other activities
• Evaluating incentive programs from different businesses
• Getting more value for your money – buying second hand safely
• Consumer contracts – cell phones, video and music streaming examples
• Hands-on Activities: Role Play: Financial Planning Role Play, Memory Game: Interest Version.
• Exit Cards x 6
• 1 Unit Test
• Answer Pages

Google Lesson Slides:

Grade 8 - Financial Literacy Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Ontario Math. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Financial Literacy, Grade 8, Ontario Math Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.