MoneyMagnifier® Middles
We’re here to help you educate 6th-8th grade students’ so they can learn financial habits and strategies they can start using right away. Through a variety of materials that use real-life scenarios, they’ll be engaged with content to ensure learning. The content focuses on Saving, Spending, Borrowing, and Earning and Giving. Students in the Middles category will build habits now that will translate into their Financial Flexibility and Freedom® journey later.
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Activities
- Goal-Getters
- One of the best ways to get children engaged with financial learning is by making it worth their while! Take a vote between purchasing something they want versus an activity they’d like to do. Then, figure out ways your kids can work together to earn money for their goal, like having a bake sale or carwash.
- Publication Palooza
- Kids often need to visualize a concept before it sticks, and that’s okay! Find a stack of magazines or newspapers, along with some plain sheets of paper. Have your child create a t-chart and label one side as “needs”, and the other side as “wants.” Then, tell them to cut out items that fit into each category, and explain their reasoning behind each one.
- The Price is Right
- Sometimes, kids don’t realize how expensive day-to-day items can be. To help them foster a basic understanding, have your children write down all the things they think their grownups buy in a month. Then, challenge them to get as close as they can to an estimated total. The kid that gets the closest to the actual amount wins a prize!
- Goal-Getters
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Recommended Resources
- Financial-Learning Modules from EverFi Achieve®
- Our financial-learning partner, EverFi, knows what it takes to keep youth engaged in financial learning. Their web-based modules use real-life scenarios to teach how to make smart financial decisions.
- Plan, Save, Succeed! Challenge: Budget Basics (scholastic.com)
- Have your kids apply the knowledge they’ve learned about money basics by creating a budget and developing financial goals based on real-world scenarios.
- Reflecting on needs versus wants (consumerfinance.gov)
- This worksheet will help children differentiate between needs and wants, and learn to be more strategic about their spending and saving.
- Financial-Learning Modules from EverFi Achieve®
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Program Materials
- Smart Money Camp
- Designed to be used in any atmosphere, this content will keep children engaged while learning key financial concepts
- Career Cards Activity
- Split the Room Activity
- Trivia Activity
- Classroom Presentations
- These presentations, designed for the classroom, dive into financial education topics that are most important to middle-grade students
- Smart Money Camp
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