This online activity book includes 10 topics. Boarding directors and staff may wish to choose one topic per month. 

Activity Book 2 will be published during 2018.

The topics are:

1. Learning - Attributes of financial learners
2. Needs & wants - Pocket money
3. Choices - Financial decisions
4. Shopping - Online
5. Probability - Gambling
6. Saving - Saving v Investing: The difference
7. Cause Effect - Financial future
8. Perspectives - Quotations to think about
9. Guidance - Financial help
10. Wealth - Wealth perspectives

Facilitator notes available

This activity gives you an opportunity to debate the topic: Boarders learn how to spend when boarding, not how to save.

There is a view that says boarders get an allowance and then spend that allowance. Boarders are never encouraged to save, so they do not think about saving. This creates a future problem for boarders, because they have only learnt how to spend, not save!

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The purpose of this video is to help you understand concepts related to gambling, specifically related to gaming machines or pokies.

Facilitator notes - coming soon.

The purpose of this video is to make students think about the importance of habits, especially those that relate to your use of money.
It is very important while they are young to develop good habits that relate to money.

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The purpose of this video is to help you think about the topic of investment and the process of investing. It includes an interview with a young financial planner representing the Financial Planning Association of Australia.

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This video slideshow introduces students to the concept of investing in yourself, that is investing in your own development. It moves from examples of people investing in their health, their life experiences, their music ability etc and then into the idea of investing in their 'financial self'. The slideshow then provides examples of how teenagers can do so.

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This topic encourages students with interests in financial learning to form their own club. It prompts them to consider the protocols and processes for forming a club, the challenges and benefits that accrue, and the notion of running a pilot to see if a club is workable.

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