- Financial Literacy Are your middle school students prepared to
make sound economic decisions in the ways of income, spending,
saving, borrowing, investing and managing money? The Financial
Fitness for Life materials were written based on real-world
concepts, and let teachers present them in a manner that
reinforces learning through practice, helping prepare students
for life beyond the classroom. The Grades 6-8 Teacher Guide was
designed to be used with Financial Fitness for Life’s student
workbooks to teach personal finance. You will measure your
students’ progress in four themes of personal finance: earning
an income, saving, spending and credit, and money management.
Between these four themes there are 17 lessons, each focusing on
a different topic and ranging in length from one 45-minute
period to a week’s worth of classroom experience. Lessons for
older students illustrate certain uses of more abstract
representations. Specific to grades 6-8 are a variety of
activities, including developing criteria th