Checks, Toys, and Fun

*Checks, Toys, and Fun*
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Problems Addressed:

• What can we do to help kids prepare for their financial future?

– Teach them how to deposit money in a checking account
– Balance a checkbook
– Write checks

Who Helped Us?

• Received $400 in Kluck Grants
• Worked with the local 8 th grade career orientation teacher
• Banks supplied us with check registers and deposit slips to use as teaching materials
• Middle School Education majors helped us to focus our curriculum

Information & Testing

• Kids were given pre- and post-tests to measure what they learned
• The kid with the highest score on the post-test won a free portable CD player!
• The curriculum covered the financial literacy and success skills objectives
• There was a 32.125% percent knowledge increase and 20% of students scored 100% on the post test.
• Seminar Addressed Financial Literacy and included Market Economics, Entrepreneurship

Implementation:

• Getting Ready

– Used the Kluck Grant to buy toys for our SIFE Store.
– Developed our own specially tailored curriculum in accordance with teacher’s objectives, personal experience, and the banks’ advice.
– We tried to teach what would benefit the students’ lives as well as help the teacher.

• Teaching

– Three SIFE members each covered a different topic:
Deposit slips
Checkbook registers
Checks
– The members liked to add personal anecdotes to help engage the students with fun and meaningful situations that they might one day encounter.

• The Big Purchase

– To apply what the kids learned, we wrote the kids a fake check for being a “Cool Student”
– They deposited the money using deposit slips
– Wrote checks to buy toys from our SIFE Store
– Recorded the transactions in their registers

Back

Problems Addressed:

• What can we do to help kids prepare for their financial future?

– Teach them how to deposit money in a checking account
– Balance a checkbook
– Write checks

Who Helped Us?

• Received $400 in Kluck Grants
• Worked with the local 8 th grade career orientation teacher
• Banks supplied us with check registers and deposit slips to use as teaching materials
• Middle School Education majors helped us to focus our curriculum

Information & Testing

Implementation:

• Getting Ready

– Used the Kluck Grant to buy toys for our SIFE Store.
– Developed our own specially tailored curriculum in accordance with teacher’s objectives, personal experience, and the banks’ advice.
– We tried to teach what would benefit the students’ lives as well as help the teacher.

• Teaching

– Three SIFE members each covered a different topic:
Deposit slips
Checkbook registers
Checks
– The members liked to add personal anecdotes to help engage the students with fun and meaningful situations that they might one day encounter.

• The Big Purchase

– To apply what the kids learned, we wrote the kids a fake check for being a “Cool Student”
– They deposited the money using deposit slips
– Wrote checks to buy toys from our SIFE Store
– Recorded the transactions in their registers

Back

Problems Addressed: • What can we do to help kids prepare for their financial future?

– Teach them how to deposit money in a checking account – Balance a checkbook – Write checks

Who Helped Us?

• Received $400 in Kluck Grants • Worked with the local 8 th grade career orientation teacher • Banks supplied us with check registers and deposit slips to use as teaching materials • Middle School Education majors helped us to focus our curriculum

Information & Testing

Implementation:

• Getting Ready

– Used the Kluck Grant to buy toys for our SIFE Store. – Developed our own specially tailored curriculum in accordance with teacher’s objectives, personal experience, and the banks’ advice. – We tried to teach what would benefit the students’ lives as well as help the teacher.

• Teaching

– Three SIFE members each covered a different topic: Deposit slips Checkbook registers Checks – The members liked to add personal anecdotes to help engage the students with fun and meaningful situations that they might one day encounter.

• The Big Purchase

– To apply what the kids learned, we wrote the kids a fake check for being a “Cool Student” – They deposited the money using deposit slips – Wrote checks to buy toys from our SIFE Store – Recorded the transactions in their registers

Back

Problems Addressed:

• What can we do to help kids prepare for their financial future?

– Teach them how to deposit money in a checking account
– Balance a checkbook
– Write checks

• Received $400 in Kluck Grants
• Worked with the local 8 th grade career orientation teacher
• Banks supplied us with check registers and deposit slips to use as teaching materials
• Middle School Education majors helped us to focus our curriculum

– Used the Kluck Grant to buy toys for our SIFE Store.
– Developed our own specially tailored curriculum in accordance with teacher’s objectives, personal experience, and the banks’ advice.
– We tried to teach what would benefit the students’ lives as well as help the teacher.

– Three SIFE members each covered a different topic:
Deposit slips
Checkbook registers
Checks
– The members liked to add personal anecdotes to help engage the students with fun and meaningful situations that they might one day encounter.

– To apply what the kids learned, we wrote the kids a fake check for being a “Cool Student”
– They deposited the money using deposit slips
– Wrote checks to buy toys from our SIFE Store
– Recorded the transactions in their registers