The Financial Fitness for Life series is an award-winning curriculum that is correlated to standards in language arts, mathematics, economics and personal finance. Each lesson includes background information, preparation materials, student activities and assessments.

          The Steps to Financial Fitness curriculum for grades 3-5 has 15 activity-based lessons where students make strategic decisions about earning an income, saving and spending money, using credit and budgeting. Sample activities include:

☼     Analyzing why the pay for various jobs is different

☼     Differentiating between fact and opinion in advertisements

☼     Role playing the buying of goods and services with different methods of payment

☼     Analyzing a fable to determine the opportunity cost of not saving

Activities are available for assignment to be completed at home with parents, using the Parent Guide for Financial Fitness.

The workshop is free and participants get a Teacher’s Guide, a Student Workbook, a Parent Guide, and a CD-Rom. NO ECONOMICS BACKGROUND IS REQUIRED.

Workshop is two sessions: Feb. 21& 22, 4:00-5:30

University of Memphis, Fogelman College

Workshop made possible by a grant from Bank of America