Family Economics

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Family Economics Financial Education

• A Collaborative Project Among

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Project Mission

• Provide educators with no-cost curriculum
  materials and the skills and confidence to
  effectively teach family economics and finance

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Curriculum Development

• Curriculum developed by educators for educators
• The team of educators developed, taught, and
  evaluated curriculum materials
• The educators were part of the projects Master
  Teacher program
• Educators complete a week-long training, use the
  curricula in their classrooms and provide
  continued support to FEFE through evaluation and
  development of new materials and newly trained
  family finance educators

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Curriculum Development

• Over 100 lesson plans currently available that
  have been tested and aligned to state and
  national standards
• Up-to-date
• Designed using a family based approach and the
  multiple intelligences model, in a ready-to-teach
  format requiring minimal educator preparation
• Lessons may be taught independently, in units, or
  as a semester course Take Charge of Your
  Finances
• Lessons available for many content courses
  (CTSOs, Culinary Arts, Child Development,
  Entrepreneurship)

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Curriculum TypesOver 100 Lessons

• Take Charge of Your Finances
• Approximately 60 lesson plans designed for
  students grades 10-12
• Get Ready to Take Charge of Your Finances
• Approximately 15 lesson plans designed for
  students grades 7-9, or those with limited
  financial knowledge
• Finance Simulations
• Applied assessments for both Take Charge and Get
  Ready curriculums

• Bulletin Boards
• Create a positive learning environment
• Active Learning Tools
• Quick activities to introduce a lesson, review
  content learned and/or keep students actively
  engaged
• Enhancement Tools
• Project based learning
• Workshop Guides
• The most important content condensed into a 60
  min workshop format

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Curriculum Design Coding
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Ready-to-Teach Design

• Lesson Plan
• Introduction
• All background information
• Body
• Recommended step-by-step facilitation
• Conclusion
• Activity based review
• Materials
• List of necessary supplies
• Resources
• Reference lesson plans, documents, Web sites and
  more for additional information

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Lesson Plan Components

• Worksheets
• Test students knowledge
• Consistent format
• Can be used in multiple ways
• Note taking guides
• Graphic organizers to help participants make note
  of key content within the lessons

• Answer Keys
• Created for all worksheets and assessments
• PowerPoint presentations
• Guides student learning
• Created for most lesson plans
• Information Sheets
• Serves as the students text book

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Curriculum Coding

• Designed to identify curriculum materials in each
  unit and lesson plan
• Code appears in the upper-right corner of all
  pages
• Understanding the coding system is critical to
  effectively navigating the Web site
• Helpful when asking the FEFE staff questions to
  reference the code
• Refer to Curriculum Coding System document

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Curriculum Coding

• First Number 1.4.3.A1
• Curriculum Type
• 1 Take Charge of Your Finances
• 2 Get Ready to Take Charge of Your Finances
• 3 Finance Simulations
• 4 Bulletin Boards
• 5 Active Learning Tools
• 6 Enhancement Tools
• 7 Workshop Guides
• Second Number 1.4.3.A1
• Unit Code 1-30

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Curriculum Coding

• Third Number 1.4.3.A1
• Lesson Plan Number
• Lesson Plans are not listed in recommended
  teaching order
• Fourth Number (Letter and Number) 1.4.3.A1
• Materials Code
• The number after the materials code
  differentiates between multiple materials of the
  same style
• Examples
• 1.4.3.A1
• 2.4.1.L1

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FREE Curriculum!

• All curriculum is available for no cost!
• Must create a user name and password to download
  materials
• Can edit personal profile at any time
• All spaces must be filled in for the profile to
  be created properly
• Can choose to receive important FEFE
  announcements including curriculum revisions, the
  bi-monthly newsletter, and training updates
• Can Contact Us to receive staff support

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Professional Development

• FEFE Newsletter with curriculum updates and
  important announcements
• Must have indicated Yes on the FEFE Web site
  log-in
• National Conference each June in Tucson, AZ
• A limited amount of grants will be available each
  January
• Week-long annual training conference
• Provide educators with background knowledge to
  teach personal finance
• Allow educators to experience the lesson plans to
  feel more comfortable teaching them
• Provide educators with all of the printed
  curriculum and materials necessary to teach the
  lesson plans
• Network with other professionals

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Family Finance Simulations

• Life in Life of

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Welcome to Life in

• Research based, ready-to-teach family finance
  spending plan simulation
• Designed to emulate the real life constraints
  households encounter when managing their finances
• Designed as a community of 25 individuals in 18
  households

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Life in Objectives

• Create a spending plan
• Provide realistic insights into the costs of
  living associated with the spending plan process
• Incorporate the use of the decision making
  process into daily life
• Demonstrate the relationship between income,
  education and career opportunities

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Boykin Family

• Have a cat named Melvin who costs 71 monthly
• Recently purchased a home
• Additional health care expenses for fertility
  drugs and saving money to adopt a child

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Spending Plan Process

• Complete a spending plan for scenario
• Housing
• Transportation
• Insurance
• Food
• Average expenditures
• Credit and Chance Cards
• Goal is to reach zero

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Sample Life In Housing Options
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Facilitation Methods

• Facilitator guided
• Semester course
• Throughout or at the end as an applied assessment
• Workshop (about 3 hours)
• Independent study
• Career development
• Your own creative way

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Family Economics Financial Education
Get ready to Take Charge of Your Finances
Life Of..
Taylor B. Jones
A Teenagers Spending Plan
Funded by a grant from Take Charge America, Inc.
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SnapshotTaylor B. Jones
SnapshotTaylor B. Jones

• Attends North Shore High School
• Participates in motocross competitions
• Member of the chess club
• Part time job at Cubbys Restaurant Grill

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SnapshotTaylors Income and Expenses
SnapshotTaylors Income and Expenses

• Taylors Expenses
• Transportation
• Fuel
• Other Items

• Taylors Income
• Cubbys Restaurant Grill
• 5.25/hour
• 10 hours a week
• 75.00/ month for tips
• Allowance
• 20.00/month
• Gifts
• 50.00 birthday gift

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Jones Major Family Expenditures Summary

• Browse through page 5-7
• House
• Family Size
• Hobbies
• Lifestyle
• Other Family Dynamics
• Transportation
• Taylor
• Get to and from work
• Taylor must pay for his own fuel expenses
• Jones Family
• Family Size
• Neighborhood Car pool

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SnapshotJones Family Expenses
Facilitation Acquiring

• Educator facilitated in 3-4 45 minute class
  periods
• Life of Monica Erickson, Life of Ben West, Life
  of Mandy Gonzales, and Life of Carlos Chavez are
  also available
• Others will be coming soon!

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Financial Statistics Puzzle 5.0.18

• Prepare puzzle pieces
• Type financial statistics using a large font and
  landscape layout, type one statistic per page
• Print each statistic on different colored paper
• Cut each page into 4-7 pieces, creating a
  separate puzzle for each piece of paper
• Play activity
• Give each participant a piece of a puzzle
• Direct participants to find others that have the
  same color paper
• Once they find everyone with the same colored
  paper, the group must put their puzzle together
  to reveal the financial statistic

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Facilitation Tips

• Once the statistics have been formed they can be
  posted on butcher paper. Give participants the
  opportunity to walk around and give initial
  feedback on the statistics
• Have participants display their statistics in
  different areas of the school or community
• Do fact or fiction statistics instead of all fact
  encouraging discussion among participants

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FEFE Web site
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Where to login/Create an account
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Personal Profile
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Curriculum Main Page
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Career Table of Contents
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Career Research 1.1.2
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File Download
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Educational Support
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Contact Us
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Contact Information

• Address
• Family Economics and Financial Education
• The University of Arizona
• 650 N. Park Ave Room 427
• Tucson, AZ 85721
• E-Mail fefe_at_cals.arizona.edu
• Web site www.fefe.arizona.edu

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Any Questions?