Financial websites

Spendwell, 2006, Office of Consumer and Business Affairs, SA - This web-based highly animated program targets Years 6-9 students with an innovative approach to problem-solving activities suitable for co-operative, group work and self regulated learning. Its flexible learning style caters for educational officers working in/with Aboriginal education; Financial Counsellors; students leaving school and those involved in mandatory detention centres.

Quicken: Personal Plus Education Edition, 2003, Quicken Australia - A computer based personal finance package introduces Y7-10 students to learn about personal finance and management. The hands-on approach enables students to work through set exercises independently or in groups to solve problems and explore a range of financial concepts and mechanisms to record household transactions.

The Real Game, 2006, The Real Game Inc - A five unit paper based career development program that integrates financial literacy concepts across key learning areas. This comprehensive interactive learning kit offers a stimulating theme-based approach to life-like experiences as students explore the concepts and strategies that will enable them to make better informed decisions on education, income and job satisfaction, and gain a realistic understanding of adult life, work and society.

Money Stuff, 2005, NSW Office of Fair Trading, Department of Commerce - Personal budgets, savings plans, consumer rights and responsibilities, choice, personal financial records, consumer and financial advice, financial scams, debt, consumer credit, customers to budget and manage own finances, promote basic financial literacy skills

Commonwealth Bank Foundation Financial Literacy Curriculum Resource, 2006 - An online package particularly targeting years 7 to 10. It includes lesson plans, units of work, assessment tools, advice to teachers, and web based materials. It includes 12 modules that have been mapped against each state and territory curriculum. The modules cover: earning an income, spending and saving, consumer decisions, consumer protection, buying a car, financial services and systems, managing finances, consumer awareness and protection, personal investment, planning and running a business, impact of technology, and economics of everyday finance.

Why risk it?, 2006 ANZIIF, - A free financial literacy resource for all secondary schools. It contains 10 sections providing an overview of insurance, risk management and insurance careers, primarily targeting years 9 to 10. The materials include a DVD and a folder of resources incorporating teaching activities such as case studies and practical examples.

Consumer Stuff!, 2005, Consumer Affairs Victoria - A set of resource books (Maths, Commerce, English, Health and Wellbeing, and Consuming Planet Earth) for secondary school teachers, consisting of worksheets, background notes, extension tasks, revision activities (including quizzes and puzzles), and additional website support material. The Maths and Commerce resources are particularly relevant. The Consumer Stuff! Challenge competition gets secondary school students to investigate a consumer issue and then create a Consumer Information Product which addresses the issue.

Operation Financial Literacy, 2005, Financial Basics Foundation - Operation Financial Literacy is a 10 module teaching resource aimed at students in Years 9-10 and is supported by detailed teacher notes and student worksheets. The kit contains numerous classroom, internet and research activities, including community surveys. The program can also be accessed on-line.

ASIC/FIDO Website Links for the NSW Commerce Syllabus Years 7 to 10, 2006 - Web-based resource for teachers with links to relevant information pages on the ASIC's FIDO website. The material supports the NSW Commerce syllabus for Years 7-10. The content is topical with real-life examples about financial matters and up-to-date information on financial products and services, and consumer rights and responsibilities.

Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Game, 1997 - Free online game involving investment of a notional $50,000 primarily targeting students in years 9 and 10. Students research stocks and market sectors and reallocate funds over a 10 week period. Lesson plans and supporting educational materials supplied. There is student access, and teacher access, allowing the teacher to guide student experience.

For vocational and technical education sector, and adult and community education

Money Manual; Grow Personally, Grow Profitably; and Financial Footsteps to the Future, 2006, IBSA -A three part comprehensive resource containing practical and proactive activities that can be worked through in workbooks or on the computer. Money Manual has been developed primarily for Registered Training Organisations as an aide in the delivery of the financial competency standards as part of a vocational qualification; whilst the Financial Footsteps to the Future, and the Growing Personally, Growing Profitable programs support the FNS10104 Certificate I standard, targeting the adult and community education sectors and small businesses. The progressive but flexible format of the manuals allow for individual learning or teacher delivery to groups of participants; and use a variety of learning styles such as video/visual presentations, role play and group brainstorming.

MoneyMinded, 2006, ANZ - A hard copy package designed for use by financial counsellors and community educators to support delivery to their clients. It includes 16 workshops that cover: planning, saving, budgeting, financial paperwork, everyday banking, credit, debt, consumer rights and responsibilities. The package includes speaking notes for facilitators, lesson plans, case studies and activity sheets for participants. Calculators and satchels are also available upon request for participants.

Money101, Money for life, 2006, Money101, Money for Life - An interactive online training program designed for flexible delivery through the workplace. It is a web based eLearning resources that is accessed via a learning management system. The training is supplemented by face to face workshops and downloadable workbooks and learning materials. Covers: budgeting as a financial tool, developing and implementing a personal budget, saving and investing, risk, and superannuation.

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