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ABOUT THE CITY
The City is a learning program developed by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) with the goal of teaching young people financial skills that they can carry with them throughout their lives. The materials consist of a comprehensive 325 page teacher resource manual customized for each province containing handouts, overheads, sample documents and quizzes. This resource can be purchased for $50.00 or downloaded for use in a classroom or used as an online, self-directed version that can be completed virtually anywhere. To purchase the complete City teacher resource binder click on the convenient order form at the top of this page and fax it to (416)332-6204 or to download free, visit The City at www.themoneybelt.ca and follow the links to register.
Click here to learn more about The City.
Why should you use The City to teach financial life skills?
You'll Benefit
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The City is based on an award-winning teaching resource.
- Currently endorsed by the Ministry of Education in British Columbia (BC) and used by teachers in BC.
- It uses an interactive, hands-on, engaging format to teach financial life skills in schools or in community settings.
- You can choose between in-class modules to achieve learning outcomes prescribed by your province/territory or online modules that students can do independently to achieve many of the same outcomes.
- The in-class resource contains everything you need to teach financial life skills, including lesson plans, overheads, student handouts and financial documents.
- You can set up classes electronically so your students can email you their completed online work.
- The City is unbiased with no strings attached. There's no agenda other than promoting financial life skills. You can feel confident your students are getting sound, reliable information.
Your Students Will Benefit
- They'll use an engaging series of activities to learn basic financial life skills in a way that is relevant to their own lives.
- Using realistic characters, they can learn about personal finances in a fun, interactive and non-threatening way.
- They can do activities in an online format that they enjoy
- They can download, save and update key worksheets.
- They'll become familiar with materials and skills that are common to most types of financial software.
- They can have fun while learning financial life skills!
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