Using Financial Football - Module 4: The Game Plan – The Art of Budgeting
Learning Goals/Objectives:
• Assist in identifying and prioritizing personal and financial goals, create a plan to achieve those goals, and provide practice setting up and maintaining a personal budget.
• Learn how to gather the information needed to build a budget
• Develop a budget
• Learn how to work with a budget to accomplish goals
Overview:
Visa and the National Football League have teamed up to help teach financial concepts with Financial Football, a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students while teaching them money management skills. Teams compete by answering financial questions to earn yardage and score touchdowns.
Access the Financial Football Training Camp game online at: http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/trainingcamp/ff/
Lessons:
The Financial Football Training Camp is a lesson plan that will help you teach important financial literacy skills to your students. The four modules, each designed to teach in a 45 minute class, cover skills and information that will be vital to students' futures.
Activities:
Module 4: The Game Plan – The Art of Budgeting
A football game plan brings together all the skills on a team in order to win the game. A budget does the same for your finances. It brings together all your financial skills to create a plan for financial success.
You have to track your expenses and know your assets and liabilities. You’ve got to plan to save to let interest work for you. And you have to know how to use credit and debit cards wisely.
But that’s just the start. After creating a budget, you should not only know your current financial position, you should also know how you’re going to achieve your desired financial future.
Assessment:
Financial Football is a competitive game where you can keep score and choose winners. Extra credit points could be offered; but it is primarily a product to get students engaged and having fun.
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