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This update contains the latest announcements and current news impacting K-12 Social Studies in North Carolina public schools. As always, we encourage those of you who receive the updates to please share this issue with others who are not currently subscribed to our listserv. To receive Social Studies Updates please sign up using the following link: Social Studies Listerv Update and Remind or follow us on Facebook and Twitter .
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Update includes:
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Financial Literacy Month Webinar with NCDPI and the Federal Reserve
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Important Update: K-12 Social Studies Google Sites
- CFNC Program: Financial Basics for High School and Beyond
- #MySavingsStory Campaign to Celebrate Financial Literacy Month
- Financial Literacy Resources from Free Spirit Publishing
- Great Read Aloud Books for Financial Literacy Month
- NCCEE Resources
- Instructional Resources from The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
- Additional Resources and Opportunities
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Financial Literacy Month: Webinar with the Federal Reserve
April is Financial Literacy Month! We are pleased to announce that NCDPI K-12 Social Studies Team will be partnering with The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to conduct a Financial Literacy webinar on Wednesday, April 3rd at 4:30 p.m. The webinar seeks to provide support to educators regarding the North Carolina State Board of Education policy, which requires the inclusion of financial literacy in social studies.
The webinar will give a brief overview of our work in this area and will be followed by our guest presenter, the Federal Reserve, who will share their free online course, Invest In What’s Next and tools they have created for successful usage in the classroom. In addition, you will hear about other Federal Reserve System resources for your classroom. Their Economic Education staff will be connected to present and answer any questions you may have. You will receive a wealth of financial literacy knowledge and resources at no cost to you.
To join us, please go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6798039999351427586 to register for this webinar.
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INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
K-12 Social Studies Google Sites
IMPORTANT UPDATE: On January 31st, Wikispaces, the company that hosts all of the DPI wikis, went out of business.
Google Sites serves as a central hub for Social Studies educators, administrators, institutions of higher education, and other interested parties. This hub houses the repositories, communications, and recommended resources (e.g. financial literacy resources) related to the implementation of the North Carolina Social Studies Standard Course of Study (SCoS). Social Studies educators are encouraged to browse, reference, download, share, discuss, and adapt resources. Use the navigation menu to access information and resources.
REMEMBER, K-12 Social Studies resources and information can always be found on the shelves of our current LiveBinders. Click this K-12 SS LiveBinders hyperlink to access all social studies materials!
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CFNC Program: Financial Basics for High School and Beyond
Financial Basics for High School and Beyond, is provided through the collaborative effort of College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) and Decision Partners LLC, and is a FREE financial education program available online at CFNC.org. Designed to complement North Carolina curriculum standards for Personal Finance and Social Studies courses, this new program will engage students in a blended learning experience.
Highlights of the Financial Basics program include:
- There are fifteen (15) graded mini-courses that can be assigned in any order. Ideal for use in the classroom, as homework, or as extra credit assignments. (These mini-courses have been cross walked to NC curriculum standards for easy reference.)
- A complete financial aid video library clarifies the college financial aid process.
- Curriculum maps offer ideas for using the program in your classroom, particularly for Social Studies and CTE courses. For tips, visit https://basics.financialliteracy101.org/curricula.cfm
- Classroom-based student and assignment tracking, including exportable Excel reports
- Setting up a virtual classroom is simple. To get started, visit https://basics.financialliteracy101.org. If you need help, we’re just a click away because a great teacher experience is our top priority! (Guide is attached)
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#MySavingsStory Campaign to Celebrate Financial Literacy Month
The Council of Economic Education is thrilled to announce the launch of the #MySavingsStory Video Campaign to inform and inspire kids to understand and take control of their financial lives. We’ve enlisted fashion designer Elie Tahari, best-selling author of Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney, entrepreneur Rosie Pope, and others to share, via videos, what they’ve learned about the importance of financial literacy and saving. Visit our blog to find the names of those involved and dates when their videos will be released throughout Financial Literacy Month. And, make sure to check our Facebook page to watch their #MySavingsStory videos and hear their personal finance stories and savings advice firsthand.
Students Explain the Importance of Financial Literacy
CEE asked elementary, middle, and high school students to explain the difference that understanding economics and personal finance can make in their lives. Here’s what they had to say!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CaEPKyNg71k?autoplay=1
Check your own economic literacy
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Financial Literacy Resources from Free Spirit Publishing
The Survival Guide for Money Smarts Earn, Save, Spend, Give
This lively survival guide introduces the basics of financial literacy and money management to kids. Readers will find humorous illustrations and engaging examples that bring to life ideas for setting money goals, delaying gratification, being thrifty, giving to charity, and making socially responsible spending and donating decisions. The authors also offer friendly insight into how choices about money and finances connect to character development and social-emotional well-being.
Learn more and download a free leader's guide.
Fun with Finance: Classroom Activities for Financial Literacy Month
Help students establish a foundation of money smarts that will help them now and in the future.
Read the full article. >
Helping Students Set SMART Goals for Financial Literacy
Setting financial goals can be a fun and inspiring activity for students of any age. And when you keep the focus on the end goal of using money to achieve the lifestyle students want, it can be easier to engage them.
Read the full article. >
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Great Read Aloud Books for Financial Literacy Month
Berenstain Bears: Trouble With Money
F&P Level L
First Grade thru Third Grade students hear a story about two little bears whose parents use several figures of speech relating to money. Students draw a picture of a bank and write a caption explaining their illustration. Students follow along with the story by listening for additional figures of speech and how they relate to the concepts of banks and interest. The students also construct a story map of an event in the story relating to why people choose to keep their money in banks.
There is even a lesson plan ready to go from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis!
https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/the-berenstain-bears-trouble-with-money
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
F&P Level S
Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed was the only black barber in the county. He had a kind heart and a warm smile. And he had a dream. Living in the segregated South of the 1920's, where most people were sharecroppers. Uncle Jed had to travel all over the county to cut his customers' hair. He lived for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But it was a long time, and many setbacks, from five-year-old Sarah Jean's emergency operation to the bank failures of the Great Depression, before the joyful day when Uncle Jed opened his shiny new shop — and twirled a now grown-up Sarah Jean around in the barber chair. With James Ransome's richly colored paintings brimming with life, this is a stirring story of dreams long deferred and finally realized.
Here is a great lesson plan to support the book too!
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/education/teachers/lesson-plans/UncleJedsBarbershop.pdf
A Chair for My Mother
Students read A Chair for My Mother, about a little girl and her family who save money to buy a chair after their furniture is destroyed in a fire. Students learn that characters in the book are human resources who save part of the income they earn. Students identify other human resources, discuss how their work allows them to earn income and name strategies that will help them reach a savings goal.
There is a lesson plan that support this book, too!
https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/the-berenstain-bears-trouble-with-money
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NCCEE Resources
Request Guest Speaker
NCCEE is partnering with financial institutions to bring guest speakers directly to classrooms throughout North Carolina during the Teach Kids to Save campaign from April 1-30. Volunteers from State Farm and Wells Fargo, along with other institutions, will provide presentations for students focusing on saving. Please note that we will make every effort to accommodate your requested date/time. However, we are working with volunteers whose schedules might require a slight shift in dates/times. We will be sure to confirm each visit with you.
Request a Guest Speaker Today!!
Professional Development Workshops
If you are interested in attending economic and financial literacy workshops and courses or are interested in bringing competitions and more to your students, NCCEE offers resources. Explore our curriculum offerings, workshops and academic competitions to get started.
Additional Resources
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Instructional Resources from The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Middle and High
Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School: Help your students navigate their first major financial decision – what path to pursue after high school. Through online, self-directed lessons, students build personal finance knowledge and skills to help implement a plan that’s right for them.
Photo Essay of MaggieL. Walker: illustrates the life of a visionary leader in the African-American community
Dollars and Sense: Dollars and Sense is a budgeting game for middle and high school students. Students select a lifestyle and budget for expenses and unexpected events.
PSAs in the Classroom: Engage your students with short PSA videos, paired with easy-to-implement classroom activities, to demonstrate economic and personal finance concepts.
Deficit and Debt Direction Connection : Predict the effect of changes in the economy and other events on tax revenue, government spending, the federal budget and the national debt to determine the connection between deficit and debt.
Fed Centennial Lessons Combined: Conduct a readers' theater, interactive card sort, human timeline activity, and more to learn about the Fed’s history and functions, and how its role has evolved over the last 100 years.
Region Focus: Check out selected issues and articles from Region Focus, now titled Econ Focus, and links to related lessons, resources and activities.
The Monetary and Fiscal Policy Two Step: Examine quotes from news sources to distinguish the differences between monetary and fiscal policy.
Elementary
Economic Concepts Posters: Find hands-on ideas for teaching economic concepts by using these award-winning, student created illustrations.
Photo Essay of MaggieL. Walker: illustrates the life of a visionary leader in the African-American community
My Money: Explore lessons such as What Is Money?, Money Equivalents, and Jobs, Money, Goods and Services in this educational package for elementary school students.
Lemonade for Sale: Use the book Lemonade for Sale to discuss and classify productive resources. Hands on activities are a key part of this lesson and extension activities integrate mathematics and language arts into the exercise.
Historical Figure Bookmarks: Discover fun facts, activities and brief biographies that highlight historical figures on coins, and the history of economics, banking and the Federal Reserve System.
To access more resources and information, please visit: https://www.richmondfed.org/education
For information on presentations, tours, and TCC in Charlotte:
Yolanda Ferguson
Yolanda.Ferguson@rich.frb.org
For information on resources shared:
Kevin Woodcox
Kevin.Woodcox@rich.frb.org
Sarah Gunn
Sarah.Gunn@rich.frb.org
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