Guidance & Career Education

Resources for the Financial Literacy Graduation Requirement

Teacher Toolkits

These toolkits empower teachers to guide students through budgeting, interest, savings, investments, and foreign currency, equipping them to make informed financial decisions.

Modules include:

  • What do we need to know about payment methods?

  • What steps can I take to create a simple budget?

  • How exactly do taxes matter?

  • What's the difference between saving and investing?

  • Credit…what’s it all about?

Modules include:

  • A guide to foreign currency

  • Balancing your budget — tips and tricks that you shouldn't miss

  • Is it free, or is there a fee?

  • Is the value increasing or decreasing?

  • Simple vs. compound interest

Practice Assessments

These practice assessments help students master key financial literacy concepts and prepare for their graduation requirement using questions similar in style to those on the test.

Topics include:

  • earning

  • spending

  • methods of payment

  • credit

  • debt

  • interest and interest rates

Topics include:

  • financial goals

  • saving

  • spending

  • savings accounts

  • types of investments

  • investment risk and timelines

Topics include:

  • loyalty programs

  • incentives

  • advertisements

  • credit card rewards

  • fees

In this classroom resource, students apply financial literacy skills to a realistic postsecondary scenario by choosing a pathway, researching expected costs, estimating potential income, and building a first-year budget in myBlueprint. They also set a financial goal and reflect on their plan, helping them connect classroom learning to their Individual Pathways Plan and future decision-making. These activities directly address Strand C of the GLC2O curriculum.

It features two classroom-ready lesson slide decks.

  • Post-Secondary Exploration — Individual Pathway Planning Activity

  • Budgeting — Individual Pathway Planning Activity