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I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
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'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
August 13, 2025 - Having just read a story on the CBC News site titled Adulting 101, in which Gen Z members decry not having learned how to change a tire, sew or learn about a slew of financial matters before leaving the nest, I've decided to combine my 9 resources for teachers of Canadian high school math into this one-stop, hopefully useful bundle. NOTE: Manitoba teachers, I'm sorry, you'll have to buy your own copy of how to insure and maintain a vehicle in your province, as TPT won't let me
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Insuring and Maintaining a Canadian Vehicle Outside BC and Manitoba (CANADA)
As with my products for BC and Manitoba students (where insurance is wholly handled by Crown corporations), this one tackles the subject of the costs of insurance and upkeep of a vehicle everywhere else in Canada. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; and 2 slides discuss insurance programs for most provinces. But the main part of this presentation looks at the vario
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Insuring and Maintaining a Vehicle in Manitoba (CANADA)
As with my product for BC students, this one tackles the subject of the costs of insurance and upkeep of a vehicle in the province of Manitoba. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; and 2 slides discuss MPI's insurance program. But the main part of this presentation looks at the various costs involved in maintaining one’s vehicle. In the ambitious, but practical, ass
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Superheroes Saving the Day and Saving Money!
In 2016 VISA and Marvel Comics teamed up to produce three entertaining and informative comic books related to wise financial practices. In 'Avengers Save the Day', Nova gets some tips on financial literacy in general and saving up for his sister's birthday present in particular from some of his 'colleagues' while they're thwarting an attempted bank robbery. This FREE product contains a Powerpoint slide set and a worksheet to help your students evaluate and rank 4 of the main characters' financia
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: How to Avoid Going Into Debt
Provinces and territories across Canada include, to one degree or another, financial literacy in their curricula; the topic of this product should be a basic 'tool' in all Canadian math teachers' toolkits. After listing some rather startling statistics on the current state of collective Canadian debt, and pointing students towards the basics of making a financial plan, students are offered 2 assignment options to learn about how to avoid going into debt in the first place: (1) watching an epis
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Managing Your Chequing Account
Managing a chequing account is an important step in a young person's financial life. This product covers the basics of writing a cheque; what to do and what NOT to do in order to avoid 'bouncing' a cheque; ways to protect one's account. The tasks are the very definition of 'hands-on training': your students will practice keeping a cheque register by listing a series of fictional payments by cheque and gain practice in writing cheques. Worksheets and answer keys are provided. Although this produc
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Identity Theft and Phishing Scams
Statistics worldwide demonstrate that the incidence of identity theft and identity fraud soared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). This is a 'math' topic (more specifically, financial literacy) because, once a hacker has access to your personal information, it's an easy path to opening false bank accounts and credit cards, and even emptying your actual bank accounts and using your actual credit cards. With so many people, including teens, conducting a significant portion of the
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
How Does Inflation Affect My Life?
'Inflation' is very much a word and topic that students are likely hearing about in the media (and possibly in their own homes) these days. This product (though ungraded, I would likely not use it below middle school, but you know your own students best) is meant to be an introduction to the topic, covering terms like Consumer Price Index, 'the law of supply and demand' and 'shrinkflation'. With videos and links to Canadian government sources of information, you'll lead your students into a brai
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Investments
This product starts off with a humourous nod to David Chilton, the author of The Wealthy Barber, before going on to look at a summary of his book’s three main points in a Youtube video. The term ‘risk tolerance’ is discussed in some detail before you have the opportunity to take your students through (or offer them, as groups) a choice of three stock market simulation games. There’s no written assignment, unless you want to add or use the old-school alternative of having them choose some Canadi
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: RRSPs and TFSAs
This product introduces your students to the basics of RRSPs and TFSAs. Most, if not all, are likely unaware that they are eligible to start an RRSP at any age, and a TFSA when they turn 18. The benefits of starting their savings accounts early (and compound interest, which Einstein described as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’) are stressed. The two assignments require your students to think critically about both investment accounts by comparing and contrasting them, and to consider which one t
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Student Loans
In Canada, the student loan process is handled by individual provinces and territories; this product is, nevertheless, a relevant topic to many secondary students. Yours will see a series of slides, outlining the process of applying, before using the provided worksheet to list the information required in order to complete a financial aid application. While it’s not ‘math’ per se, it IS a real-life exercise designed to acquaint your students with the first step in their post-secondary educations.
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Mortgages
When you were going through the process of getting your first mortgage, don’t you wish someone had walked you through the basics sometime beforehand? This product starts with 8 questions that prospective home buyers should be considering as they plan for their purchase. Three worksheets help your students summarize, synthesize and apply what they’ve learned from the presentation (answer keys are provided). NOTE: Although this product is specifically created for the BC Workplace Math 11 course, i
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Vehicles (BC only)
This product, part of my ‘The Big Stuff’ series on 9 aspects of financial literacy, tackles the subject of the costs of maintenance and upkeep of a vehicle. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; 2 slides discuss ICBC’s insurance program. But the main part of this presentation looks at the various costs involved in maintaining one’s vehicle. In the ambitious, but prac
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Loans
This product covers the topic of loans: types, such as secured, co-signer, payday and installment loans and their relative merits and deficiencies; quite a bit of focus on credit scores and credit ratings, and how they impact one’s ability to get a loan; and leasing, as an alternative to taking out a loan to buy a car. Two practical assignments ask your students to investigate the terms of a personal loan from 3 lending institutions, and creating a comparison infographic on the pro’s and con’s o
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Credit Cards
This product goes through the basics of credit cards – how they work, types of cards, interest rates and charges – as well as the perils of getting in over one’s head with credit card debt. The assignment is to choose 4 credit cards, create a list of criteria to use in order to evaluate them and explain their choice of one of them (much as we’d do in real life). Your students are also asked to create a list of four rules they’d make for themselves that they’d always follow when they finally get
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Banking Services
This product does a ‘deep dive’ into the products and services commonly found in Canadian banks and most credit unions. Students will learn about 7 basic features, including types of accounts they can open; writing cheques; online banking; and loans and interest rates. The assignment is to evaluate a bank, using the 7 features as their criteria (a PDF of ‘The Big Five’ with live links is provided), and grade it, providing written comments to explain their rankings. A second assignment asks stude
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
10 Tips on Smart Spending
Financial literacy in the current BC math curriculum guide begins in kindergarten with the identification of Canadian coins and progresses from there (note: grade 4 students are once again learning how to count back change, hallelujah!). This FREE poster (suitable for grade levels from 5 and up in all provinces/territories, as well as our neighbours to the south) lists 10 common sense guidelines, courtesy of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, which is TD Bank, N.A. in the US. A good discussion starter
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Ways to Pay
This product, suitable for ALL Canadian students in middle school and higher, describes 8 of the most common ways to pay for goods and services. Some of the information is just that - a neutral statement of facts; other information can be described as recommending for or against the payment method. Your students will dig a bit deeper into researching each of the 8 ways and use that info to create a comparison infographic. The start of some interesting conversations awaits! While I've listed this
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian High Schoolers: You're Working Part-Time
This product focuses on the topics of gross and net pay; the TD1 tax form required by employers for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA); and the bigger topic of filing a tax return, which all part-time workers, including students, should do (the advantages of doing so are outlined in one slide). As such, this product is relevant to ALL Canadian students, no matter at what grade level these topics are addressed. (For non-BC teachers there's an alternative title slide). Two worksheets are included; on
9th - 11th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian High Schoolers: Plan a First Peoples Celebration
The BC Math 9 curriculum guide lists 'create a budget/plan to host a First Peoples event' as an elaboration on its financial literacy requirement; I've taken that suggestion and run with it, creating a 'scenario' project in which students participate in making an application to the Canadian government for funds to facilitate a cultural event at their school to recognize September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. That said, this is more a 'blueprint' than an extended lesson plan
9th - 11th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
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About the store
Experience
I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
Teaching style
Enthusiastic! I was terribly shy as a child, died a thousand deaths when I had to get up for an oral presentation in front of my classmates. But as a teacher, I could get up and talk all the live long day, without notes, because teaching was (and still is) my passion, and kids are amazingly accepting, forgiving and encouraging - I drew energy from them! My curricular interests are inquiry, cross-curricular, project-based learning (PBL) and although I never taught STEM, I think it's an awesome vehicle for learning. You'll see that A LOT of my projects list 'critical thinking' as a keyword; that's because I believe that in these days in which we are living it IS critical for kids to develop this particular thinking skill.
Awards & shining teacher moments
nominated as Teacher of the Year (2012)
My own education history
I earned my B.Ed.,with an emphasis on social studies and language arts, from the University of Victoria (1978); subject courses for teacher-librarianship (1982, UVic) and earned my M.Ed. in teacher-librarianship from the University of British Columbia (1996).
Additional biographical information
My store's name comes from a nickname one of my fave gr. 10 students gave me, the one-and-only year I taught in a junior high school. I'm a third-generation Canadian on my dad's side, fourth-generation on my mum's; an avid and wide reader; a diehard cross-stitcher; and a lifelong learner. Visit my Pinterest page @ https://www.pinterest.ca/ConantheLibrarian/
If you need to contact me, please do so at lmlconsu@telus.net.
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