Financial Literacy Resources
Creative lessons and resources teaching financial literacy to youth K-12.
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Activity
At-a-Glance
Time:
One half-hour
Materials:
- Index cards or worksheet with introduction questions
Physical Setting:
Board meeting room with enough open space for members to mingle.
Purpose:
- To provide an opportunity for the youth and adult board members to get acquainted.
- To begin the team-building process among board members.
- To begin to demonstrate part of the process of “building community.”
Activity:
- Hand out index cards or worksheets on which the questions have been written and ask each member to find someone he or she does not know well or who is new to the board.
- Instruct each set of partners to shake hands, exchange names and begin to answer the questions on the cards:
What is your favorite food?
What is your favorite car?
What kind of music do you like best? Who is your favorite performer?
Where do you work? or Where do you go to school?
Where were you born?
Name a recent upcoming celebration in your life?
What is a secret wish of yours?
- After exchanging answers to those questions, each pair should find two others to meet. This time introduce one another to the new pair and tell the others one thing you learned about this person.
- Reconvene the group to the board table and begin the meeting.
Variations/Options:
- There are lots of questions that can be used. These are very successful sets:
- What is one thing lots of people know about you?
- What is one thing very few know about you?
- What is one thing nobody knows about you — but you?
- “Fibbers’ Club” Activity.
Ask each person to think of three things about themselves they would like to share, but one item should be completely false. As individuals exchange items, they have to figure out which are true and which are false.
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Have participants write their answers on a large sheet of paper and walk around the room looking for “matches” to the questions.
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Have the questions explore leadership/trusteeship qualities of the participants. These can be logged on newsprint by the facilitator and used throughout the training. Examples:
- What is one leadership quality you have demonstrated?
- What is another quality you would like to acquire?
- What is the Number One leadership or trusteeship quality you look for in an individual?