Money Matters
Title: CanLearn Financial Planner Canadian Site
Level: C&U
Comment: This interactive resource lets you test drive your budget for the school year in order to make sure that you won’t be broke by mid semester. The tools do all the arithmetic. Keep playing until you achieve a balanced budget.
Title: Budget For Success Canadian Site
Level: C&U
Comment: This site teaches students how to budget successfully. Have some fun and play the interactive Budget Bonanza adventure game, the best interactive outlining the boring task of saving plus the excitement of spending!
Title: Project Money
Level: ABE
Comment: This site is straightforward and easy to understand. Videos, workbooks, tips, and stories make the goals of the site relevant to the student.
Title: Practical Money Skills For Life
Level: C&U
Comment: The content of this site includes everything from budgeting for a new baby to saving your first million. Games & banking tutor as well. A wide scope of activities and interactive tools are available here.
Title: Credit Counselling Society *Canadian Site*
Level: All levels
Comment: Visit this website to get information about managing debt. If you are having difficulty managing debt, you can get free advice from the Society’s counsellors. This non-profit society serves all of Western Canada through the telephone but has offices in B.C. and in Winnipeg.
Title: Money Mentors Canadian Site
Level: All levels
Comment: This site has some very useful tools for managing debt in its “Learning Centre” section, especially the downloadable book-“Budgeting Basics”. The online tutorials are also very good. Credit counselling services at this organization are not free.