FEFE Curriculum Types

The FEFE curriculum has several types of lesson plans designed to fulfill the diverse needs of different educational environments. The numbers align with the curriculum coding system where the first number of the code indicates the curriculum type.
 

Compare and contrast the different features of each curriculum type with the Curriculum Types Comparison document.

Lesson plan types of daily instruction:

1. Advanced Lessons (Take Charge of Your Finances) Is an interactive and comprehensive curriculum designed for students in grades 10–12 or individuals who are preparing to manage their personal and family finances.

2. Introductory Lessons (Get Ready to Take Charge of Your Finances) Consists of a fast paced facilitation with scenario based learning intended for students in grades 7–9 or individuals with limited family finance knowledge.

7. Sixty Minute Lessons (The Essentials to Take Charge of Your Finances) Provide interactive step-by-step facilitation of essential concepts condensed to sixty minutes and are perfect for one day classroom lessons or workshops.

Assessment tools:

3. Finance Simulations

• “Life in…” Is a family spending plan simulation emulating the constraints typical American households encounter when managing their finances. Each participant is assigned a profile based upon nationality, gender, age, ethnicity, marital status, education, and wage data, which participants use when applying course information to real-life situations.

• “Life of…” Are individual spending plan simulations completed by analyzing the life of a teenager. Each simulation showcases a family who is working with their teenage child to create a spending plan. Participants identify the family’s values, needs and wants to make major expenditure decisions and create a spending plan.

Supplemental resources:

4. Bulletin Boards Have been developed to supplement various units and lesson plans. Individual pieces for assembly are available along with pictures of completed bulletin boards.

5. Active Learning Tools Motivate students to fully engage in concepts and maximize knowledge retention with an activity based approach for a wide variety of units and lesson plans.

6. Project Based Learning (Enhancement Tools) Are designed to enhance  current curriculum in a project based approach. They reinforce numerous financial education topics and provide opportunities for outreach projects to peers, family members, and communities.