Student group: 7-12
Description: This web-based highly animated program targets Years 6-9 students with an innovative approach to problem-solving activities suitable for co-operative, group work and self regulated learning. Its flexible learning style caters for educational officers working in/with Aboriginal education; Financial Counsellors; students leaving school and those involved in mandatory detention centres.
The 4-unit program integrates financial literacy concepts across key learning areas. Students explore through real life scenarios, the obligations, implications and consequences of making financial choices in the realms of buying, living away, mobile phone usage and online shopping.
Publisher: Office of Consumer and Business Affairs, SA.
Developed by: The Office of Consumer and Business Affairs (OCBA) contracted Access Media (service within the Department of Education and Children's Services, SA) to develop the website. Content has been written by OCBA.
Copyright owned by:Office of Consumer and Business Affairs, SA.
Last updated: 2006
Published: 2002
CFL Framework:
- Knowledge and Understanding: rights and responsibilities; risk factors; making choices; budgeting; and debt management; local government information agencies.
- Competence: analysis; decision making; oral & written communication; creative and critical thinking, interpretation and problem solving.
- Enterprise: management of self as individuals and in relation to others; manage the world in which we live in; act effectively in that world.
- Responsibility: financial management, responsible choices; personal learning; responsibility to self, community and the world we live in.
Curriculum area: This resource is integrated across key learning areas such as Maths, English, HSIE/SOSE.
Adult Education Standards: n/a
Licensing arrangements: n/a
Professional development: Free CD Rom for teachers on request.
Quality indicator: Meets the Financial Literacy Foundation's Essential Elements eligibility and assessment requirements. It was developed in line with the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability Framework, and endorsed as a key resource addressing one of the four pillars set down by the State Commissioners of Consumer Affairs (SCOCA) and the Consumer and Financial Literacy Working Party. The program has been widely used by upper primary/middle secondary schools in South Australia.
Material type: Online material.
Availability: Free access to the online program www.spendwell.com.au. A free CD Rom is also available for teachers on request.
Website: www.spendwell.com.au; For further details contact Ms Joanne Bell, Office of Consumer and Business Affairs; (08) 8204 9502; bell.joanne@agd.sa.gov.au