Taken directly from their website:
The Money Book for Teens is a series of 3 modules teaching teens the necessary financial skills to live and thrive in life. Using the Bible as its foundation, The Money Book for Teens is taught from the context of a language arts course.
Module 1 focuses on Biblical Stewardship principles while emphasizing things like budgeting, tracking spending, net worth, and understanding a balance sheet. Students will memorize foundational scriptures, learn financial vocabulary, practice critical thinking and logic skills, as well as reading comprehension. They will read the book The Richest Man in Babylon, a classic book by George Clason as part of their reading program.
Included: The Student edition (78 pages) & the Teacher edition (44 pages)
Needed: The Richest Man in Babylon
What we like about this:
The first module (Stewardship) is the only module we have used and we really like it because it has a very strong biblical foundation but also because it incorporated reading that “brought the point home” in a very easy-to-understand way. There are six lessons: What is Stewardship?, What am I a Steward Over?, Setting Up a Spending Plan, Tracking Spending, Balance Sheet and Net Worth – Why it’s Important.
Each lesson is about ten pages and consists of a little information presented by the authors followed by reading comprehension exercises (key terms, memory verse, concept problems), then reading from the book with “Connect to Literacy” questions. They close with reading scriptures and giving observations of those scriptures and how they relate to what is being studied.
They are asked to work on spending plans – showing them the connection between incoming and outgoing monies. {YAY!}
They also complete KWL charts:
If you are looking for an economics type study that is affordable with a biblical perspective…this study is for you!
Cost: $29.95 (e-book; both teacher and student editions)
As a side note: Originally we checked The Richest Man in Babylon out from our library but we needed it for too long so we went ahead and bought a used copy of our own.
Here’s praying you have fun learning!
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Dawn is a woman of God who is married to the love of her life. She works part-time, homeschools their two boys (since 2008) and loves animals. She enjoys learning what the Lord will provide for each day. You can find her over at Guiding Light Homeschool.
Thank you for the review. You did a terrific job in displaying pages that actually show what the curriculum looks like and will help to make a better purchasing choice. I am going to see if I can find this at the home school convention this weekend to recommend to home school parents.
Lisa, we will not be in Ohio at the CHEC conference there. We’re actually in Albuquerque’s CAPE-NM convention this weekend. If you have parents interested in this course that you talk with over the weekend, please ask them to contact me at [email protected] and mention this conversation. I will offer them the same convention special that I am offering here. It’s not available on the site.
Thanks Lisa! Have a great time at your convention.
Joshua