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• March 28, 2025

  Budgets: Math for life

  

  Students will use math skills to create a budget for a class event or activity.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Financial literacy, Math Grade level(s): Grade 04, Grade 05, Grade 06
• March 17, 2025

  Global Money Week

  

  Check out our elementary and secondary resources.
• March 3, 2025

  March Break at the Museum

  

  Share part of your March Break with us at the Museum. Drop in for free family activities about counterfeiting and how our bank notes are designed to prevent it or check out our online activities.
• February 26, 2025

  New acquisitions—2024 edition

  By: David Bergeron, Krista Broeckx

  
  

  

  Bank of Canada Museum’s acquisitions in 2024 highlight the relationships that shape the National Currency Collection.

  Content type(s): Blog posts
• February 11, 2025

  Money’s metaphors

  By: Phillipe Audet-Cayer, Graham Iddon, Patricia Marando

  
  

  

  Buck, broke, greenback, loonie, toonie, dough, flush, gravy train, born with a silver spoon in your mouth… No matter how common the expression for money, many of us haven’t the faintest idea where these terms come from.

  Content type(s): Blog posts
• January 22, 2025

  Value for money: Determining unit price

  

  Grade 4 students will learn how to calculate a product’s unit price and total cost and determine if something is a real deal.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Financial literacy, Math Grade level(s): Grade 04
• November 7, 2024

  Family Fun Weekends

  

  Pop into the Museum for Family Fun Weekends on December 7 and 8 and December 14 and 15 for activities offering both financial know how and fun.
• October 11, 2024

  Exploring payment methods

  

  Grade 4 students will learn about different payment methods and how to decide which to use.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Financial literacy, Math Grade level(s): Grade 04
• September 13, 2024

  Five bucks: the economics of Treaty relationships

  

  Explore treaties using art, artifacts and historical thinking.

  Content type(s): Lesson plans Subject(s): Arts, History, Social studies Grade level(s): Grade 07 / Secondary 1, Grade 08 / Secondary 2, Grade 09 / Secondary 3, Grade 10 / Secondary 4, Grades 11 and 12 / Secondary 5 and CEGEP
• September 12, 2024

  You are the economy

  

  A set of six lessons to explore economics with your students.

  Content type(s): Educational toolkits Subject(s): Business and careers, Economy, Financial literacy, Geography, History, Math, Social studies Grade level(s): Grade 07 / Secondary 1, Grade 08 / Secondary 2, Grade 09 / Secondary 3, Grade 10 / Secondary 4, Grades 11 and 12 / Secondary 5 and CEGEP