Financial Basics Foundation (FBF) is an independent charity that provides free of charge to all Australian educators extensive resources and services designed to support students in developing financial life skills. FBF’s new website features financial literacy teaching and learning resources, videos, activities and games In addition, we have also launched the Financial Basics Classroom Academy, an e-learning portal featuring engaging online short courses with financial literacy micro-credentials led by the classroom teacher. As with all FBF resources, The Financial Basics Classroom Academy is integrated into our website and free to all Australian educators. This session will focus on free tools for student engagement with and understanding of mathematics in the ‘real-life’ context of personal finance. It will showcase the freshly launched Financial Basics Classroom Academy short courses, the brand new animated MoneyIQ YouTube financial education video series and the updated ESSI Money Game.

Key takeaways:
1. Free financial literacy education resources that you can use in your next lesson.
2. Free financial literacy training courses for your students, featuring micro-credentials.
3. Free Australian-context, animated, financial literacy education videos.

Remember: An internet enabled device will let you get hands on with the free digital resources during the session.