Topic: Financing
Format: PDF
Length: 21 p.
Total duration: approx. 4 hours
Number of lesson hours: 5 (1 LH = 45 minutes)

Description:

The Finanzfit-Workshop #2 on the topic of "Financing" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. The workshop is designed to be about 4 hours long and to be worked on in a group. Individual exercises or materials can and may of course be used independently of the rest of the workshop. In order to help structure the workshop or the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

In five teaching phases, basic knowledge about dealing with money is developed. The focus in this workshop is, of course, on Financing.

The five phases build on each other as follows:

1. First, learners approach the topic with their own knowledge and intuition.
2. In the next phase, basic financial skills are taught. To this end, the students learn important basic concepts of credit knowledge.
3. The acquired competencies are then consolidated, by the learners thinking about, for example, how the practical taking out of a loan works. Examples are used to teach more complex topics such as the differences between various types of credit.
4. In order to test the progress made, the learners can play mini-games on the web-app.
5. Finally, media content is available on the web-app to consolidate the learning success and to deepen the topics digitally.

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Topic: What is an insurance and which one do I need in particular?
Format: PDF
Length: 24 p.
Total duration: approx. 4 hours
Number of lesson hours: 5 (1 LH = 45 minutes)

Description:

The Finanzfit-Workshop #3 on the topic of "Insurances" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. The workshop is designed to be about 4 hours long and to be worked on in a group. Individual exercises or materials can and may of course be used independently of the rest of the workshop. In order to help structure the workshop or the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

In five teaching phases, basic knowledge about dealing with money is developed. The focus in this workshop is, of course, on Insurances.

The five phases build on each other as follows:

1. First, learners approach the topic with their own knowledge and intuition.
2. In the next phase, basic insurance skills are taught. For this purpose, the students should get a feeling for when insurance can be useful.
3. In the third phase the students' insurance knowledge is deepened, e.g. by learning how insurance works or by learning how to deal with insurance using examples.
4. In order to test the progress made, the learners can play mini-games on the web-app.
5. Finally, media content is available on the web-app to consolidate the learning success and to deepen the topics digitally.

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Topic: Liquidity
Format: PDF
Length: 22 p.
Total duration: approx. 3 ½ hours
Number of lesson hours: 5 (1 LH = 45 minutes)

Description:

The Finanzfit-Workshop #4 on the topic of "Liquidity" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. The workshop is designed to be about 3 ½ hours long and to be worked on in a group. Individual exercises or materials can and may of course be used independently of the rest of the workshop. In order to help structure the workshop or the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

In three teaching phases, basic knowledge about dealing with money is developed. The focus in this workshop is, of course, on Liquidity.

The three phases build on each other as follows:

1. First, learners approach the topic with their own knowledge and intuition.
2. In the next phase, students get a feeling for their own liquidity. For this purpose, they reflect on what they spend money on regularly.
3. The students' knowledge about liquidity is then deepened by making a monthly expenditure table and by learning how to self-check their finances.
4. In order to test the progress made, the learners can play mini-games on the web-app.
5. Finally, media content is available on the web-app to consolidate the learning success and to deepen the topics digitally.

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Topic: What is a current account and how do I use it?
Format: PDF
Length: 35 p.
Total duration: approx. 4 ½ hours
Number of lesson hours: 6 (1 LH = 45 minutes)

Description:

The Finanzfit-Workshop #5 on the topic of "Current accounts" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. The workshop is designed to be about 4 ½ hours long and to be worked on in a group. Individual exercises or materials can and may of course be used independently of the rest of the workshop. In order to help structure the workshop or the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

In five teaching phases, basic knowledge about dealing with money is developed. The focus in this workshop is, of course, on current accounts.

The five phases build on each other as follows:

1. First, learners approach the topic with their own knowledge and intuition.
2. In the next phase, students should get a feeling for when a current account can be useful. For this purpose, they reflect on their income and expenditure.
3. In phase three the students' knowledge is to be deepened by learning what exactly a current account is and what they can use it for.
4. In order to test the progress made, the learners can play mini-games on the web-app.
5. Finally, media content is available on the web-app to consolidate the learning success and to deepen the topics digitally.

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Topic: Retirement Planning
Format: PDF
Length: 23 p.
Total duration: approx. 4 hours
Number of lesson hours: 5 (1 LH = 45 minutes)

Description:

The Finanzfit-Workshop #6 on the topic of "Retirement planning" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. It deals with the German pension system. The workshop is designed to be about 4 hours long and to be worked on in a group. Individual exercises or materials can and may of course be used independently of the rest of the workshop. In order to help structure the workshop or the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

In five teaching phases, basic knowledge about dealing with money is developed. The focus in this workshop is, of course, on Retirement planning.

The five phases build on each other as follows:

1. First, learners approach the topic with their own knowledge and intuition.
2. In the next phase, basic financial skills are taught. To this end, the learners are taught to reflect on their income and expenditure and to think about their own ability to save.
3. The acquired competencies are consolidated by the student learning about the three-shift model of old-age provision. 
4. In order to test the progress made, the learners can play mini-games on the web-app.
5. Finally, media content is available on the web-app to consolidate the learning success and to deepen the topics digitally.

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Topic: Additional material to supplement or reinforce
Format: PDF
Length: 25 p.

Description

The Finanzfit-Workshop #7 "Infopool" is intended to support teachers and is not suitable for independent learning. The document is intended to provide various excercises to be used in tandem with the other workshops and to provide additional content, especially for students, who finished their excersises faster than the rest of their group. In order to help structure the use of the exercises, all exercises are provided with their planned duration.

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