GLC2O Unit 5: Planning and Money

Students picture their first postsecondary year, select and organize information from their portfolio to refine a first-year goal, and build a backward plan with opportunities, challenges, if-then strategies and a Plan B. They write resumes and cover letters or program statements and practise interviews and 30-second pitches. In the money lessons they sort needs and wants, learn to pay themselves first, calculate simple and compound interest, compare savings accounts, GICs and registered plans (TFSA, RESP, FHSA and RRSP, in general terms), learn how credit scores work, compare credit cards, loans, lines of credit, student aid, buy now pay later and payday loans, and build and balance first-year budgets for two invented destinations (living at home and working, and college away from home) before drafting their own. The work completes the Plan and Money sections of the Career Portfolio. The summative, an Application Package and Budget, is worth 18% of the final grade.

Assessment of learning: Application Package and Budget: a resume, cover letter or program statement, and a first-year budget with savings and borrowing choices explained.

Lessons

1. My First Postsecondary Year
2. Making a Plan
3. Resumes and Cover Letters
4. Interviews and Pitches
5. Saving and Financial Responsibility
6. Borrowing Wisely
7. Building a Budget

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets, with original scenarios and examples
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative task with a rubric and teacher guide

Built for the Ontario curriculum (Career Studies, Grade 10, Open, GLC2O, 2024, including the mental health literacy expectations) and Ontario's 2026 evaluation policy (65% classroom work, 15% culminating task, 5% financial literacy graduation requirement, 15% attendance and participation), and easy to adapt for any Canadian career education course.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.