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Family Economics & Financial Education
| Publisher: |
University of Arizona |
| Web Address: |
www.fefe.arizona.edu |
| Contact: |
Nicole Wanago
chinadle@email.arizona.edu |
| Target Grades: |
6-12 |
| Cost: |
Free to download absolutly everything. If desired however, hard copies of the curriculum may also be purchased for a small fee. |
| Training Available: |
Yes |
| Clock Hours Available: |
Yes |
| Format: |
Most of our curriculum is avialable to be delivered by an educator in a traditional classroom environment with hands-on activities and worksheets. We are currently developing online games and interactive tools which will be available soon. |
| Lesson Structure: |
Stand-alone Lessons; Unit Lessons; Interdependent Lessons; Although our lessons are designed to be stand-alone, they may also be taught as a unit. We also have everything from a two-week course recomendation to tri-mesters, semester, and year-long courses. |
| Instructional Hours Required: |
Stand-Alone Lessons; Unit Lessons; Complete Curriculum; Stand alone - we have everything from 60 minute workshop based lessons, to multi-day lessons, to project based lessons getting students out in their community providing financial education. Unit lessons - vary greatly from 1 - 12 weeks. Complete curriculum - has over 100 lesson plans available. We have tri-mester, semester, and year-long guides. |
| Languages: |
English |
| Proof of Effectiveness: |
Rigorous |
| Aligned to Washington State Standards: |
Yes |
| Aligned to Jump$tart Standards: |
Yes |
| Additional Publisher Comments: |
Unique components of every lesson in our curriculum also include: - Lessons are designed by teachers for teacher though an active collaboration we have with classroom teachers testing and modifying each lesson on an ongoing basis; -- Lesson plans are up-to-date continually being modified to reflect current content, research, and teaching theory; - FEFE has a full-time staff available to support educators; - A one week national training as well as 1-3 day state trainings are available to help train educators; - A bi-monthly newsletter is distributed free of charge providing content updates; - And much more coming soon including a student Web site using Web 2.0 technologies, online professional development opportunities, and updated FEFE Web site. Please let me know if you have any questions. |
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