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13/08/2008

Money matters and mobiles

Research reveals that almost half of 8-11 year olds own a mobile phone, but only 15% of them are responsible for paying the bill.*

Use of mobile phones provides a real life context for helping children understand money matters and develop their financial skills for life.

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) has worked with eight primary schools to develop new and innovative teaching practices that would help children aged 9-11 make a connection between using the phone and paying the bill.

This resource pack records their experiences and offers schemes of work, lesson plans, PowerPoint guides to lessons, activities and examples of pupils' work to give you ideas to plan and teach personal finance around mobile phones - and it's free!

Simply click here to download a copy.

To find out more, please visit pfeg.

N.B.: The resource is a .zip archive. Please 'Save' the file to your computer, then right-click it and select 'Extract All...'. This will make sure that all links to external documents that are included with the resource work correctly.

* Source: Ofcom, Media Literacy Audit, Report on media literacy among young people, May 2006.

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