Start Here: Using the Teaching Resources
Practical activities, guided discussion, and further learning for homeschooling, classroom enrichment, and group learning.
Welcome to the MLMF Teaching Resources
This section helps parents, educators, and group leaders teach monetary literacy through practical activities, guided discussion, and further learning.
The materials connect directly to the Monetary Literacy & Mastery Foundation's existing curriculum, documentaries, simulators, and extended studies.
Use them alongside your current schooling, as part of a homeschool program, or for a summer learning session, economics club, or library workshop.
Prepare
Choose a suitable topic, read the teacher notes, and gather the materials before beginning.
Teach
Guide learners through an activity, discuss their observations, and check their understanding.
Explore
Continue through the related curriculum lessons, documentaries, simulators, and extended reading.
Who These Materials Are For
The lesson packs are designed for parents teaching at home, teachers adding enrichment activities, and facilitators working with small groups. Independent learners can also use the activities to check their understanding.
Check each pack's suggested age, difficulty, and prerequisite knowledge before beginning. The teacher notes will help you prepare the explanation and adapt the activity to your learners.
What You Will Find in Each Topic
Each lesson-pack topic will bring together the teaching materials for one concept:
Learning goals, suggested level, estimated teaching time, and materials needed.
A short explanation and instructions for leading the activity.
A worksheet, practical exercise, or guided simulator investigation.
Questions, suggested answers, and a brief check of understanding.
Relevant curriculum lessons, documentary viewing, extended reading, and supporting sources.
Student sheets and teacher notes for use away from the screen.
Encourage Questions and Evidence
Ask learners to explain their reasoning, identify the assumptions in an example, and check claims against the linked sources.
When a documentary or article presents an interpretation, discuss the evidence supporting it and what further information would help assess it.
The aim is for learners to understand the mechanisms well enough to explain them, ask informed questions, and investigate further.
How to Use a Lesson Pack
1. Choose a topic and prepare.
Read the overview and teacher notes. Check the recommended background reading, gather the materials, and open any simulator or video you plan to use.
2. Begin with the opening question.
Ask learners what they think happens before explaining the concept. Keep their predictions so they can compare them with what they discover.
3. Complete the activity.
Follow the instructions and record the results. Encourage learners to explain what changed and why. Use the paper alternative when one is provided.
4. Discuss and review.
Work through the questions together, then let learners complete the short understanding check independently. Use the answer guide to identify anything that needs another explanation.
5. Continue learning.
Follow the linked lesson, documentary, or extended reading. Each suggested extension will include a question or task to give the reading or viewing a clear purpose.
Choose the Time You Have
Use the format that suits your learners and the time available.
Begin with the core activity, typically designed for around 15 minutes. Allow preparation time beforehand.
Add discussion, reading, or documentary viewing. Extended sessions will generally run around 45–60 minutes; check the individual pack's schedule.
Spread the activity, documentary, and follow-up reading across different days. Move on when learners can explain the central idea in their own words.
How This Connects to the Rest of MLMF
The teaching packs provide a practical way to work through material across the Foundation:
Money Mechanics provides the core lessons to read alongside the activities.
Interactive Simulators let learners change inputs and examine the results within a model.
Documentary & Video provides material for guided viewing and discussion.
Extended Studies offers further reading and questions to investigate.
Each pack will identify the specific resources that support its activity, so you can follow the connections directly.
Lesson packs are being added to this section. The first pack focuses on How Bank Lending Creates Currency.
Questions or Feedback
Use the replies below for general questions about the teaching resources. For questions about a particular activity, reply in that lesson-pack topic.
If you use a pack, tell us what worked, what needed clarification, and which concepts you would like to teach next.
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