Colorado
3rd Grade
State Standards
Look below to see how Banzai's courses, worksheets, activities, and games align with the Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy for 3rd Grade. Use the filters to change the location, set of standards, and grade level. Note, any one activity listed will satisfy the associated competency.
Personal Financial Literacy
8: Apply economic reasoning skills to make informed personal financial decisions.
FL.3.5.1: Create a plan to meet a financial goal.
Students Can
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
a: Give examples of short-term spending and savings goals.
b: Identify activities that individuals can do to earn money to reach personal financial goals.
c: Differentiate the role of income and expenses when creating a budget.
d: Create a plan with specific steps to reach a short-term financial goal.
e: Model strategies to achieve a personal financial goal using arithmetic operations.
Colorado Essential Skills
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Use a variety of strategies to achieve a financial goal, such as buying a new toy (Critical Thinking and Analysis).
Under Development
2: Demonstrate flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in taking on tasks and activities that will help reach a financial goal (Creativity and Innovation).
Under Development
3: Set goals and develop strategies to remain focused on learning and reaching financial goals (Perseverance and Resilience).
Under Development
4: Recognize how members of a community rely on each other, considering personal contributions as applicable, when creating and completing a plan to reach a financial goal (Collaboration and Teamwork).
Under Development
5: Demonstrate an understanding of cause and effect related to personal decisions they make regarding reaching a financial goal (Critical Thinking and Analysis).
Under Development
6: Articulate task requirements and identify deadlines when developing a plan to meet a financial goal (Self-Management).
Under Development
Inquiry Questions
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: What would happen if an individual spent all earnings on entertainment?
Under Development
2: Why do individuals give away money?
Under Development
3: Why is personal financial goal setting important?
Under Development
4: How does an individual know when a good short-term goal is well-written?
Under Development
Nature and Skills of Personal Financial Literacy
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Financially capable individuals create goals and work toward meeting them.
Under Development
2: Financially capable individuals understand the cost and the accountability associated with borrowing.
3: Financially capable individuals understand that personal financial goal setting is a lifelong activity and short-term goal setting is essential to that process. For example: Saving for a fish aquarium or skateboard.
Under Development
4: Financially capable individuals understand that an analysis of various options for borrowing and creating short- and long-term goals is a lifelong skill.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy
Standard
Defined by Colorado Academic Standards: Financial Literacy
Banzai Solutions
*Any of the activities listed will satisfy the standard
1: Compare the benefits and costs of individual choices.
Under Development
2: Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.
Under Development
3: Analyze different texts (including experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia texts) to compare competing theories, points of view, and arguments in the discipline.
Under Development