financial citizenship

• Values


  What you believe is important in life and show up in your decisions, actions, and judgments
• Things that make up your character

  • Goals
  • Values
  • Wants
  • Needs
• What types of things influence our values

  • Family members
  • Religion
  • Culture
• According to Hans Rosling, the two things that contribute to energy use the most are population and economic growth
• Quality of Life


  An individual or community's well-being
• Capitalism


  An economic system in which private individuals or businesses own the means of production and the economy is driven by supply and demand with no government involvement
• Peer pressure refers to how others around your own age can influence your thinking- on purpose or not
• SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
• When an item starts to become a desire and loses its value of survival it becomes a WANT
• Many First Nations communities across Canada do not have access to safe drinking water
• A traditional economy is a system in which the development and distribution of goods and services are determined by customs, traditions, and time-honoured beliefs
• Approximately 40% of all purchases are impulse buys
• Under Socialism, the government makes all decisions related to the production of goods and how those goods are distributed
• In a free-market economy, the supply of goods and services is meant to match the demands of consumers
• Factors such as emotions and advertising can influence our decision to purchase goods and services
• Goals are a combination of short-term wants and long-term desires
• Lack of access to clean water

  Causes waterborne diseases, high death and infant mortality rates