Success StoryDollars & Sense with the Wildcat Skills Camp at BJES



Dollars & Sense with the Wildcat Skills Camp at BJES

Author: Anna Denny

Planning Unit: Breckinridge County CES

Major Program: 21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)

Plan of Work: Building 21st century skills for a successful community workforce

Outcome: Initial Outcome

On Thursdays in March, the Ben Johnson Elementary School in Breckinridge County have been doing Wildcat Skills Camps. On March 9th, twenty five students in the fourth and fifth grade learned about finances through the Dollars and Sense 4-H program. They learned about banking, specifically how a checking account works, wrote checks, made deposits, made debit purchases, balanced a checkbook, and completed the Dollars and Sense Simulation. The instructor, DJ Riggs, got transaction registers from First State Bank and made the students their own set of checks. The students were given a five question, finance pretest and post test. The pretest class average was 60%. The post test class average was 92%,






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