Success Story2024 Dollars and Sense
2024 Dollars and Sense
Author: Peggy Jones
Planning Unit: Rowan County CES
Major Program: Family and Consumer Science
Plan of Work: Enhance Life Skills and Build Consumer Awareness...Financial
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
The problem: Youth making money decisions.
The educational program response; Youth enjoyed role playing in earning, buying and using money for merchandise for their pretend of being on their own.
The participants/target audience: 4th grade
Other partners (if applicable) Youth Service Center Directors, Business teachers from the High School and their students,
Program impact or participant response: The Dollars and Sense Program successfully introduced over 225 - 4th graders to a 1/2 day of real world application of earning and spending their money wisely. Over 90% of the students used their skills to try to spend their money wisely. 100% of the students admitted that it was a hard job to make ends meet with their income and 10% couldn't make it to the end of the month's bills.
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