Financial Literacy made E A S Y !

I teach Y7 & Y8. We love using Banqer! The students participate in weekly "Bonus Bucks" tasks that aim to improve their fitness or our school. Usually we have a physical challenge (example: 10 pushups, full form, for B$10) and then something that enforces our school values (collect 20 pieces of rubbish from the playground on your own break time for B$20, redeemable 5 times per week.). Honestly - I've never seen a cleaner area outside of our class!I created physical Banqer Bucks with values of B$10, B$20 and B$50. They are not given for following school rules, but for doing something above that. I use them in class when I see learning being shared (peer teaching for example), or for when I ask them to do something outside of their usual "norm" (give up their time to help me assign and deliver 300 school production tickets!!). The students have to be responsible for them all week until the Bank opens on a Friday afternoon. My student banker has a key to the lock box and he collects in the payments.In the shop, we have items to buy such as "crowd funding for the tea station in the class kitchen" - students can donate some of their savings to ensure I restock the tea selection. We also have options that require minimum amounts of students to contribute to before it can happen (if 10 people pay $100 then Mrs Milligan will wear a ridiculous outfit for the day; if 15 people donate $25 then the class can choose their own PE schedule for the week). This really helps them with having conversations in real life - negotiating, listening to their peers, understanding not everyone wants to contribute but will ultimately benefit from it so they are learning about dealing with perceived "unfairness". It also makes them consider if this is a NEED vs a WANT. They might want me to wear an inflatable T-Rex costume, but is it really worth $1,000 from the class? (Newsflash, it was. I need to renegotiate the price this year....)We use it for our classroom job management too. The students keep each other honest by doing what any teenager would do....dob their mate in when they don't complete their assigned job! Overall, it usually works pretty well :)I translate every single resource into three other languages to assist my ESOL students (Chinese, Korean and Slovak). I would appreciate it if the resources might have some more common second language already translated as this does take some time.