LTS software: Lifeskills - Traveller's Cheque

Publisher: LTS
Brief description: This CD-ROM helps students learn about the processes involved in selecting, booking and saving for a holiday. Along the way they will learn essential life skills including opening and running a bank account as well as vital organisational and administration skills. All activities have been designed to appeal equally to older students with special educational needs and children at the later stages of primary and early secondary.

Activities include:

• opening a bank account to save for a holiday including using bank cards and an ATM
• working to earn money
• selecting and booking a holiday
• paying the deposit for a holiday
• saving the balance for a holiday
• paying the balance of a holiday by the due date
• saving spending money
• obtaining a passport
• obtaining foreign currency
• buying holiday clothes and other essential holiday items.

This cross-curricular resource addresses challenges raised in financial education and the 5-14 guidelines on personal and social development. The activities are differentiated both by task and by difficulty and will provide students with individualised learning paths tailored to their needs.

Includes teacher's manual and worksheets.

Subject areas: Mathematics, Personal and Social Development, Citizenship, Financial Education
Price (ex VAT): Single user £39.99 / Network: £79.95
Ref: L10035