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  • Life Skills // Money & Finance

    Financial Planning

    Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

    Ages 9 to 11Concept
  • Life Skills // Money & Finance

    Borrowing & Debt

    What borrowing money means; that loans must be repaid with interest; what credit is; why too much debt can be risky; responsible borrowing

    Ages 9 to 11Concept
  • Life Skills // Money & Finance

    Taxes & Public Services

    What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

    Ages 9 to 11Concept
  • Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

    Choosing a Strategy

    Before starting a study task, choose a deliberate strategy; after finishing, evaluate honestly whether that strategy actually helped

    Ages 9 to 10Thinking skill
  • Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

    Reflecting After Learning

    After completing a piece of learning, reflect on the process: what helped most, what was confusing, and what would you do differently next time?

    Ages 9 to 10Thinking skill
  • Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

    Finding Knowledge Gaps

    Survey your own understanding of a whole topic — identify where your knowledge is solid, where it is shaky, and what still needs work

    Ages 10 to 11Thinking skill
  • Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

    Setting Learning Goals

    Set a specific learning goal, work towards it with a deliberate plan, then honestly assess whether you achieved it and what you would change

    Ages 10 to 11Thinking skill
  • Electronics // Circuits

    Complete circuits

    Electricity flows only around an unbroken loop from one side of a power source, through components, and back to the other side. A switch works by opening and…

    Ages 8 to 11Concept
  • Electronics // Circuits

    Current, voltage and resistance

    Voltage is the push from the source, current is how much charge flows each second, and resistance is how strongly a component limits that flow. Turning up the…

    Ages 11 to 14Concept
  • Electronics // Components

    Light-emitting diodes

    An LED lights when current flows through it one way, from the longer leg to the shorter. It needs a resistor in series so the current stays small enough not to…

    Ages 11 to 14Method