TEACHER RESOURCES

Run Your Own Workshop, for Free!

Are you a Teacher in Grades 4-9 looking for an activity that will help you deliver some fun-damental financial literacy? Everything you need to conduct your own Gifting Sense workshop is on this page. Let your students know what they need to do to get ready, by sharing the handout.  They can start calculating DIMS – Does It Make Sense?® SCORES at any time. Just go to the DIMS SCORE® Calculator!

What Have We Learned  Delivering Workshops?

Read about our experiences teaching kids how to calculate the DIMS SCORE® for a potential purchase.

Here is a Customizable Handout

Download a customizable handout you can distribute to your students and/or their parents announcing the special activity you have planned.

Check Out the Gifting Sense Glossary

What is a warranty? You know what Sales Tax is, but do your students? Download and distribute the Gifting Sense Glossary. Kids can take it home and post it on the family fridge. Consider confirming the learning that happens during your workshop by incorporating some of the terms into an upcoming vocabulary or math test.

Press

Have a look at what others are saying!

Gifting Sense Comes Second Only to the University of Chicago’s finEDge Program at the 2022 Money Awareness & Inclusion Awards!

Best Non-profit School-aged Education was another important and hotly contested category with submissions from around the world, although the winner and runner-up were both strong entries from North America.

The runner-up, Gifting Sense, is focussed on building an ability in children to think before they buy…Equipped with a Does It Make Sense? (DIMS) Score Calculator that creates a pause before purchase, Gifting Sense hopes that when children learn how not to waste money, families will experience increased harmony, improved financial well-being, and the knowledge that they are protecting the planet.

PATRICK JENKINS, DEPUTY EDITOR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES,  2022 MONEY AWARENESS AND INCLUSION AWARD RESULTS

Best Non-profit for School-aged Runner-up: Gifting Sense

“Think before you buy.” What I love about this is how it targets one very specific moment in our lives… and uses it as a springboard to more understanding of money.

MICHAEL GILMORE, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, AUTHOR, FOUNDER of the  MONEY AWARENESS AND INCLUSION AWARDS

“Oh Wow!” Was what one of the kids on today’s KiddieNomics webinar said when they found out what the real cost of “just” going to the movies would be. All thanks to the PHENOMENAL Gifting Sense.

STACY BROWN, FOUNDER, KIDDIENOMICS

“Awesome class! Every child should take it!”
“My son really liked the real-life examples he could understand.”
“The content of the class and positive interaction are top notch. It really made an impact on our daughter.”

OUTSCHOOL PARENTS

Our middle schoolers responded enthusiastically to how the DIMS SCORE® calculator helps them lay out the math and important stats to justify a purchase. The website was user friendly, self-explanatory, and an easy to use tool that students shared they will continue to utilize on their own going forward.

HEBREW PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS FOR GLOBAL CITIZENS

Gifting Sense presented to a group of freshmen here at Quest Forward Academy. The content was extremely relevant and our students were excited to be a part of it. Being able to answer questions about their purchases, or purchases they are asking a family member to make, really helped them learn the value of an item. Our students said they could see themselves using the worksheet regularly.

QUEST FORWARD ACADEMY OMAHA

How can we get our kids to thoughtfully consider what’s on their wish list for the holidays (or their birthday, graduation or other celebrations)? Ask them to calculate the DIMS – Does It Make Sense?® Score for possible purchases. Calculating the DIMS SCORE® teaches kids to quickly research the true value of a possible purchase – how much they’ll really use and appreciate something before they ask for it.

ROBIN TAUB, CPA, CA, AUTHOR, THE WISEST INVESTMENT

Gifting Sense has a most interesting approach to helping young people learn how to avoid FOMO (fear of missing out), reduce waste (of time and money), and protect the planet, all through more thoughtful consumer decision making.

DR. MOIRA SOMERS, PH.D., C.PSYCH. AUTHOR, ADVICE THAT STICKS

I love how the real gift, the one that can last a lifetime, is learning how easy it is to think before you buy.

NICOLE DUBÉ, CTV MORNING LIVE

GiftingSense.org is genius. It walks your kid through a big purchase and gives them a DIMS (“Does It Make Sense?”) Score. How much is the item? How many times will you use it? And it generates a letter for the kids to give their parents to justify their purchase.

BRUCE SELLERY, CEO CREDIT CANADA AND HOST OF MOOLALA ON SIRIUSXM

One of the most difficult personal finance decisions is figuring out what is a need, versus a want. Teaching your kids how to evaluate the difference can be particularly tricky. The “Does It Make Sense? Score” takes the guesswork out of the equation. What a brilliant tool for setting the foundation for kids to become money-smart adults!”

KELLEY KEEHN, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF RICH GIRL, BROKE GIRL

Gifting Sense facilitated a free workshop for women attending programs at the Women’s Centre of York Region. They discussed the importance of talking to kids about money, as well as provided the strategies and tools to do so. Women who attended provided 5 star reviews stating that the program was incredibly engaging and helpful.

ALLISON HERMANN, PROGRAM MANAGER, WOMEN’S CENTRE OF YORK REGION

Give Every One of Your Students a Free Gifting Sense Pencil!

Finish your workshop the same way we do, with a smiling reminder for kids to “…sharpen their pencils, and calculate the DIMS SCORE® before (they) ask for, or buy something”. Gifting Sense pencils are free to any educator who requests them. It’s our small way of saying “Thank You Teachers” for everything you do – especially this year!

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