Guided Inquiry Financial Literacy
Jamie’s Journey
Follow Jamie through a connected series of real-life financial decisions designed to build informed decision-making, not simply financial knowledge.
Jamie’s Journey uses the Financial Decision Inquiry Framework™ to place students inside authentic financial situations involving wants and needs, paycheques, budgeting, saving, credit cards, and credit scores.
Six Connected Financial Investigations
Jamie’s financial journey develops across six connected Investigations. Each new situation builds on earlier decisions, giving students repeated opportunities to examine evidence, make choices, and reconsider their thinking.
Wants & Needs
Students begin by weighing competing priorities and deciding how Jamie should use limited money.
Paycheque
Jamie starts earning employment income and students investigate what a paycheque reveals about earnings and deductions.
Budget
Students organize Jamie’s available money and commitments to build and evaluate a practical budget.
Savings
Jamie considers different saving options while students compare trade-offs, time horizons, and financial goals.
Credit Cards
Students evaluate credit-card choices and consider how product features and personal behaviour affect financial outcomes.
Credit Scores
The series concludes by examining how credit behaviour, evidence, and financial decisions can influence future borrowing opportunities.
Why Jamie’s Journey Works
Jamie’s Journey is designed to move financial literacy beyond isolated facts and calculations by placing students inside connected decisions that develop over time.
Connected Decisions
Students follow the consequences of earlier choices instead of treating each financial topic as a separate lesson.
Evidence Before Explanation
Students examine situations and evidence before being given conclusions, supporting genuine inquiry and reasoning.
Decisions Must Be Defended
Students explain their thinking, compare alternatives, and justify decisions using the evidence available to them.
Thinking Can Change
New evidence can challenge earlier conclusions, giving students legitimate opportunities to revise their thinking.
Teacher-Ready Materials
Each Investigation includes structured student materials and teacher guidance designed for practical classroom use.
Built on FDIF™
The series applies the Financial Decision Inquiry Framework™ to support meaningful, transferable financial decision-making.
Designed for Educators
Who Jamie’s Journey Is For
Jamie’s Journey is designed for educators teaching financial literacy in Grades 8–12 and can be adapted to different classroom contexts, course structures, and levels of prior student knowledge
Well suited for: financial literacy, career education, applied skills, advisory, and interdisciplinary classroom settings.
Teacher-Ready Series
What’s Included in Jamie’s Journey
The complete series provides the materials needed to take students through all six connected financial Investigations while preserving the inquiry process from one decision to the next.
- Six connected financial-literacy Investigations
- Complete Student Investigation Package
- Complete Teacher Guide
- Classroom Slide Package
- Shared Resources Package
- A consistent guided-inquiry structure across the series
Explore Jamie’s Journey Before You Decide
Preview the series structure, instructional approach, and classroom materials before choosing whether Jamie’s Journey is right for your students.
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A Complete Classroom-Ready Resource Package
Jamie’s Journey brings together teacher guidance, student investigation materials, classroom presentation support, and shared resources in one connected six-Investigation series.
Choose the Right Licence
Bring Jamie’s Journey to Your Classroom
Jamie’s Journey is available as a complete six-Investigation series. Individual teachers can purchase the full classroom-ready package for CAD $89.
Individual Teacher
Complete six-Investigation package for one named educator.
Includes all teacher, student, presentation, shared-resource, and support materials.
School Licence
12-month licence for up to three named educators at one school. Annual renewal available.
District / Multi-School
Flexible licensing for multiple schools, teams, or organizations.
Prices in Canadian dollars. Applicable taxes added at checkout. Licence terms apply.