With the country needs assessment closed, the consortium is now collecting concrete classroom examples that show what STEM-meets-finance teaching looks like when it works. Each of the six partners contributes three short case descriptions by 12 June, giving a working library of 18 examples for the SPARK curriculum framework.
The brief for each example
- A clear interdisciplinary hook — what makes it STEAM and personal-finance, rather than one taught in service of the other.
- The age group and approximate lesson length.
- What worked, what didn’t, and what would need to change to scale.
- Where possible, links to materials or photos with permission to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Why we’re doing this
Two reasons. First: the national reports surfaced a recurring teacher request for plug-in modules rather than standalone courses — so the SPARK toolkit needs to map onto formats that already work in real classrooms. Second: examples written up by the people who actually ran them are far more credible to other teachers than a clean theoretical framework.
Kevin (Malta) has set up a ChatGPT-backed generator that produces a uniform description structure from each partner’s raw notes — making the eighteen entries comparable without losing the local voice. The full catalogue will be reviewed at the 19 June online meeting and integrated into the WP2 deliverable.