Active+Allowance



Active Allowance is a great site to use at home with your children or in the classroom. The checklists are very easy to create and you can personalize them however you like. I have categories from attendance to doing a good deed.

Active allowance basic features:
 * Free to use (more extensive plan for $20 a year)
 * Save ‘Chore Charts’ so they can be modified in the future
 * Create a chart for each child

My Class Checklist includes categorizes for homeroom, homework, miscellaneous and then bonuses/rewards. Please see the attached checklist.

Why I chose Active Allowance: I spent a great deal of time looking for a site that would fit into the second grade classroom that I am currently observing in. I thought that this was a great match and it would be a great way to make all students responsible learners. The charts have key areas that are important for you to include in your classroom and it is fun and easy to use!

Educator Comments: “I am incorporating your site to instill Financial Literacy in my classroom. But in addition, AA also offers me a forum to promote the social sciences (not just mathematics) – economics and political science – as well as foster teamwork, initiative and leadership skills. Since the beginning of the school year, kids in my class have been working in teams after establishing their jobs list (chores)” “I started using Active Allowance in my class last April. My “ Eureka moment” came when I figured out how to use your site to connect responsibility and reward in a classroom setting without actually “paying” a monetary allowance. I invented an in-class “economy” — with great success! I created “teams” of kids. Since it was near the end of the year, the kids knew each other well enough (and I them) that I could create groups based on capabilities, temperaments, etc. In this way, I was able to have a little bit of everything (the good, the bad and the ugly!) in each group. I wanted the use of checklists to pay dividends based on their behavior. I also wanted them to be able to track their successes (or failures) in the virtual world, so the points-to-dollars functionality of the site and the virtual “Bank” were also really useful.”

Make sure to check the site out at: http://www.activeallowance.com/index.html

~Kala Bostrom