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- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students invest and track their pretend $3,000 over a period of time. They pretend to invest $1,000 each in stocks, $1,000 in a saving account, and $1,000 in some type of "metal." Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students act as financial advisors and develop a financial investment portfolio for each client using Internet references as they analyze the various saving options. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students gain a basic knowledge of saving and investing, a process that begins with setting financial goals. They explore potential investment frauds as con artists look for new opportunities to separate people from their money. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine a number of investment options and their risks by interviewing family or community members. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students research the stock market and, using a website, track $100,000 worth of investments over a nine-week period. They attempt to increase the value of their portfolio. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students examine how money can work differently for every individual, identify various sources for saving and investing, and discuss most beneficial savings or investing plans for one's budget. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how to research companies to determine if they are good investments. They simulate that they have inherited $10,000 and need to invest the money into two stocks, research companies online, and present the information to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students use different methods of investment appraisal to make business decisions, and also to develop higher order skills through having to consider other factors, apart from quantitative methods, that a business might have to consider in making business decisions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 11th
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Students explore investment plans. They write the explicit and recursive forms of the sequence of an investment and compare the amount to the continuously compounded interest formula for the same time period, interest and principal. Sample of student work included. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students use the Internet to research various companies to determine if they are smart investment choices. Using a role-play activity, they pretend they have received an inheritance from a distant relative. They invest the money into two companies and track their gain or loss. Full Review »

