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- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson introducing them to the concept of Risk and Return. Risk and return is a basic principle that should be understood before investing money. They utilize an interactive worksheet imbedded in this plan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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
- 6th - 12th
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Students identify characteristics of different investment options. They discuss the importance of diversification. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students simulate the role of financial advisers, developing a financial investment portfolio for clients using Internet resources and analyzing various saving options. They track the portfolio for several weeks and evaluate their investment strategies. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students determine how the financial institutions of a market economy help channel savings to economic investment. They complete worksheets based on a teacher-led demonstration. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students examine the pros and cons of the various personal savings and investment options available in the United States. They evaluate which options would give the highest return and which would be the safest as well as brainstorming the effects of savings and investments on the national economy. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students reasearch how individuals save and invest in different countries of Asia, Africa, and the Southwest Pacific compared to the United States. They review the fact that economic systems, standards of living, trade agreements, and other economic factors vary from country to country. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students investigate what investing is and how it works. They participate in a class discussion on investments, visit the "Investment Pier" on the ING website, and complete a worksheet in which they "build" a time capsule that contains five items that they believe will be worth more in fifty years. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students investigate the stock market and investing in corporate stocks by creating an investment portfolio. They develop database worksheets that track their stock's performance over a specified period of time. Students use their stock data to create a performance report. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students analyze the stock market from Post WWII through today. Through an interactive simulation, students are given an opportunity to earn "millions". They will analyze the stock market from a historical perspective and explain the reason why long-term investments are important for investors. Full Review »

