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Avoiding Consumer Fraud: Financial Scams and Schemes Lesson PlanAvoiding Consumer Fraud: Financial Scams and Schemes Lesson Plan
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Grade
9th - 12th
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Math
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3 hrs
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2011
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Avoiding Consumer Fraud: Financial Scams and Schemes

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Young consumers get a hefty dose of information on how fraud can put their financial health at risk. The resource provides detailed lecture notes, scaffolded notetaking sheets, vocabulary worksheets, transparencies, and seven links to further research. Enhance relevance by assigning inquiry-based research about scams your high schoolers and their families have experienced, or have groups create dramatic presentations in which they act out scams and schemes in action.

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the internet, life skills, consumers

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internet, consumer, fraud, life skills, phishing, scams, adult responsibilities, pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, math

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