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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.

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6th - 9th
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Social Studies & History
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