Making Good Investments

Young scholars identify the role of money in everyday life. In this algebra instructional activity, students discuss the benefits of having a savings account. They practice making deposits and withdrawals from their bank accounts and...

Money represents decisions: spending decisions, saving decisions, and investing decisions. Encourage young adults to think about the decisions they make with their money in a three-day unit about personal finance, consumer spending, and...

Students explore the concept of investing.  In this investment instructional activity, students discuss the best way to invest money.  Students then write essays, taking two seperate points of view. 

Students discover information about making investments. In this personal finance lesson, students watch a video and visit the Vanguard website in order to complete a worksheet activity to help them identify methods of investments.

Students differentiate between saving and investing money. In this algebra lesson, students compare different investment options, recognizing the risks and rewards of investing and integrate investing into their financial planning.

A lesson in personal finance can be the most valuable part of a high school education. Connect the basics of banking with informational reading skills in a lesson that prompts teenagers to answer a series of questions based on an array...

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.

High schoolers make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.

Debt is a topic that affects everybody: the community, the nation, and the entire globe. Kids take charge of debt by designing a project that informs those in their community about good financial choices, keeps personal debt low, and...

Young scholars learn that maintaining financial security takes a good math understanding. In this lesson, students apply mathematical formulas to make important financial decisions like getting the right loan to buy a house, decide which...