Saving For Retirement

How can money grow through saving and investing? Pupils explore different types of financial institutions, learn about interest rates and stock ownership, and conduct independent research on the various ways they can save money.

Impress upon your young adults the importance of saving and investing, and give them a foundational vocabulary from which they can continue to build their financial literacy. This lesson plan covers short- and long-term budget goals,...

Learn the difference between saving money and investing money, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each. Kids review banking and personal finance terms before studying the different ways that people can reach their financial...

Students brainstorm reasons to save money, investigate impact of saving regularly using interactive, on-line calculators, explain how compounding interest affects savings, explore different strategies for saving money, and write personal...

Students discuss money and interest.  For this discussing money and interest lesson, students discuss positives of an economic recession.  Students discuss how savings rates have increased over time and the general attitude towards...

In this story problem learning exercise, students solve a variety of story problems. They compute net pay, figure the amount of a hotel bill, and find equal amounts. There are four story problems in this one-page learning exercise.

The Golden Years? Upper graders may think retirement is a long way off, but in life everything is just around the corner. They consider what it means to retire and the current trend of parents working for their Learners. They research...

Students consider the importance of financial security after retirement, examine current problems with pension plans in the private sector, research different retirement options, and create a "How it Works" poster.

Students identify and interpret the value of money and ways to use it and save it, then they visually make predictions. They also identify and interpret how to find interest, banking, saving, borrowing, and spending. Students then write...

What would you save? To launch an examination of how the people of Afghanistan protected precious works of art from Soviet and Taliban invaders, participants consider what they would save if invasion was threatened. They then view a...