Students will comprehend saving and investing, understand the concept of risk versus reward, and gain knowledge about various investment types and vocabulary.

Students will play the interactive game called Stax and see if they can beat the market in a 20-year period. Reflection questions will be answered after gameplay.

This is a great resource to use with Financial Literacy students. It is a brief overview of Investing to help you get started on your unit in Investing.

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This is a comprehensive Personal Finance text which includes a wide range of pedagogical aids to keep students engaged and instructors on track. This book is arranged by learning objectives. The headings, summaries, reviews, and problems all link together via the learning objectives. This helps instructors to teach what they want, and to assign the problems that correspond to the learning objectives covered in class.Personal Finance includes personal finance planning problems with links to solutions, and personal application exercises, with links to their associated worksheet(s) or spreadsheet(s). In addition, the text boasts a large number of links to videos, podcasts, experts’ tips or blogs, and magazine articles to illustrate the practical applications for concepts covered in the text.

Students play the stockmarketgame.org in teams. After learning the basics, students research different companies and each team spends $100k on stocks.