This unit comes with multiple lessons and everything you need to teach students about the concept of Financial Literacy Applications, including multiple assessment pieces. Our lesson plans were carefully created by teachers for teachers. They are detailed and include follow-up questions for small and whole-group discussions. Each lesson includes a quality video that teaches the individual concept. These videos are brief, which prevents students from becoming overwhelmed with knowledge, and they can be re-watched as many times to help reinforce student understanding. A short quiz is included which can be used as an assessment piece to check for understanding. Included is also a “mini challenge” activity for students to complete and submit. Throughout the unit, you will find worksheets for students to work on as well.  The lesson plans are setup to follow the desired workshop model; the concept is taught (mini lesson), the students have time for independent or small-group practice, and then everyone is brought back together for a whole group discussion, and to reinforce the learning. 

These lessons are very easy to follow, and their step-by-step directions make them a great option for any classroom or supply teacher. Everything you need to teach your unit is included here, the planning and prep is completely done for you.

Topics Include:

- Making & Describing Connections Between Simple Interest, Arithmetic Sequences, & Linear Growth

- Defining the terms principal and interest

- Calculating Compound Interest: Principal/Present Value

- Determining the Number of Compounding Periods

- Relationships Between Ordinary Simple Annuities, Geometric Series, & Exponential Growth

- Calculate present and future annuity given payment value, term, and compounding interest