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Students continue to work with compound interest in this lesson by applying the concept to various investment options and considering personal relevance. In particular, students consider how different compounding rates and interest rates combine to increase wealth. Students also consider how these concepts relate to risk and reward/return on investments. Topic covered in this lesson: Savings accounts, CD, stocks/mutual funds, Bondscompounding ratesrisk/return on investments

Following lessons about how to think about money, it's time for students to actually start interacting with the money-making process to help the previous conversations become more real. This lesson has them exploring entry level jobs. It is unlikely they will obtain their "dream job" either in high school or right afterwards, so getting comfortable with what an entry level job looks like and consists of will help them appreciate the need for more education (including certifications) and netwo

Here is another free product! This is a much-shortened version of the Introduction lesson (Financial Literacy - Lesson 1). There are no comments, guiding questions, notes to help understand the flow, etc. that the Introduction lesson has. But it DOES have some of the basic questions to see how I teach, what a lesson looks like, and how it might unfold. It's also a good set of "bellringers" to start the students thinking about how they might use money and how they think about money.