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Marketplaces - Investing Basics

Investment Lesson Plans for High School Students

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Financial Markets
  • Macroeconomics
  • Company Financing
  • Personal Investing

OVERVIEW

Marketplaces is a cutting-edge digital learning experience to equip students with an understanding of how the market works and the confidence to participate in it. Through an engaging, gamified learning experience, students blend economic concepts with investing topics to learn how the government, corporations, and individuals come together to participate in the financial marketplace.

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KEY DETAILS

GRADE LEVEL:High School
BEST FIT:Economics, Social Science, CTE
NUMBER OF LESSONS:5
TIME PER LESSON / TOTAL DURATION:20 Minutes / 1.5 Hours
STANDARDS:Jump$tart’s National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education, Council of Economic Education’s National Standards for Financial Literacy, National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework, Council of Economic Education's Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

Preview the Lessons

Lesson 1

Marketplaces

Students learn what a financial market is and how their own lives are impacted by the global financial market. They also explore the history of the markets and how stock exchanges have transformed over time. Acting as brokers, students attempt to predict how various industries are impacted by current events.

Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5

Hear Why Teachers Love This Course

Great platform for students to become interested in and seeing how investing works in their lives.”

Teacher

District ROE 13

Carlyle, IL

Although more advanced, students have no exposure to this topic in the curriculum and likely not at home either. Very meaningful!

High School Teacher

Georgia

Students love it!

High School Teacher

Gaston County Schools District

North Carolia

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