Financial+Security

Project Title: Living within your means and Financial Security

Grade Level: 6th

Name: Sabrina Davenport

Project Idea: Scenario: to teach students to create a plan for their future financial security. Students will be asked to find a job, keep a checkbook, save for retirement, invest in the stock market and budget money.

Driving Question: How can I create a plan to be financially secure when I grow up?

Content: //Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division//, simple interest, percents, algera (X number of stocks = 500.00 (the amount willing to invest)) budget. Italics – review skills.

Major Student Products: Portfolio containing: Checkbook – paper and digital(spreadsheet) Record of stocks with calculations of cost per share $$, record of jobs. How much tax did they pay? How much did they earn? Reflection on what went well and what could be changed. Students will present their results and reflections to the class.