Can teens save and invest? Of course they can! In this lesson, students will learn how to take their idle money to make more money.

Scope and Sequence
Understanding savings
Comparing and contrasting different ways to save
Creating a money tracker plan
Understanding of investing 101
Comparing and contrasting different ways to invest



Standards
#1: Integrate 21st century skills into core academic subject standards. Each subject area should be treated differently, with an eye for thoughtful and authentic ways to incorporate skills like critical thinking, problem solving, communication, information literacy and technology literacy into the standard.

#2: Integrate 21st century themes into core subject area standards, where appropriate. Global awareness, financial literacy, health literacy and civic literacy are all requirements in the 21st century and should be intentionally integrated into state standards wherever possible.

Objectives
Students will be able to:
Define savings and investing
Determine the variety of ways to save and invest
Differentiated Instruction
Inquiry-based learning
Self-directed learning
Journal writing

Materials
Lesson
Workbook