FOCUS QUESTIONS FOR THIS SECTION
How is investing beneficial?
How does a financial decision affect short-term and long-term investments?
Section 1: Fundamentals of Investing
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In these lessons, students define investing and learn why investing is a beneficial practice. They learn to classify various investment opportunities and begin developing their own point of view of different life factors that can influence the value of various investment options such as stocks.
Investing is the expending of resources such as time, money, or talent, with the goal of achieving a beneficial outcome in the future.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Define investing and explain why it is beneficial to invest.
Identify different entities of investing. Identify stocks, bonds, mutual funds as investments.
LESSON OBJECTIVE
Classify investments and non-investments.
Explain what an investment is.
Given examples, justify why an option is an investment or a non-investment.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Identify and use various sources of investment information, including prospectuses, online resources, and financial publications.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Analyze how economic and business factors affect the market value of a stock.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Design and create a newspaper where the content could influence changes in investment values.