Getting Started:

British Columbia English Language Arts Curriculum:

• A1 – use speaking and listening to interact with others
• A7 – demonstrate enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage
• A9 – use speaking and listening to improve and extend thinking, by
  • acquiring new ideas
  • analysing and evaluating ideas
  • developing explanations
  • summarizing and synthesizing
• B2 – read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade appropriate information texts
• C2 – write a variety of effective informational writing for a range of purposes and audiences that communicates ideas to inform

Links to the New Learning Standards:

• Comprehend and connect
• Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability.
• Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking inform ideas to inform

Learning Goals:

• Students will discover ways to invest money and understand the risks and rewards of each kind of investment.

Readiness:

• Students need to understand the terms: acronyms, investments.

Materials Needed:

• Computers

Learning Activity:

Introduction to Lesson:

• Ask the class if they have heard the term “Money doesn’t grow on trees.”
• Do they know where a person can put money to make it grow?
• Do they have any money saved? What kind of investment is it?
• Explain that today they will be researching different kinds of investments that people can buy to make their money grow.

Action:

• Divide the class into 6 groups.
• Each group will be researching a financial investment.
• Assign one kind of investment to each group—TFSA, GIC, RRSP, RESP, Bank Saving Account or Stock Market.
• They are to use the internet to research and report back to the class:
  • what the acronym represents,
  • where to buy this kind of investment, and
  • what the advantages and disadvantages are of putting money in this kind of investment.

Consolidation of Learning:

• The groups share their findings with the class, discussing what was learned about each kind of investment.

Evaluating Success:

Success Criteria:

• For homework, the students are to pretend they have $100 to invest. They are to use the knowledge they learned today and write a paragraph explaining why they chose this way to invest the money.

Confirming Activity:

• Ask the students to share with their family, what they have learned about investing.