Getting Started:

Manitoba English Language Arts Curriculum Expectations:

• 1.2.1 Develop Understanding
  • Recognize and articulate the value of connecting prior and new knowledge and experiences to shape and extend understanding.
• 1.2.3 Combine Ideas
  • Identify or invent personally meaningful ways of organizing ideas and information to clarify and extend understanding.
• 1.2.4 Extend Understanding
  • Ask specific and focused questions for elaboration and clarification; engage in dialogue about experiences and understanding.
• 2.1.2 Comprehension Strategies
  • Use comprehension strategies [including reflecting on and assessing meaning, skimming, scanning, close reading, and identifying and relating in own words the main and supporting ideas] appropriate to the type of text and purpose.
• 3.1.1 Use Personal Knowledge
  • Examine personal knowledge of and experiences related to a topic to determine information needs.
• 3.1.3 Contribute to Group Inquiry
  • Contribute ideas, knowledge, and questions to help establish group inquiry or research focuses and purposes.
• 3.1.4 Create and Follow a Plan
  • Prepare and use a plan to access information and ideas from a variety of sources [such as teachers, peers, print and non-print materials, electronic sources….].
• 4.2.2 Revise Content
  • Revise to create effective sentences that convey content clearly and generate reader interest.
• 4.4.2 Effective Oral Communication
  • Deliver short oral presentations and reports using verbal and non-verbal cues [such as diction, pacing, presence, facial expression, gestures…] to focus audience attention; project emotion appropriate to the subject and point of view.
• 5.2.2 Work in Groups
  • Present group conclusions or findings to classmates.

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.