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Unit 3: Unit Plan & Assessments
Unit assessment, why should i invest in the stock market.
Students will be able to
- Define investing and distinguish it from saving and trading
- Identify reasons for investing, including outpacing inflation
- Explain what the stock market is and why companies and investors choose to participate in the stock market
- Summarize long-term trends in the stock market
- Experience why it can be difficult to predict trends in the stock market
What is a Stock?
Students will be able to:
- Explain what stocks are and how they can make money from investing in them
- Identify ways to minimize risk when investing in stocks
- Read a stock quote and evaluate a stock’s performance over time
- Understand what a stock split is and how it impacts investors who own that stock
What is a Bond?
- Explain what a bond is and the pros and cons of investing in bonds
- Understand the various factors that can influence bond prices such as interest rates
- Identify the differences between an individual bond and a bond fund
- Read a bond fund fact sheet
Managing Risk
- Explain what risk is and its role in investing
- Analyze effective strategies to manage investment risk such as investing early, diversification, and dollar cost averaging
- Calculate the impact of using dollar cost averaging in hypothetical scenarios and by using the real historical performance of an index fund
Deep Dive Into Funds
- Identify the differences between mutual funds, index funds, exchange-traded funds, and target date funds
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of investing in mutual funds, index funds, exchange-traded funds, and target date funds
Start Investing
- Identify strategies recommended for a beginner investor and explain why these strategies may be beneficial
- Explore their own risk tolerance through a worksheet
- Experience making a variety of investment decisions through an interactive simulation
- Understand what a brokerage account is and how to open one
How to Invest for Retirement
- Understand what a 401(k) plan is and its advantages
- Explain the options available to them if an employer does not offer a 401(k) plan
- Conduct research to compare different types of retirement accounts, including Roth IRAs, traditional IRAs, 401(k)s, and pensions
Why Should I Invest?
- Analyze how compounding builds wealth over time
- Experience making a variety of investment decisions through an interactive simulation
What is the Stock Market?
- Experience why it can be difficult to predict trends in the stock market
Investing in Funds
- Understand what a fund is and how investing in one can create a more diversified investment portfolio
- Explain the difference between active investing and passive investing
- Arrange companies to create a diversified mutual fund
The Importance of Investing for Retirement
- Explain what retirement means through a financial lens
- Investigate how investing can be a powerful tool to meet their retirement goals
- Understand what Social Security is and why most Americans cannot rely on Social Security alone for retirement
- Explore factors that can impact how much they might need in retirement and their ability to meet their retirement savings goal
Modern Investing
- Discuss the function and growth of robo-advising, along with its relationship with human investment managers
- Explain the function, pros, and cons of micro-investing
- Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the investing landscape
- Compare modern investing tools
Smart Investing: Regulations & Returns
- Explain the role of financial regulations and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC and FINRA
- Understand what insider trading is, why it is illegal, and how it can harm investment markets
- Identify why it’s important to have access to full and accurate information about potential investments
- Explain how short and long-term capital gains tax may impact an investor’s decisions and rate of returns
- Understand the difference between nominal and real rate of return on investments
- ANALYZE: Dollar Cost Averaging in Action
- ANALYZE: Inequalities in Investing
- ANALYZE: Investing for Retirement
- ANALYZE: Understanding Inflation
- CALCULATE: Retirement Savings Goals
- COMPARE: Select a Brokerage Account
- COMPARE: Types of Investment Funds
- COMPARE: Types of Retirement Accounts
- FINE PRINT: Bond Mutual Fund Fact Sheet
- FINE PRINT: Stock Index Fund Fact Sheet
- FINE PRINT: Target Date Fund Fact Sheet
- INTERACTIVE: Beat the Market on Tech IPOs
- INTERACTIVE: Exploring Asset Classes
- INTERACTIVE: Invest with STAX!
- INTERACTIVE: The Power of Compounding
- INTERACTIVE: What's the S&P 500?
- MOVE: Let's Make a Mutual Fund
- MOVE: Organize A Stock Market Index
- PLAY: Guess How Much Is In The Jar
- PLAY: Insider Trading Shenanigans
- PLAY: Roll with the Market
- PROJECT: 5 Stocks on Your Birthday
- PROJECT: Build Your Portfolio
- PROJECT: Joining the Market
- READ: 10 Facts About Bonds
- READ: 25 Investing Basics
- READ: Retirement Basics
- ROLEPLAY: Sign Up for an IRA
- ROLEPLAY: Sign up for a 401(k)
FINCAP FRIDAYS
- Saying "OK" to the 401k
- S&P 500 Hits 5,000
- Bitcoin ETFs Debut
- Is the Stock Market Scary?
- Financially Confident Women
- Don't Use It, Don't Lose It!
- Tumultuous Twitter Takeover
- Stock Split Summer
- I Want I Bonds
- Closing the Gap
- Women in the C-Suite
- A Hazard to Your Wealth
- Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?
- From IPO to IP Whoa!
- Wanna Split An Apple?
- When the Mean is Kinda Nice
- Gaming Gone Global
- Bonds, Lame Bonds
- Strong Shoe Game
- Is I.P.O. the Way To Go?
- Playing With F.I.R.E.
- The Raging Bull
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
- For those who have one, what is the average amount of retirement savings 20-29 year olds have in their 401(k)s?
- How many countries have banned cryptocurrency? Can you name one?
- How many millionaires are there in the United States?
- How much would I need to save monthly to have $1 million when I retire?
- If you invested $1,000 in Netflix stock 10 years ago, what would it be worth now?
- Over a recent 20 year period, what percent of pros investing in large companies "beat the market?"
- What has been the average geometric return for the stock market over the past 50 years [1970-2020]?
- What major event caused the federal government to start regulating the stock market?
- What percent of 18-24 year old investors own individual stocks?
- What percent of 18-29 year olds are investing in the stock market?
- What percent of American families invest in the stock market?
- What percent of financial advisers are women?
- Would you rather have $1,000,000 or start with a penny and double your money every day for 30 days?
DATA CRUNCH + MATH
- DATA CRUNCH: How Does Your Asset Mix Impact Your Returns?
- DATA CRUNCH: How Successful Is the Average Investor?
- DATA CRUNCH: What Have Stock Market Returns Been Over the Past Ninety Years?
- DATA CRUNCH: What’s Been The Best Investment Since 1926?
- MATH: Active vs Passive Funds
- MATH: Exponential Growth in Investments
- MATH: Return on Investment
- MATH: Rule of 110 and Function Composition
- MATH: Rule(72)
- MATH: Standard Deviation in Stock and Bonds
- MATH: Using Regression to Analyze Stocks
- MATH: Yield to Maturity
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