Financial Investing Standards and Resources
Introduction to Financial Investing
Should I buy or should I sell? The Council for Economic Education states that students should be able to understand and calculate real and after-tax rates of return on investments. They should understand how diversification reduces risk and how financial markets react to changes in market conditions. Help students navigate through the waves in the risky business of financial investing!
Should I buy or should I sell? The Council for Economic Education states that students should be able to understand and calculate real and after-tax rates of return on investments. They should understand how diversification reduces risk and how financial markets react to changes in market conditions. Help students navigate through the waves in the risky business of financial investing!
Use the news
Here are some activities we created that Use the News to engage students in inquiry-based tasks that use newspaper articles. They include standards alignments and the latest lessons feature student guides.

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Federal reserve resources
Here is a Florida Financial Literacy standards alignment with resources from the Federal Reserve.

financial_literacy_investing_federal_reserve_scope_and_sequence.docx |
financial freedom
Florida teachers, order free copies of Financial Freedom for your students. For investing, Chapter 10 has the closest alignment to standards.
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Download an instructional guide for the chapter, which include teacher instructions and alignment to Financial Literacy and ELA standards.
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Better money habits resources for inquiry
Better Money Habits has an excellent resource page on investing for retirement that you can use with students for a inquiry-based approach.
Practical money skills calculators
Practical Money Skills has some calculators to use:
next generation personal finance (NGPF)
NGPF has two excellent units you can use for the Investing Standard:Although they are aligned to JumpStart standards, you can use our alignment guide below to find the corresponding Florida standards.