MoneyManagement


 * Money Management[[image:ncobb-ibt/crest_reflection.jpg width="121" height="193" align="right"]] **

The purpose of this unit is to develop effective money management strategies and understand the role and functions of financial institutions.


 * Assignments **

Credit for Beginners []
 * Please use Google Chrome and not Internet Explorer **
 * Activity 1 **
 * The buzzle link on Worksheet 1 is not working, but I would like you to use the links on the page or search the web to answer questions 1-4 on **Worksheet 1** and place your responses in a MS Word document.
 * Complete the Assessment at the bottom of the page and screenshot your score into the same MS Word document.

My Credit Rating: Why Should I Care? Read and complete the activities on this page. Place it in the same Workd document as Credit for Beginners.

Credit Cred This website will show you how credit can be a powerful tool in your financial toolbox if you understand how to use it wisely. This mini course, will outline about different types of credit and the costs associated with using credit.
 * Complete the mini course and using MS Word, "reflect" in the 10 different types of credit discussed. **

Banking and Investments **Page 1** - Come back to this to answer the Essential Questions
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activity 2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 2 - **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write a paragraph [3 sentences] summarizing Why Should You Invest? Write at least 1 sentence discribing each one of the nine "pitfalls."
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write two sentences to summarize each subsection under How Should I Invest? [ie What is investing, First, douse your debt, etc.]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write at least one sentence to summarize each investment instrument under What Should I Invest In?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Complete the Self-Assessment
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 3 - **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Skip the Investor Risk and Return link
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read the Financial Concepts: The Risk/Return Tradeoff
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write 3 sentences summarizing this concept
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take the risk profile quiz and record your risk level
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Answer the 3 questions under Question for Thought: Risk Taker
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Under How Does Compound Interest Work? and Time Value of Money watch the video and write 2 sentences to explain your understanding of compound interest and explain the Rule of 72
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take the Self-Assessment [you don't need to record your answers]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 4 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read the History of the Stock Market and write how you feel about Wall Street after reading the article.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write 3 sentences explaining the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take the Self-Assessment [you don't need to record your answers]


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 5 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Five Stages of Investing **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write two sentences each, to explain each of the 5 Stages fo Saving and Investing [10 sentences total]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take the **mini-quiz** and screenshot your results to place in a MS Word document. [Take it until you get at least 80%]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Complete the Assessment Activity [record answers in MS Word]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**DO NOT** do the Extention Activity

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use at least two sentences to summarize each step [no less than 26 sentences].
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">13 Steps to Investing Foolishly **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Page 6** - Skip

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Complete the crossword puzzle and screenshot the results.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 7 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the right-hand side of the page, in the grey box, click on **How to Look Up a Stock Video** and record the steps to find a stock.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 8 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Page 1** - Watch the **Module Minute** then click on click here under Assignment and complete one of the 2 options. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Page 2** - Watch the **Banking Vocabulary** video to solve the crossword puzzle.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activitiy 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Banking Basics **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read the conversation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read **Banking Barter Conversation**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Watch the movie **How Banks Make Money**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take the **Self-Assessment** - record your answers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Answer Question for Thought: Currency and the Modern Economy

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Watch the **A History of U. S. Banking and the Federal Reserve** video. Write a summarizing paragraph and answer the questions in the Self-Assessment. No need to record your answers, but check to make sure you were correct.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 4 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write 3 sentences to explain Depository Institutions and 3 more sentences to explain Non-Depository Institutions. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Complete the Self- Assessment and screenshot the results.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 5 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Skip
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 6 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Complete the Review and screenshot your results.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 7 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use the links on this page to create a timeline. You may use Powerpoint, Thinglink.com, Powtoon.com or any other program that will allow you to record the events. Make sure your include at least 5 events from each century. [5 for the 1700's, 5 for the 1800's, etc.]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page 8 **