Course+Syllabus

= Course Syllabus= =Money - 12th Grade Economics=

__Course Overview:__ “Money” will blend Mathematics, Social Studies, Business Education, Technology, Language Arts, and Family and Consumer Science skills to learn life-long, practical lessons in finance by managing a $10,000 class stock portfolio. A community partnership is essential to the course and student learning. The “Money” elective gives students at Penn Wood High School a chance to invest real money into the real stock market and create a real investment portfolio. There are numerous online and simulated games on the stock market that teachers have used in the past to teach economics type courses. We are offering a program that is not a simulation but a real-life experience. The course will teach and reinforce essential skills and concepts such as: Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Cooperation, Collaboration and Communication, and Independent and group research. Students who will participate in the course will learn more than investing in the stock market. Students will learn to work together with classmates to organize materials, negotiate through decisions, and cooperate to achieve success. The course will integrate technology into the course by utilizing Classroom for the Future (CFF) equipment and resources. Students will acquire advanced levels knowledge of technology.

All money used in the course will be privately donated with the specific understanding of the course and its uses within the school. All money raised and earned through investments will be divided equally among the students in the class who exhibit an outstanding work ethic and particpation and a non-profit community orgainiztion at the end of the school year.



__ConceptsUnits:__

__ Assessments/Benchmarks: __