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Dollars and Sense: How to be Smart About Money
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Did you know the national student debt recently rose above the national credit card debt? Get students smart about money before it's too late with LifeBound's newest addition Dollars and Sense: How to Be Smart About Money. This book is mapped directly to the National Standards for Financial Literacy, established by the Jump$tart Coalition to improve the financial literacy of youth from kindergarten through college, to teach teens about what they need to know about money today and in the future. Dollars and Sense approaches the important topic of financial literacy in a colorful, creative, and fun way with many real stories, online activities, and opportunities to engage with peers and family over money dos and don'ts.
- Addressing common financial issues, like budgeting, balancing debt, and making investments.
- Introducing financial concepts from the perspective of real professionals.
- Characterizing common financial foul-ups.
- Engaging online and end-of-chapter activities.
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Table of Contents:
- Critical Thinking and Financial Skills?
- Your Relationship with Money
- Budgeting and Goal Setting for Success
- Components of Personal Money Management
- Balancing Credit and Debt
- Avoiding Financial Pitfalls
- Avoiding Debt and Staying out of Debt
- Investing for the Future
- Financial Planning in High School
- Financial Planning in College, Career, & Life
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Curriculum
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A curriculum is available with each book. Each unit corresponds with a chapter of the book and includes Reading Comprehension, Journal Activities, Chapter Objective, Rigor and Relevance Activities, and Exploratory Activities. Coaching and question-asking is fundamental to each section. The curricula also include handouts, unit quizzes and keys, and PowerPoint presentations.
Fundamentally, we believe that this content should be reviewed and tested so that students can build their test-taking abilities and also improve their memory techniques. Without the teeth of testing, students can often disregard the class as non-academic.
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Each Unit Contains:
- Goals and Objectives
- Reading and Comprehension Checkpoints
- Coaching Questions for Chapter Review
- Exploratory Activities
- Rigor and Relevance Activites
- Handouts
- Quizzes/Answer Keys
- PowerPoint for Class
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