Build your foundations
Explore saving, investing, businesses, and risk. Practice researching a company and explaining a choice with evidence.
Prepare to: explain risk, distinguish saving from investing, and give a reason for a decision.
Money choices → Stock Market Game
Financial Literacy & Investing
Build financial understanding, investigate businesses, and explain investment decisions.
One project. Grow your financial thinking.
After your iCivics project concludes, begin a new question: How can we use evidence to make thoughtful money and investment choices?
Build a foundation, apply it in the Stock Market Game, and explain what you learn. The activities below are connected parts of this one project.
Apply your thinking in SMG
Investigate businesses and discuss decisions for a simulated portfolio. Keep learning financial concepts as you need them.
Practice: bring your own research, compare ideas with teammates, and record why you made each choice.
Explain and reflect
Use your research and portfolio decisions to develop evidence-based writing. Review what happened and what you would do differently.
Show your learning: explain how evidence influenced your thinking, not just whether an investment gained value.
Use one experience to strengthen the next.
Expert questions through Invest It Forward, writing through InvestWrite, and portfolio reflection will connect to the same research and decisions. They are supporting experiences within this project.
Your missions will explain which resources to use, what to complete, and how each checkpoint connects to your learning.
Share the learning you already built.
Select work from iCivics and Financial Literacy & Investing. Explain an idea you improved, evidence you used, and something you would try differently. Your showcase brings both projects together.
Apply your thinking in SMG.
Investigate businesses, consider risk, make team decisions, and review a simulated investment portfolio. Explain the evidence behind your choices.
Grade-specific preparation and pacing will be developed from the existing Google Classroom materials. The January foundations sequence shown for Grade 4 is not yet an assigned sequence for Grades 5–6.
This is a project preview. Existing Google Classroom materials will be reviewed before missions are built. Official SMG dates, assigned links, checkpoints, and submission directions will be confirmed before launch.