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Competency 2.00 Understand economic challenges of individuals and families. Objective 2.02 Understand threats to financial security. Personal Finance. 2.02A “Get Rich Quick” Wouldn’t it be nice if we could “GET RICH QUICK!” Scan the questions on your handout.
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Competency 2.00 Understand economic challenges of individuals and families. Objective 2.02 Understand threats to financial security. Personal Finance
2.02A “Get Rich Quick” • Wouldn’t it be nice if we could “GET RICH QUICK!” • Scan the questions on your handout. • We will answer the questions directly after we read aloud “Easy Money” pages 95-105 in Chad Foster’s Financial Literacy for Teens. Easy Money
What consumer behaviors can threaten a person’s financial security and lead to financial losses? • What scams and schemes can lead to financial losses? • How can a consumer communicate caution and report incidents of fraud? Essential Questions
Use for reference during this objective. Key Terms
Scams and schemes could not occur without cooperation from their victims. In the space provided, develop your own graphic organizer to represent the content. Consumer Behaviors Lead to Losses Failure to Protect Failure to Plan Consumer Behaviors Failure to Communicate Failure to be Informed
Many types of scams and schemes can threaten financial security, and new scams are being invented each day. Develop your own graphic organizer to represent the content. Beware of Scams and Schemes Scams & Schemes
Conduct research on the internet to find an example of one of the types of scams and schemes. Write an original newsflash including all the parts of a news story following the directions on the handout. Newsflash: Example of a Scam or Scheme
Anyone know the odds that any person who purchases a lottery ticket will be a winner? Conduct research on the internet to find a lottery. Find odds as either “percentage of chance to win” or “1 chance in . . .” Lottery Winner Odds
What consumer behaviors can threaten a person’s financial security and lead to financial losses? • What scams and schemes can lead to financial losses? • How can a consumer communicate caution and report incidents of fraud? Essential Questions
Brainstorm examples of communication media that can be used to alert family and friends. Follow the directions on the handout to complete Part One. Your partner with whom you communicated will complete Part Two. Beware! Tell, Tele, Text or Email It
What consumer behaviors can threaten a person’s financial security and lead to financial losses? • What scams and schemes can lead to financial losses? • How can a consumer communicate caution and report incidents of fraud? Essential Questions
Where to report fraudulent scams and schemes? Develop your own graphic organizer to represent the contents. Draw a Tree Chart – Write the details as the branches. Reporting Scams and Schemes
Complete individually. (On the back of the Key Terms) • Summarize what you have learned by completing the following sentence in your notebook: • Don’t expect something for nothing because . . . . • Complete Study Guide 2.02 Key Terms Puzzle – Scams and Schemes
Have each student design a poster on paper or poster board. Each poster should depict a scam/scheme in combination with one or more consumer behaviors that lead to financial loss. Poster