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Marketplaces - High School Investing Basics

Investment Lesson Plans for High School Students

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Marketplaces sets students up for long-term wealth creation and financial stability by equipping them with an understanding of how the market works and the confidence to participate in it.

Through an engaging, gamified learning experience, students blend economic concepts with investing topics to learn how the government, corporations, and individuals come together to participate in the financial marketplace.

  • Stock exchanges
  • Global markets
  • Risk and return
  • Long-term investing
  • Asset allocation
  • Venture capitalism
  • Inflation and deflation

EVERFI’s digital resources are here to help you teach real-world, financial literacy skills in any type of learning environment.

Marketplaces Snapshot

  • Target Students

    High School

  • Standards

    Jump$tart’s National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education, Council of Economic Education’s National Standards for Financial Literacy, National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework, Council of Economic Education's Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

  • Time

     5 Lessons / 20 Minutes Each / 1.5 Hours Total

Lesson Plan

Marketplaces

This lesson introduces marketplaces by defining what a financial market is and how students’ lives are impacted by the global financial market.

The Economy

This lesson explores the impact the economy has on the world and everyone’s daily lives. Students apply their learning by predicting how individuals and businesses will behave in different economic climates.

Startup to IPO

Students explore financing options for growing companies. Topics include bootstrapping, debt financing, angel investing, and venture capital.

Keys to Investing

This lesson introduces different types of financial assets and how to use asset allocation and diversification to balance risk and reward.

Investment Game

Students apply what they’ve learned from previous modules by making realistic financial decisions at different stages of their life.

Bring Marketplaces into Your Classroom, School and District

Real World Learning

Storytelling and simulation connect seemingly intangible skills to real-life contexts.

Relevant & Engaging

Students will reflect on the concepts they learned and apply them to their lives.

Empowering

Spark a sense of autonomy - students control and make smart choices about their investments.

Join the 60,000+ teachers who used EVERFI's award-winning lessons this past school year!

Students were so interested in stocks and had a bunch of questions that I didn't have answers to. Once we went through some of the lessons inside Marketplaces, their questions were answered. It was very thought out and easy to follow.

Henderika T.
High School CTE Teacher, Arizona

Teaching students about generational wealth and financial literacy is essential. I have used EVERFI's resources for years. Having students learn about investment through Marketplaces in a non-intimidating, fun, and practical manner allowed them to embrace the concept.

Yolette M.
High School Teacher, Florida

I feel like Marketplaces is a good tool to use for learning about investments. It engages students in more gamification so that they can learn by applying and doing, instead of in theory.

Valerie C.
High School Teacher, Arizona

Frequently Asked Questions

EVERFI has built a network of partners and sponsors who help fund Marketplaces for your school or district. Through multi-year commitments, EVERFI partners give teachers and administrators the assurance that programming can be launched at scale and even written into the curriculum.

Marketplaces' lessons are aligned to Jump$tart’s National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education, Council of Economic Education’s National Standards for Financial Literacy, National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework, and more. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation.

EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students. Thanks to partners, we provide our digital platform, training, and support at no cost.

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