Learning, Earning and Investing Web Site

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Learning, Earning and Investing Web Site

• Your One-Stop Investor Education Web Site

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Key Features of the LEI Web Site

• 4 online lessons for grades 4 and 5
• Interactives
• Sample lessons
• Related lessons
• Financial calculators

• LEI Visuals on PowerPoint
• Glossary
• Invest Test
• Web links
• FAQs

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Online Lessons

• Lesson 1 Stock Prices
• Focuses on reading stock prices in the newspaper
  and online
• Stresses using whole number with decimals
• Lesson 2 Savings Accounts and U.S. Saving Bonds
• Introduces concept of interest through a math
  activity
• Identifies advantages and disadvantages of
  savings accounts and U.S. Savings Bonds

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Online Lessons

• Lesson 3 What Happens When a Bank Makes a Loan?
• Features a simulation illustrating how bank loans
  made to individuals can have an impact on others
  in the community
• Lesson 4 Why Do People Go to School?
• Introduces a chart relating education to income
• Focuses on the budgets of families whose members
  have different levels of education

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Interactives

• Compound Interest Calculator
• Illustrates graphically the dramatic effect that
  compounding can have on investments over time
• Word Search
• Features a word search activity to introduce key
  financial terms
• Chessboard of Financial Life
• Illustrates the power of compounding interest

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Interactives

• Reading the Financial Pages
• Focuses on several components presented on the
  financial pages of the newspaper
• NCEEs Historical Stock Market Simulation
• Features a simulation in which students invest
  10,000 using the Callan Periodic Table of
  Investment Returns

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Sample Lessons

• 2 sample high school lessons
• 2 sample middle school lessons
• Related NCEE print and online lessons

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Current Information

• Links to other investment Web sites
• Links to stock market simulations offered by
  state Councils on Economic Education
• The latest numbers from the Dow, NASDAQ, S P
  500, and 10-year bond indexes

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And Much More

• Glossary
• Presents easy-to-find definitions of financial
  and economic terms
• LEI Visuals
• Visuals from books are available as PowerPoint
  slides and PDF files
• Invest Test
• Have your students take a quiz to measure their
  investment I.Q.