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Insurance and Floods | Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!
Second- and third-grade students learn the value of insurance when a flood inundates their homes. Luckily these homes are made of milk cartons and the flood was caused by the teacher. Marni Pingel integrates this lesson on risk management into a social studies unit on homes, and includes a language arts component as student journalists write about the flood. Standard G, grades PK-4 More info at www.ecb.org
Sneeze Insurance | Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!
Julie Woletz teaches her Personal Finance students some of the concepts of risk management by selling them sneeze insurance policies. Students learn about premiums, deductibles, risk factors, and insurance fraud in the context of the sneeze policy, then connect their findings to real life. Standard G, grades 9-12 More info at www.ecb.org
