Financial Markets

Grade Levels: 5-12, College

Program Duration: 45 minutes

This classroom lesson, based on the largest of the Museum’s permanent exhibits, will help students understand the trade-off between risk and reward in investing; identify and define the
three major financial asset classes; explain
what factors cause financial market fluctuations
and crises; explain why governments and
companies have issued bonds historically and
today; and explore information technology in the
field of finance.

Price: $100 per 25 students

Related Exhibits: The Financial Markets, Credit Crisis

Download: Financial Markets Curriculum (PDF, 45.36 K)