by StudentSavvy
5th - 9th Grade
✨Free Curriculum Maps✨ | Financial Literacy: Saving, Investing & Risk Unit
Planning your Unit 3 financial literacy lessons just got easier. These free curriculum maps and teacher planning tools are designed to help you stay organized while teaching saving, investing, risk, diversification, and financial protection.
Perfect for upper elementary and middle school classrooms, this free resource provides a ready-to-use pacing guide, binder setup, and lesson planning framework so you can focus on instruction—not prep.
What’s Included Teacher Binder + Spine Covers
Printable binder pages to organize your Unit 3: Saving, Investing & Risk materials in one place.
4-Week Activity Calendar
A clear pacing guide that breaks the unit into:
- Reading passages
- Doodle-style interactive notebook pages
- Gamified simulations and decision-making activities
- Review and assessment
Curriculum Maps for 4 Core Unit 3 Resources
Reading Passages
Informational texts focused on:
- Financial portfolios
- Saving vs. investing
- Risk, reward, and diversification
- Fraud and identity theft prevention
Doodle Style Interactive Notebook
17 doodle-style pages paired with short readings that reinforce:
- How money grows
- Risk and diversification
- Smart financial decision-making
- Financial protection and fraud awareness
STEM / PBL Financial Portfolio Simulation
A roll-the-dice Google Slides project where students:
- Build a starting financial portfolio
- Experience market changes over multiple years
- Calculate percent increases and decreases
- Analyze risk, diversification, and long-term growth
Study Guide & Exam
Editable Word documents that include:
- A complete study guide covering all Unit 3 concepts
- A 35-question assessment (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, long response)
- Teacher answer key
Why Teachers Love It
- Provides a clear roadmap for teaching saving, investing, and risk step-by-step
- Saves prep time with ready-made pacing guides and curriculum maps
- Fits perfectly into a teacher binder for easy planning and reference
- Supports financial literacy standards with structured, age-appropriate lessons
Suggested Use
- Print and add to your teacher binder for Unit 3 organization
- Use the 4-week activity calendar to plan daily lessons
- Follow the curriculum maps to align readings, notebooks, simulations, and assessments
✨ This free teacher planning resource gives you a complete roadmap for Unit 3: Saving, Investing & Risk, making it easy to deliver engaging, standards-based financial literacy lessons your students will understand and remember.
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