Travis R. Martin, CPA, MBA

Hands-on project designed for Computer Applications and Media Literacy classes. Students test Pandora’s music recommendations using project based learning.

In this post, I thought I would offer a few of the PowerPoint slides I use to lead classroom discussions on stocks, as well as a few of the worksheets I use

This lesson guides students through the basics of checking and savings accounts.

Lesson covering the concepts of simple interest, compound growth, and the Rule of 72. It revolves around a PowerPoint discussion that provides the basics, as well as some eye-opening examples of how the concepts can be applied in real life.

This budgeting lesson consists of a PowerPoint discussion, two activities, and a budgeting project – suitable for 9-12 grades.

In this activity, the students research and recommend hotels based on a set of criteria I give them. The students then pitch their hotel ideas using a PowerPoint presentation. From these presentations, I pick my hotel room. The winning student (or group), gets a “mystery gift bag” from the hotel, which consists of everything I can take from the room and lobby without going to jail.

We have all been there at some point. You receive a bill in the mail that just isn’t right. Or maybe you purchased a product and were less than satisfied. Knowing how to handle these situations is part of being a smart consumer. In this activity, students will learn the process for filing a complaint.

Flip to the front of nearly any high school Economics textbook and you are sure to find a discussion of Economic Systems and Economic Goals.

When my classes discuss these topics (see PowerPoint notes), I like to incorporate a few simple activities.

In this activity, students get hands-on with target markets by creating a fictional person that is representative of a given target market.