Investing Basics

Tools

1 ready to use.

Market Time Machine

Travel to any year from 1928 and ride real returns forward with your mix of stocks, bonds, cash and gold. See what time, inflation, fees and a bad start year really do. Educational only, not advice.

Careers and Finance Grades 9-12 Simulator

Word Wall

6 words in English and Spanish: stock, bond, index fund, diversification, risk, retirement account. Print them as wall cards, mini cards or a student glossary.

Print the words

Lesson plans

One class period each, built around a tool. Print them, change them, share them.

• Market Time Machine50 minutes · I can explain how risk, diversification, time, inflation and fees changed investment results in the past, and why the past is not a forecast.