
Unit
Risk & Protection
Every financial decision carries risk. Students explore insurance, coverage types, warranties, and identity theft protection.
Lessons
Managing risk happens long before a crisis, in the quiet choices you make every day. This lesson introduces the four core strategies people use to handle life's uncertainties and shows why unmanaged risk is what really wrecks a budget.
Insurance feels like alphabet soup until you realize every term exists to answer one question: who pays what, and when? This lesson decodes premiums, deductibles, claims, and coverage so students can read any policy without panic.
Insurance isn't one product. It's a toolkit for protecting everything you own and everything you might owe. This lesson explores renters, homeowners, and auto coverage, plus the liability protection that quietly shields your wallet across all of them.
Extended warranties aren't scams, but they're not always smart buys either. This lesson explores standard versus extended warranties and teaches students the math behind deciding when protection is worth the price.
Middle schoolers aren't too young to be targeted. They're prime targets for digital scammers hunting personal data. This lesson unpacks what PII is, how to spot financial scam red flags, and the security tools that keep thieves locked out.
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