Financial Literacy All About Your Credit Score

Students will learn all about credit scores and credit reports in this financial literacy unit including a culminating activity to help students understand how things like a missed payment can lower their credit score and cost them more money due to higher interest rates in the long run. This download contains both a printable, as well as a Google Drive™ compatible, format.

Students will work through a WebQuest using the printable IntelliNotes™ format or the digital version in Google Drive. The unit ends with the student completing a practical activity exploring how responsible or irresponsible financial actions can affect their credit scores and cost them money in higher interest rates and insurance rates.

Topics Covered:

• Understanding what the FICO score is
• Understanding the credit report and how to correct errors
• Understanding how the FICO is calculated
• Understanding how to build good credit
• Understanding how to maintain good credit
• Understanding how to improve the credit score
• Understand how your credit score can affect your life.

This unit contains:

• Detailed teacher guides for the printable and digital activities
• Printable IntelliNotes™ student pages
• Google Slides™ format for student instructional pages and WebQuest links
• Answer keys

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