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Are your students equipped to make life-altering decisions about:

• Higher education
• Healthy lifestyles
• Credit
• Insurance

These are tough choices - even for adults. So, how do you make sure your high school students have the practical knowledge and critical life skills to tackle these challenging choices?

Risky Business shows your young students how to make wise decisions. With this complete DVD teaching resource, you'll have a complete package that teaches the key skills your students need to succeed in life.

Risky Business contains:

• Four (4) 20-minute video segments
• Twelve (12) lesson plans and activities -- 3 for each video
• Videos are available in both English and Spanish

You'll have a diverse program that contains a powerful mix of video and in-class activities. With the timeless principles of Risky Business, your students will leave your classroom and enter their adult years with the life skills to be healthy, wealthy and secure.

Four Areas of Knowledge Growth for Teenagers

Your students are under tremendous pressure to make choices about continuing their education, living healthy, choosing from a barrage of credit offers, and understanding insurance options.

Each video segment, complemented by 3 lesson plans and activities each, focuses on the 4 key areas of "life management" that every teenager needs to know, both today and in the future

1. Higher Education

This video segment, titled Invest in Yourself: Get a Good Education , explores why your students should stay in school; how to save for college; and how they can prepare for a lifetime of learning.

2. Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Take Care of Yourself: Sound Health Decisions Make You Healthier and Wealthier details how healthy lifestyle choices today translate into long-term wealth in the future.

Using and Managing Credit

Your students are about to be bombarded with credit offers for:

• School loans
• Personal loans
• Credit cards, and more

With Using Credit Wisely: What You Don't Know About Credit Can Hurt You your students discover how to distinguish between credit "friends" and "foes."

Insurance

Insurance is a tricky - and complex - subject; even adults give scant attention to this crucial topic. That's why Expect the Unexpected: Managing Risk and Insuring Your Future gives your students no-nonsense details on how to choose insurance and avoid risky behaviors.

Reinforcement Activities for the Videos

After watching each 20 minute video segment, choose from 3 lesson plans that reinforce and extend the concepts your students just learned. These hands-on, team-building activities give your students an applied understanding of the video materials, and keep them actively engaged in your classroom.

Where to Use Risky Business

Risky Business is ideal as a Capstone life skills course for your high school students. Whether you use it in mainstream classrooms, for talented and gifted students, or as an after-school program, Risky Business gives your students the sound life skills to make wise choices. They'll leave your class with the knowledge to manage risks; make wise choices; and live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

Who Should Use Risky Business

Risky Business is ideal for:

• Librarians
• After-school coordinators
• Talented and Gifted students
• Independent Study
• Community Centers
• Social Studies
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Vocational Technical Education
• Business Educators

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