9COM – Year 9 Commerce – 1 Semester

This course provides an introduction to Commerce. It covers the following:

• How the share market works and ways of investing your money
• Making and using a simple budget
• Different ways of spending and investing your money
• Buying a used car - what are the costs?
• What are your rights when things go wrong?

Students will create their own class currency which will be used to pay them for coming to class and as a bonus for good class work. During the course, students can use this class currency to buy and sell gold, oil and shares in a virtual marketplace using real world prices. At the end of the course, they can spend their profits on various items during a class auction.