Lesson
Risk Management
Summary
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.
Bellringer: Whose $1,100 Problem?
- Pose the shattered-phone scenario and give students 1–2 minutes to react.
- Steer toward the sting of being unprepared, then the realization that risk is managed before a crisis.
Instruction
- Define risk and its cost across money, health, time, and property.
- Walk through Avoid, Reduce, Retain, Transfer using the snowy-drive example.
- Land on insurance as the most common transfer of risk.
Discussion: Avoid, Reduce, Retain, or Transfer?
- Present each scenario and have students vote on a strategy.
- Push on when retaining beats transferring — small, coverable losses.
Activity: Insurance & Risk Reading
- Pair students to read the Insurance and Risk article.
- Complete the Reading Companion worksheet.
- If time allows, debate: when is transferring risk actually worth the cost?
Wrap-Up & Assessment
- What are the four ways to manage risk?
- When does it make sense to retain risk instead of transferring it?
| Est. Time | Activity | Description |
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| 7 min | Bellringer: Whose $1,100 Problem? |
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| 10 min | Instruction |
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| 10 min | Discussion: Avoid, Reduce, Retain, or Transfer? |
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| 13 min | Activity: Insurance & Risk Reading |
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| 5 min | Wrap-Up & Assessment |
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Lesson Prep
Insurance and Risk
Students learn how insurance works across auto, home, health, and life.
Insurance and Risk: Reading Companion
Students will read an article on insurance and risk, define key vocabulary, categorize real-world scenarios into the four risk-management strategies, and reflect on when retaining risk beats insuring it.
Class Presentation
Includes a 15-slide deck with teacher notes. Present from Banzai, download a PDF, or copy it to Google Slides.
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- Teacher NotesSlide-by-slide guidance, printable as one handout
Unit 8: Risk & Protection
Risk Management
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 Lingo & Mechanics
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.
Types of Insurance
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.
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