MYP Individuals & Societies • Year 9 • Unit 2
Money Matters
Responsible financial choices have powerful impacts on our lives, our world and our own future.
Choice and consequences — financial decisions connect individual priorities to wider social and economic systems.
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Unit learning
Introduction: Tuning In
Money, Money, Money — Terminology
Your Money, Your Future
Money Trees
Taxes
Do We Value the Valuable?
Paragraph Writing Tips
Introduction: Tuning In
The unit begins by asking students how money shapes choices, opportunities and everyday life, guided by the statement of inquiry: responsible financial choices have powerful impacts on our lives, our world and our own future.
Money, Money, Money — Terminology
Students establish a shared vocabulary and trace how money, currencies and exchange developed.
Your Money, Your Future
Practical activities introduce saving, spending, budgeting and the consequences of financial decisions.
Money Trees
Students consider where income comes from, the limits on household resources and how priorities shape financial choices.
Taxes
This section explores why governments tax, the main classes of taxation and some of the stranger taxes used around the world.
Do We Value the Valuable?
A discussion-led inquiry into the difference between price and value, and whether markets always reward what matters most to individuals and societies.
Paragraph Writing Tips
The unit closes by helping students turn financial evidence and examples into clear, structured explanatory paragraphs.