Every year, thousands of students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. By understanding how scholarship scams work, students can better arm themselves against scholarship scam artists. For this lesson, students will create a top 10 list of scholarship scams that will be presented as a school public service announcement, at parent open house, or at a CTSO meeting. This lesson contains a financial aid component.

Concepts

financial aid, scholarships

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Additional Tags

21st century skills, alex, alabama learning exchange, avoiding scholarship scams, ctso, scholarship scams

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)