A great way to introduce student loan interest to middle schoolers, all while reinforcing basic math skills! This lesson starts with a video showing a major pitfall of student loans, slides into student "votes" to gain interest, distinguishes between compound and simple interest, and then dives in to working with simple interest. These slides are created for a Smart Board (pen) and allow opportunities to use the Pear Deck extension for Slides. Students also practice using Google Sheets as a c