Resources for High School Educators

Financial Education
Scroll down this site to find a variety of resources that help build your students’ financial iQs.

Me, Myself, My Money
Me, Myself, My Money is a series of lessons for high school and college students that introduce, educate and increase awareness about the basic financial concepts necessary for responsible personal financial management.

U.S. Mint Pocket Change
The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change website is all about coins! Taking a close look at coins can help a youngster begin to grow into a fiscally responsible adult. Check out some of this site's fun activities and lesson plans that promote basic economic understanding.

Hands on Banking
The Hands On Banking program teaches your students about basic money tools and skills. The downloadable Instructor Guides provide everything you need to guide your students through real-life scenarios, group discussions, and valuable activities.

Practical Money Skills
To help students of all ages learn the essentials of personal finance, Visa® has partnered with leading consumer advocates, educator, and financial institutions to create the Practical Money Skills program.

Money Smart
The FDIC’s Money Smart for Young Adults curriculum helps youth ages 12-20 learn the basics of handling their money and finances, including how to create positive relationships with financial institutions. The program consists of eight instructor-led modules. Each module includes a fully scripted instructor guide, participant guide, and overhead slides. The materials also include an optional computer-based scenario that allows students to complete realistic exercises based on each module. The curriculum is distributed on CD and is free.

Money Skill®
MoneySKILL is a free online reality-based personal finance course for young adults developed by the American Financial Services Association Education Foundation. The curriculum covers the content areas of income, expenses, assets, liabilities and risk management. A life simulation module asks students to project their own financial life expectancies in areas such as employment, housing, transportation, education, marriage, family and retirement. It also allows students to incorporate the MoneySKILL personal finance concepts into their everyday lives, thus providing them with knowledge and skills that will last a lifetime.

Thirteen Ed Online Financial Education
Thirteen Ed Online Master Teachers developed these original lesson plans. Starting with tried-and-true lessons that work in the classroom, the teachers built Web-based activities that use the rich resources of Thirteen/WNET New York and the Internet.

TheMint.org
Lesson plans have been developed by the National Council on Economic Education to help teach 6th-12th graders how to manage money wisely.

Fed 101 Classroom Guides
FED101 is designed to provide your students with an interactive learning experience - an introduction to the Federal Reserve, its purpose and functions. The site is geared toward high school junior and senior grade levels

The ABCs of Credit Card Finance
The ABCs of Credit Card Finance is revised yearly to ensure the accuracy of its content and to continually improve its effectiveness. This year’s materials contain a number of changes in the “Credit Card Costs” section due to the passage of the Credit Card Accountability, Reliability and Disclosure Act (CARD Act) which was signed into law by President Obama on 5/22/09 to establish a more fair and transparent credit card industry.

Money and Stuff
Savings. Credit reports. Investments. What do these words really mean? This site makes it easy for you to teach financial concepts to your students, regardless of age.

Financial Skills to Last a Lifetime
Resources at this site teach students financial literacy and economic understanding.

Financial Literacy Programs
These lesson plans provide real-world financial lessons.