High School Resources for Teaching Personal Finance
The Economic Education team at the St. Louis Fed has hundreds of free, award-winning resources for teaching economics, including active learning lessons, videos and much more.
Check out these ten active learning lessons to make your teaching stick!
Choosing a Career
Bring the workforce into the classroom! Help your students understand how training and experience impact their future income in this ACTIVE learning simulation!
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Entrepreneurship
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Building a Budget
Engage your students in this real-life simulation where they practice budgeting a monthly income. This is an essential life skill.
Net Worth and Cash Flow
BRING PERSONAL FINANCE TO LIFE!! Ever thought of turning your classroom into a wallet?! In this ACTIVE lesson, students move in and out of a “wallet,” simulating cash flow and identifying its relationship to net worth.
Types of Savings
This lesson helps students evaluate three different types of savings accounts and deepen their understanding of what they are used for! Sprinkle in some CREATIVITY to this topic and have students develop an informative brochure sharing what they learned!
Diversification and Risk
Students learn about savings and investment options in a classroom simulation. Trust us—your students WON’T complain when you hand them a $1,000 bill in this activity!
Investment Options
Students use the PACED decision-making model to investigate and evaluate the tradeoffs in choosing an investment. Your students will retain information on risk, liquidity, costs, and rate of return after participating in this activity!
Creditworthiness
Students become the credit providers in this simulation and get to actively assess a borrower’s Students become the credit providers in this simulation and get to actively assess a borrower’s creditworthiness!
Managing Risk
GAMIFICATION is a great way to help with knowledge retention and understand risk. Students choose an insurance option and then face random events.
Identity Theft
ENGAGE your students in the important active lesson around identity theft. Students play a game about identity protection, choosing ways to protect their identity and facing events in which they risk their identity being stolen.
