Financial Literacy Unit: Grow (Investing, Retirement, and Growth)
Teaches high school students about investing, asset classes, diversification, and retirement growth strategies, including a hands-on investing simulation.
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Teaches high school students about investing, asset classes, diversification, and retirement growth strategies, including a hands-on investing simulation.
Teaches middle/high school students about protecting their finances through savings strategies, building an emergency fund, and understanding health and car insurance basics.
Teaches middle/high school students banking basics and budgeting fundamentals, including the 50/30/20 budgeting framework, through slides and a hands-on budget-building activity.
Teaches middle/high school students responsible consumer skills and habits, covering consumer protections, intentional purchasing, installment payments, consumer psychology, and responsible/sustainable consumption.
Financial Literacy: Borrow This unique learning tool - a teaching resource is tailored specifically for public school teachers and homeschoolers.
These high school financial literacy worksheets will show your students why compound interest is helpful for investors while also letting them practice math skills using percentages and a simple mathematic formula!
Teaches students core concepts of investing and growing money over time, using an online investing simulator game alongside a slide presentation.
Financial Literacy: Income Tax- Notes and Realistic Sample Practice This comprehensive financial literacy resource provides an introduction to all aspects of income tax for high school students in grades 9-12.
Financial Literacy: Interest Rates - Lending and Borrowing Money This ready to go lesson allows challenging financial concepts to become accessible for high school students.
Teaches high school students how mortgages work and how mortgage payments change when interest rates rise, using home-buying vocabulary, a worked scenario, and calculation practice.
Financial Literacy: Protect Teaching Resource The Financial Literacy: Protect teaching resource is created with the purpose of imparting students a solid financial understanding that can carry them through their school years and beyond.
Integrates financial literacy (sales tax, hourly wages, saving up for a purchase) with math practice on equivalent ratio tables and graphing ordered pairs.
Teaches high school students how registered retirement accounts (401ks and IRAs in the US, RRSPs in Canada) reduce income tax, using a worked example and progressive-tax-bracket word problems.
If you're looking for an effective and exciting program to teach financial concepts, then look no further. With this lesson on the Economics of First Apartment Rentals, your high school students can be prepared for one of the biggest…
A five-day, no-prep back-to-school packet for 11th grade that blends Algebra 2 review with literacy, writing, collaboration, and community-building activities
A five-day, no-prep back-to-school packet for 12th grade (seniors) that blends Precalculus review with literacy, writing, collaboration, and post-graduation goal-setting activities
Teach middle/high school students what fiscal policy is and how the federal government uses taxing and spending decisions to affect the economy, including budget deficits and the national debt.
Teach high school students what fiscal policy is and how the federal government uses taxing and spending decisions to affect the economy, including budget deficits and the national debt.
Flight - Digital Interactive Notebook This educational resource is perfect for middle and high school students, fitting seamlessly in the growing trend of 1:1 classrooms.
A 9-presentation science unit teaching the properties, behavior, and real-world applications of fluids (liquids and gases) as part of a matter-and-energy course.
A high school Halloween-themed reading guide bundling non-fiction articles on vampire folklore/history and Slavic legends, an original short story, an interactive lesson, and lesson handouts, for close reading and discussion in a Language Arts classroom.
Reading-guide lesson exploring what makes food organic and whether organic food is healthier than non-organic food.
Senior high school biology lesson on food as an energy source: fuel types, caloric content of macronutrients, and the (controlled) oxidation/combustion of carbohydrates.
A high school physics lesson on forces and free-body diagrams (FBDs), covering common forces, drawing FBDs, resolving net force and force vectors using a chosen coordinate system.