High School Financial Education

Prepare your students for life after high school by empowering them with personal finance skills through our financial literacy lessons! Our FREE lessons are available for download anytime and include everything educators need to teach teens about money.

Modules include materials on topics ranging from budgeting, to investing, to interviewing for your dream job and more! Download tons of FREE materials, including classroom presentations, activities, worksheets and teaching guides.

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Standards covered are listed under ‘Course Details’ in the lesson descriptions (below), or by viewing our table outlining Oregon requirements.

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Budgeting

Students explore budgeting through spending trackers and goals

Course details:

Includes presentation & worksheets
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

Budgeting
Financial Decision Making

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College Essay Writing

Workshop materials to help students compose a college essay

Course details:

Step-by-step instructions for writing a college essay
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

College essay ideas
Steps to complete a college essay

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FAFSA

Students learn about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid

Course details:

Includes presentation & worksheets
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

What is the FAFSA
How to access it
Timeline to apply

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Interviewing

Students learn about interviews and practice interviewing

Course details:

Includes presentation, worksheets & activity materials
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

Practice interviewing skills
Prepare for future job opportunities

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ORSAA

Students learn about the Oregon Student Aid Application

Course details:

Includes presentation
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

What is the ORSAA
How the ORSAA can help with college expenses

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Resume Building

Students practice creating a resume and cover letter

Course details:

Includes cover letter template & resume building guide
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.D.2

Topics include:

Learning about resumes and cover letters

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Taxes

Students explore taxes, what they fund, & how they impact earnings

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirement: HS.HECPS.C.3

Topics include:

Explore how taxes are created
Research what taxes help fund
Learn about how taxes impact their earnings

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Credit

Students explore what credit is and how to build it

Course details:

Includes presentation, worksheet materials and activities
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.A.1, HS.PFE.A.3

Topics include:

Learning about resumes and cover letters
Learning about cover letters

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Career Planning

Students explore career paths with various activities & tools

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.HECPS.A.1, HS.HECPS.B.2, HS.HECPS.B.3, HS.HECPS.C.1

Topics include:

Exploring careers that fit students needs & personality
Understanding the path needed to qualify for careers of interest

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Compound Interest

Students explore the power of compound interest

Course details:

Includes 2 presentations, worksheet materials and activities
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.B.2, HS.PFE.B.3

Topics include:

Compound interest & investing
Compound interest math concepts
Simple vs. compound interest

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Crypto

Exploration of cryptocurrency, how to invest in it, and potential risks

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.B.2

Topics include:

Understanding what cryptocurrency is
How market volatility effects cryptocurrency
How to invest in cryptocurrency

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Earning Potential

Students explore increasing their earning potential

Course details:

Presentation, worksheet materials and activities
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.HECPS.C.2, HS.HECPS.D.1, HS.HECPS.D.4

Topics include:

Reflect on possible careers
How career choices impact long-term earning potential

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Employee Benefits

Students explore types of employee benefits and compare job offers

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.HECPS.D.4

Topics include:

Understanding what types of benefits are available
Compare job offers with benefits
Assess what benefits are important to students’ lifestyle

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Intro to Personal Finance

Overview of why personal finance is essential

Course details:

Presentation and worksheets
Introduction to personal finance concepts

Topics include:

Personal finance overview
Gives teachers an idea of students knowledge/comfort level with topics

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Life Stages

Students understand how earning potential changes during different life stages

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.C.1, HS.PFE.C.2

Topics include:

Earning potential
Exploration of personal financial habits
How goals can change over your life

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Risk vs. Reward

Students learn to asses risks and rewards of investments

Course details:

Presentation, game and worksheets
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.B.2

Topics include:

Which investments are lower and higher risk
Evaluating the relationship between risk and reward

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Take-Home Pay

Students learn to read a paycheck and understand components

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.D.2, HS.PFE.D.3, HS.PFE.D.4

Topics include:

Paycheck vocabulary
Understanding a paycheck

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Depression vs. Recession

Compare and contrast of economic impacts of depression vs recession

Course details:

Presentation, activity and worksheets
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.E.1

Topics include:

The Great Depression
The Great Recession
Trends that lead to both

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The Stock Market

Exploration of the stock market with activities and simulations

Course details:

Includes presentation, activities and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.B.2

Topics include:

The Stock Market

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Banking Services

Teach students about the options they have for banking services

Course details:

Includes 2 presentations and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.B.1

Topics include:

Financial Institutions
Banking Services

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Mathematics in Financial Literacy

Exponential Decay

Exploration of the exponential decay model and apply it to situations

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.A.2

Topics include:

Exponential decay
Exponential growth review

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Exponential Growth

Using the exponential growth model to understand the relationship between principal and total

Course details:

Includes presentation and worksheet materials
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.A.2

Topics include:

Exponential growth
Impacts on home price

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Rule of 72

Mini-lesson covering how the Rule of 72 can help assess investments

Course details:

Includes presentation
Satisfies OR Requirements: HS.PFE.A.2

Topics include:

Rule of 72

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