Materials & Resources For High School Classrooms

Below you will find free financial education curriculum and materials for the classroom.

Please Note:
DFI does not register, review, or evaluate financial education curriculum or resources for Washington schools.

The resources listed below are designed so educators can easily implement financial education discussions into the classroom.

Grade Level

Type

Resource

6-9	Outside Program	My Life, My Money Camp Spokane Teachers Credit Union offers My Life, My Money Camp, a concentrated financial literacy program for students. This free, one-day workshop will give students the tools they need to help reach financial and life goals. The camp is typically offered on in-service days.
6-12	Curriculum	WSECU - The Vault To help improve financial literacy among young people, Washington State Employees Credit Union is pleased to present this free, user-friendly financial literacy curriculum. Designed for middle- and high school students, The Vault includes chapters on Budgeting, Saving & Investing, Getting Your Money’s Worth, and Managing Your Money.
6-12	Online Game	FSI - Fraud Scene Investigator An online interactive investor education program that teaches and empowers students how to detect and stop a million-dollar investment fraud and put the mysterious con man, “Mr. X,” behind bars.
6-College	Curriculum	Money Smart for Young Adults 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.
7-9	Curriculum	Money Math Lessons for Life Money Math: Lessons for Life is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book is a teacher's guide with lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips.
7-12	Curriculum	Practical Money Skills for Life Complete curriculum and materials from Visa. Designed for students in grades 7-12.
9-12	Competition	LifeSmarts Competition LifeSmarts is game-show style competition that develops the consumer and marketplace knowledge and skills of teenagers.
9-12	Challenge	National Financial Literacy Challenge The National Financial Literacy Challenge will test the financial literacy levels of America’s high school students, ages 13-18. The challenge is open to high school classrooms as well as after-school non-profit community organizations.
9-12	Online Curriculum	MoneySKILL MoneySKILL is a free personal finance, reality-based Internet curriculum. MoneySKILL is ideal for high schools.
9-12	Online Curriculum	Consumer Jungle Consumer Jungle is an interactive, web-based program that helps high school students become literate, savvy consumers. Consumer Jungle provides engaging and relevant consumer education curricula covering a variety of topics such as credit cards, transportation, living on your own, personal finances, telecommunications, health, and e-commerce fraud.