Life Skills Resources for High School

Explore 14 curated life skills learning resources designed for High School students. Browse curricula, apps, videos, worksheets, and more to find the perfect fit for your learner.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Sean Covey's teen adaptation of the classic habits framework — goal-setting, prioritisation and personal responsibility, aimed at ages 12-17.

Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying

Barbara Oakley's bestselling learning-science guide rewritten for ages 10-17, teaching focused and diffuse thinking, chunking, and how to beat procrastination.

Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

A short, 160-page distillation of Barbara Oakley's learning research, co-written with Olav Schewe — the fastest way into the material for an older teen.

Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

A concise personal-finance primer built around 8 principles and 99 practical money lessons — budgeting, saving, credit, and investing — for teens and young adults. A popular graduation gift and homeschool money-skills supplement.

I Want More Pizza: Real World Money Skills For High School, College, And Beyond

A short, teen-friendly intro to money skills that uses a pizza metaphor to teach saving, budgeting, and compound growth. Written for high-school and college students; a quick, actionable first personal-finance read.

Foundations in Personal Finance: Homeschool Edition

Dave Ramsey's flagship high-school personal-finance curriculum, adapted for homeschoolers — a print student text plus streaming video lessons taught by Ramsey personalities, covering budgeting, saving, debt, investing, and insurance.

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OffLadder

Career exploration for ages 13+ that suggests directions to investigate and a 20-minute real-world task to try each one, instead of a personality label. Free tier; optional $9/month membership.

EconEdLink

A free K-12 library of more than 1,000 economics and personal-finance lessons, interactive activities, and videos from the Council for Economic Education — searchable by grade, topic, and standard.

Biz Kid$

A free, Emmy-winning financial-literacy platform built around the public-television series — videos, lesson plans, and activities that teach kids and teens how money works, how to save, and how to start a business.

Money Smart for Young People

The FDIC's free, award-winning financial-education curriculum for ages Pre-K through 12, with grade-banded lesson plans, student activities, and parent/caregiver guides covering saving, spending, and banking basics.

Hands on Banking

Free, self-paced financial education from Wells Fargo for every age group — kids, teens, young adults, and adults — covering saving, budgeting, credit, and smart money decisions, with no login or sign-up required.

Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF)

A completely free, comprehensive personal finance curriculum for middle and high school — full courses, ready-to-teach lesson plans, interactive activities, and games covering budgeting, banking, credit, investing, and paying for college.

Typing.com

A completely free, full K-12 touch-typing curriculum from Teaching.com, with lessons, tests, games, and a teacher/parent dashboard for tracking progress.

Typesy

Cloud-based typing software built for families and homeschoolers, with adaptive lessons, video instruction, games, and detailed progress tracking across multiple students.