Life Skills Resources for High School

Explore 10 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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.