Personal Finance Resources for High School

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

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.

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.

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.

Finance for Everyone Capstone Project

Each course in F4E offers key insights and knowledge you will be able to apply in real-life situations. You’ll test drive those insights through activities and assessments that will influence your key money Decisions, your participation in financial...

Housing

Is it always better to buy than rent? What if home prices go up dramatically and rents don't? How can we compare home prices to rents to figure out what to do. This older tutorial (low-res, bad handwriting) walks us through this. It is about ho...

Taxes

Benjamin Franklin (and several other writers/philosophers) tells us that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” He's right. This tutorial focus on personal income tax. Very important to watch if y...

Sense and Dollars

A website from the US Department of Education that uses games to teach financial literacy. Kids can learn how much they will have to work to earn the money for something, how to do a budget, etc....

Investment vehicles, insurance, and retirement

Let your money travel through time! Investment vehicles let your spend money now to get more money later (they usually have nothing to do with cars). Insurance is a way of spending money now to protect against future losses....

Personal Finance for Teens

Personal Finance for Teens is a teacher-directed interactive course of study covering financial literacy skills. Topics include banking, budgets, credit cards, debt management, taxes, investing, and much more. Be sure and check out the Screen Shots a...