High School Resources for Educators

Help high school students start their financial lives smart and strong. These lessons cover school loans, saving and investing, balancing a budget, and developing strong credit.

The Hands on Banking financial education program offers lessons, activities, and other resources you can download and use alone or as a supplement or complement to your teaching. This engaging and innovative program is modular and divided into scaffolding units; however, you can order and organize the content to best meet the needs of your students.

Instructor Guide

This comprehensive instructor guide can be used alone or in conjunction with the online High School Course. The six units correspond to the online video lessons: Getting Started; Earning Money; Spending Smart; Save, Invest and Build Wealth; All About Credit; and School and Money. This guide contains discussion questions and key points, worksheets and activities, and teaching tips.

.pdf Instructor Guide - Unit 1: Getting Started

.pdf Instructor Guide - Unit 2: Earning Money

.pdf Instructor Guide - Units 3-6: Spending Smart; Save, Invest and Build Wealth; All About Credit; School and Money