Description

A complete ten-lesson personal finance course — a semester, or a relaxed year, depending on how you run it.

Every lesson is the same shape: a short reading, a worksheet that applies it immediately, a hands-on project, and an answer key written for whoever is marking it. Money goals and mindset, decoding a paycheck, choosing an account, budgeting, saving, compound growth, minimum payments, a hypothetical portfolio, and what a car really costs.

Then the capstone: your student builds a full first-year budget — income, housing, transport, food, all of it — and the course breaks it with an unexpected $600 bill. Whatever else fades, they remember having to make that work.

It pairs with Clutch, a free no-download budgeting tool, for three of the lessons. Login is an email address. Every assignment works on paper, so it is genuinely optional.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

•Course Guide — pacing, what you need to know first, how to mark it, and the hours record
•Lesson 1: Money Goals & Mindset
•Lesson 2: Decode Your Paycheck
•Lesson 3: Pick a Bank Account
•Lesson 4: Build a Budget That Balances
•Lesson 5: Design a Savings Plan
•Lesson 6: The Power of Starting Early
•Lesson 7: The Real Cost of Minimum Payments
•Lesson 8: Build a (Hypothetical) Portfolio
•Lesson 9: What a Car Really Costs
•Lesson 10: Capstone — Your First Year On Your Own, stress-tested
•Supplementary pack: three checkpoint quizzes, case studies, discussion prompts, a vocabulary challenge and an honors extension
•A guide to Clutch, the free companion budgeting tool
•Hours & Work Record for logging time and filing portfolio evidence

Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.

Money Smarts for Teens | Full 10-Lesson Personal Finance Course | Homeschool Edition

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WorldviewFaith-neutral
AgesAges 12–18
SubjectBusiness & Economics — Personal Finance
Resource typeSemester course
ApproachUnit study, Eclectic
Works forOne student, Co-op / group
Per session30–60 min
Days a weekFlexible
Total lengthSemester
Parent prepOpen-and-go
Who teachesParent-guided
ReuseReusable, some consumable pages
FormatPrintable PDF
RecordsIncludes assessments, Hour logging, Portfolio samples
Keywordspersonal finance, money smarts, course, middle school, homeschool personal finance, money, smarts, teens