FutureSmart℠: Join Over 44,000 Educators Who Are Improving Their Students' Financial Literacy
- Understand their financial personalities
- Discover the importance of budgeting
- Learn how to save and manage day-to-day expenses
- Explore different careers in finance
Trusted by 21,000+ K-12 Schools and 8,000+ Districts Nationwide
EVERFI: Financial Literacy® for High School is a digital education program that teaches students how to make wise financial decisions to promote financial well-being over their lifetime. The interactive lessons in this financial literacy course translate complex financial concepts and help students develop actionable strategies for managing their finances.
Course Snapshot
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Target Grades
Grades 6-8
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Curriculum
Economics, Business or Social Studies, Career Readiness
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Lesson Time
25 Minutes/Activity, 3.5 Hours Total
Digital Lessons
Welcome Mayor!
Students are introduced to the course storyline and participate in their mayoral inauguration! Students also take a “Financial Personality Test,” and reflect on their own personal financial priorities, habits and mindsets.
Smart Shopping
Students learn the importance of budgeting as they help a character redecorate his room on a limited budget. Students engage in comparison-shopping methods to ultimately learn how to make smart choices about when and how to spend.
Ways to Pay
Students learn both the importance of saving and how to manage day-to-day expenses. Students help a character find a job, review his paycheck and credit card statement, and decide when to utilize different payment types.
Investing in You
Help a character explore different career path options and narrow her interests by examining required skills and interests, income potential, and education and training requirements. Students also explore ways to reduce out-of-pocket cost of higher education.
Growing a Business
Students learn all about business growth as they help a business owner with various tasks, such as calculating monthly profit and loss and strategizing how to save for new capital. They also learn how to open savings and checking accounts, grow money faster with a certificate deposit, and make monthly transaction decisions.
Your Financial Future
Students explore a “life simulation” and support a character in making important insurance and investment decisions. Through helping the character analyze and select different insurance policies, students get the chance to experience just how random, unexpected occurrences can lead to financial loss.
Build Your Blueprint
The course comes full circle in this final lesson, as students utilize their newfound knowledge to set their own financial goals and plans. Students create a portfolio piece, known as their “Blueprint,” which details future career interests, plans for higher education, and next action steps.
