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Engaging High School Financial Literacy Lessons for Your Classroom

Help Students Develop Financial Well-Being

Comprehensive Financial Literacy Lessons

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.

  • Banking Basics
  • Budgeting
  • Employment and Taxes
  • Managing Credit and Debt
  • Financing Higher Education

EVERFI’s digital resources are here to help you teach real-world, financial literacy skills in any type of learning environment.

Course Snapshot

  • Target Students

    Grades 9-12

  • Curriculum

    Economics, Financial Literacy, Family and Consumer Science, Business, and AVID

  • Time

    7 Lessons / 35-Minute Lessons, 4 Hours Total

High School Financial Literacy Lesson - Income and Employment

Lesson Plan

Banking Basics

Students build an understanding of how financial institutions work, how to use them, the different products they offer, and how to manage their own account portfolio.

screenshot of direct deposit

Employment & Taxes

Students explore how employment decisions affect their earning potential and income over their lifetime. Students also develop an understanding of taxes and deductions.

In most markets, this lesson also includes interactive Intuit TurboTax simulations.

screenshot of filing status on turbotax

Budgeting

By reflecting on their budgeting personality, students develop a tactical strategy for setting financial goals and simulate managing monthly finances.

Consumer Skills

Through navigating the purchase processes for everyday purchases like a car and house, students learn the essentials of becoming an informed consumer and enrich their personal financial literacy.

asking experts screenshot for car purchase

Managing Credit and Debt

Students develop an understanding of credit, how a credit score is calculated, and the impact of that score on the features and fees associated with credit cards.

screenshot of managing credit and debit cards

Financing Higher Education

Students identify potential financial stressors and create a blueprint for actions they can take to better prepare them for financing higher education.

screenshot of roadmap of colleges
screenshot of filing status on turbotax

Tax Simulations for High School Students

Taxes often feel complicated! That’s why Intuit and EVERFI are helping students feel more prepared.The Intuit TurboTax tax simulations exist within the EVERFI: Financial Literacy digital course and are dedicated to providing high school students with the skills and knowledge they need to file taxes.


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Bring EVERFI: Financial Literacy into Your Classroom, School and District

Access and Accountability

Asynchronous learning allows for lessons anytime, anywhere with built-in assessments and real-time grading.

Turnkey Lessons

Gamified financial skills in a fail-safe environment. Teachers receive lesson plans, activities, & discussion guides, too.

Implementation Support

Our regional support team guides teachers every step of the way, through on-demand training and professional learning events.

Join the 60,000+ teachers who used EVERFI's award-winning lessons this past school year!

I think it is important for students to learn about financial literacy and budgeting because these courses teach students real life skills that they are going to need in their everyday life to be successful and survive in the real world.

Gabriel A.
High School Teacher, Texas

I like that it was ready-to-use, user-friendly and incorporated both fun and learning, real-life skills.

Teacher
Comsewogue School District, New York

This EVERFI course helped me understand the different kinds of ways and methods I can use to set up a budget and stick to it. I now feel confident in understanding how to set up my future financial stability with the knowledge of budgeting I have now.

Seth M.
High School Student, Ohio

Frequently Asked Questions

EVERFI has built a network of partners and sponsors who help fund our digital resources for K-12 teachers, schools, and districts. Through multi-year commitments, EVERFI gives educators the assurance that programming can be launched at scale and even written into the curriculum.

These lessons are aligned to National and State ELA Standards. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation with your kindergarten or elementary students.

EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students. Thanks to partners, we provide our digital platform, training, and support at no cost.

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