Making Finance Personal: Project-Based Learning for the Personal Finance Class
Explore this 11-unit curriculum that helps to make personal finance concepts relevant and related vocabulary approachable. It also lays a foundation through active, project-based learning, and real-world situations and allows students to experiment with financial strategies that can help minimize costly future mistakes. The accompanying student activities and assignments complement both textbooks and classroom instruction and connect to students’ lives on a personal level. Additionally, students will use checklists rubrics, and reflective essays tied to essential questions to help evaluate their progress, identify challenges, and apply what they have learned in developing their own financial strategy. Attendees will walk through the units, including their correlation to curricular standards, and receive access to a complete copy of the curriculum.
