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Council for Economic Education

The Full-Semester Personal Finance Course: A Standards-Aligned, Turnkey Curriculum

The Full-Semester Personal Finance Course: A Standards-Aligned, Turnkey Curriculum

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*This product is delivered as an eBook and includes printable PDFs of the Teacher Guide and Student Workbook.* 

ISBN: 979-8-9961532-0-6

The Full-Semester Personal Finance Course is a one-semester curriculum designed to deliver standards-aligned personal finance instruction in high school classrooms. Created by teachers for teachers, this turn-key course is built to be easily and immediately implemented in the classroom, saving time for busy teachers. 

Download sample lesson here: Course Sample Units + Lessons
 
The course provides 80 days of instruction covering essential topics including financial decision-making, spending, saving, managing risk, earning income, investing, and managing credit.  
 
Each lesson includes a teacher-facing guide, blank student worksheets, student worksheet answer keys, and ready-to-use presentation slides.  

The curriculum aligns with CEE and Jum$tart National Personal Finance Standards and is designed to prepare students for participation in the National Personal Finance Challenge. This course was classroom-tested by CEE pilot teachers with thousands of high school students participating nationally.  

Summary of key features: 

  • Turnkey structure designed to support immediate classroom implementation
  • 16-week curriculum (9 units, 80 days of instruction)
  • Built for active, project-based learning in person
  • Aligns with CEE and Jum$tart National Personal Finance Standards
  • Assessments: pre-test, unit exams, class quiz games (quiz bowls), progressive unit case studies culminating into a final case study project

The Student Workbook included with this product is provided as a printable PDF.

For classrooms that prefer physical copies, printed Student Workbooks are also available for bulk purchase. Print orders require a minimum of 25 copies. To place an order, please contact us at cee@brightkey.net.

What Teachers Are Saying

"My students were talking to their parents about credit scores after class. That’s when I knew this was working." — High School Teacher, Spring 2025 Pilot 

"What stood out most was how engaged students became when they saw the relevance of the content to their own lives." — High School Teacher, Spring 2025 Pilot 
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