Course Description:

Do you want to learn how to better manage your money? Have you always wondered how the stock market works? This semester long course teaches the fundamentals of financial management including: banking, credit, taxes, investing, retirement planning, and insurance. Understanding the connection between career choices, goal setting, and future income/earning potential empowers students to make informed decisions that lead to financial independence. Students actively participate in project-based activities to demonstrate the importance of these concepts in meeting personal financial goals. Practical applications such as writing checks, calculating interest, preparing a budget, buying/leasing a car, renting an apartment, and purchasing a home are also included. This course fulfills the Financial Literacy graduation requirement.

Google Classroom:

Students will use Google Classroom along with other online learning environments and materials to complete class activities, assignments, labs, projects, and assessments.

Google Classroom facilitates creating, distributing, and completing assignments in a paperless environment, along with providing students 24x7, universal access to course materials. Students can access coursework in Google Classroom from any computing device. Students may also download the Google Classroom App to a smartphone. Course assignments and announcements are regularly posted in Google Classroom to facilitate students successfully and independently managing and completing coursework to better prepare students for college, the trades, and/or the workforce.