Personal Finance: Your Money    

Course #: IT137   Grades: 10-12   Credits: .5*   Length: Semester   Expectation Level: 3  

Prerequisite: None

Personal Finance: Your Money builds awareness of and knowledge about everyday financial topics and decisions around them and emphasizes the importance of building a sound financial foundation. Students are encouraged to embrace financial literacy while learning about real-world topics such as, but not limited to: budgeting and saving, choosing and balancing a checking account, managing credit/debit cards, using online banking, paying taxes, investing, finding a job, finding an apartment, buying a car, buying a home, investing for retirement, and getting insurance.

Text and materials: None

Expectations: Students learn key personal financial skills and demonstrate competence in an online simulated world; understand the importance of financial literacy; realize the importance of starting a savings plan at an early age; develop knowledge of financial topics that are important now and in the future; and learn how to write checks and keep proper checking/banking/financial records.

* Personal Finance is NOT counted as a Technology Credit. It does qualify as an elective, however.