BEFORE PERSONAL FINANCE
Before Personal Finance includes 10 lessons designed for ages 8–13. Each lesson takes up to two hours to complete, but it’s flexible — the four parts (teaching, activity, budget preparation, and quiz) can easily be split into shorter sessions to fit your schedule.
There are no videos just hands-on workbook lessons that make learning about money fun, engaging, and easy to understand. It’s the perfect foundation before moving on to Beyond Personal Finance.
BEYOND PERSONAL FINANCE
Beyond Personal Finance includes 20 lessons designed for ages 13-18+ that guide teens through a realistic financial simulation where their choices shape their future. Each lesson follows this structure (for a full Scope and Sequence go HERE):
- Parent/Teacher Prep (under 5 minutes): Watch a short video overview of the lesson and learn how to connect it to your own real-world experience.
- Student Instruction (20–30 minutes): The student (and parent/teacher, if desired) watches the teaching video where concepts are explained and assignments introduced.
- Hands-On Budget Work (20–60 minutes): The student makes choices and enters their numbers into the spreadsheet.
- Review (5 minutes): The parent/teacher checks the work especially those tricky tax numbers students never believe are real!
While these are the official time guidelines, most families find the real learning happens in the conversations that follow:
“Wow, I never knew how much ___ cost!”
“I couldn’t afford ___ because I spent too much on ___ earlier!”
That kind of real-world reflection is what makes our products both memorable and transformative.