Exploring Personal Finance

Exploring Personal Finance 

This is a semester course designed to introduce students to the knowledge and skills required for managing their personal and family financial resources. Students learn to manage resources through hands-on applications that are relevant to their lives. Projects will require students to use academic skills in language arts, math, social sciences, and science. Emphasis is given to the development of competencies related to values, needs, and wants, goals and decision-making, career exploration, understanding paychecks, spending plans, savings, electronic banking and credit, financial institutions, and checking accounts.