A lesson in personal finance can be the most valuable part of a high school education. Connect the basics of banking with informational reading skills in a lesson that prompts teenagers to answer a series of questions based on an array of infographics. Topics range from compound interest, investment tools, budgeting, and emergency funds.

Concepts

financial literacy, economics, personal finance, credit, banking, human capital, budgeting, investing, compound interest

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Additional Tags

college and career readiness

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity to introduce a unit on banking and personal finance
• Host an economics seminar for high schoolers before graduation
• Organize a trip to a local bank to learn more about investments and interest rates
• Consider projecting the posters on the board or making them available on class tablets

Classroom Considerations

• Links provide ways to download or order professional prints of the infographics

Pros

• Engaging for pupils who are unfamiliar with banking terms as well as advanced economics students
• Promotes analytic reading skills
• Includes answer keys for both worksheets

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1