Financial Education Program for Middle School Students?

[BettyBoop]

We are homeschooling our seventh and eighth graders this year due to COVID-19. They are interested in personal finance and we would love to find a program that we could include in their curriculum this year. We would prefer not to purchase a Dave Ramsey program. Is there anything else out there that would be useful?

[appleseed]

http://www.themint.org/teens/

Could also set up a bank account and have them set goals and save. I just opened back statements with my 9 and 7 year old and looked over their dividends (credit union cub account getting 2% interest).

When I lived in Delaware I did some classes with the Delaware Money School. They offer free classes throughout the state on all sorts of topics. A lot of the budgeting/basic intro classes came from the cooperative extension, so I'd look to see if you can find anything local.

Outschool might have something. You can sign up and get a $20 credit. Lmk if you want a referral code.

I'd also check out khan academy and see if anything exists there.

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[trollwithamustache]

By middle school both of ours had bank accounts. We paid interest (similar to the MMM post) to encourage savings.

Note, if you give them true freedom with the money, they will not at first spend it the way you think is wise. the "at first" period will very in length substantially by child.

I preferred they make mistakes early but this bothered my wife greatly, so YMMV.

[APowers]

You might look at the ChooseFI 101 course. I'm not sure if it's not too focused on "adults", but it's free and pretty great, so worth a look at least.

[joleran]

https://sites.google.com/ja.org/ja-k-12-prog-resources/ja-ms-resources?authuser=0 has some great stuff