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Empower your students through personal finance education

The Intuit for Education Personal Finance curriculum teaches students about taxes, credit, investing, and other financial skills, using tools that help bring these concepts to life in the classroom.

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Everything you need to teach personal finance


Our interactive and flexible lesson plans and curriculum for personal finance coursework allow for differentiated instruction and hybrid learning, so you can easily adapt to your classroom and individual student needs.

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Teach with real-world tools to apply financial concepts

Our curriculum includes simulations based on Intuit's financial products used by approximately 100 million individuals, which allow students to apply the concepts they learn in real-world scenarios. In this curriculum, they'll have access to:

  • Intuit TurboTax to calculate and file their taxes
  • Intuit Credit Karma to master their credit
  • Intuit Budgeting for budgeting and managing an investment portfolio
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Resources to customize your instruction

Get all the resources you need to teach personal finance with confidence, including interactive activities, presentations, assessments, and more. Our flexible curriculum allows you to choose the elements that are important to you and work for your classroom.

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Flexible training and support

Feel prepared and confident to teach personal finance by accessing live and on-demand webinars, how-to videos, and a teacher community where you can learn from your peers and share best practices.

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Intuit Personal Finance curriculum units

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Becoming financially literate

Kick off the topic of personal finance by covering basic financial concepts for students and explaining why it matters. From there, students learn other key concepts, like how to build a healthy relationship with their finances.


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Money mindsets

In this unit, students learn how to become smart consumers and make better purchasing decisions. This unit also covers how students can avoid fraud and other financial scams as they enter the global marketplace.


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Banking

Here students will learn to tackle the complex world of banking. They’ll gain a foundational understanding of how banking works, how to bank responsibly, checking and savings account basics, and a crash curriculum in online banking.


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Budgeting

This unit teaches students how to create a budgeting strategy, plan for emergencies, and give to community causes. From there, students move on to setting, tracking, and improving their financial health.


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Saving

Proper preparation for unexpected emergencies is a critical part of personal finance. In this unit, students learn how to build and manage an emergency fund, plan for retirement, fund their futures, and implement tax advantages.


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Credit

Help students understand the concept of credit scores and learn best practices on building credit. They’ll learn to apply these concepts to real-world scenarios such as applying for a car loan or a mortgage.


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Investing

This unit teaches vital, and often daunting, concepts of personal finance planning like assessing risk levels, calculating rates of return, and understanding investment assets. It also touches on more complex concepts—like stock market information and regulations—to help students find their way in the investing world.


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Career planning

This lesson helps students to plan for their desired career path as it relates to continuing their education, and navigating economic cycles in the workforce. In addition to providing insights on the small business market, with information on how students can start, operate, and scale their own businesses.


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Paying for college

College can be a significant financial undertaking for students just graduating high school. This unit provides helpful insights into planning for college costs, exploring available financial aid resources, and simplifying the student loan landscape.


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Insurance

Students will understand the necessary insurance they’ll need for future cars and homes. They’ll learn what’s actually covered by insurance and what types of insurance to consider.


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Taxes

Taxes are one of the broadest personal finance topics and one of the most crucial. They affect everything from our income to purchasing goods and services. This unit teaches students how to file a 1040 tax return and understand key concepts like income, sales tax, and withholdings.


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Economics

Learn key economic concepts like inflation, and supply and demand. This unit also teaches students how to save during times of inflation and highlights the impact it can have on the larger economy.


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Conclusion

At the end of the curriculum, we celebrate students for their hard work throughout the program. They’ll also prepare for the Personal Finance curriculum’s final assessment, an in-depth 100-question quiz, to test their knowledge before finishing the curriculum.


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Help your students grasp personal finance concepts through the Intuit Prosperity Quest game

Intuit Prosperity Quest is a Web3D game that helps get your students ready for their financial futures and interested in learning more about personal finance. Students will explore concepts like credit, loans, savings, and investments to begin building their financial savviness in a fun and engaging way!

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Help students achieve financial success with the optional Intuit Personal Finance certification

This certification tests students' financial skills, making sure they can use what they've learned.

  • Can be used alongside any personal finance lessons
  • Approved by finance experts and given by Certiport, a top certification group
  • Includes a proctored exam, a practice test and a retake assessment


Disclaimer: While Intuit for Education is 100% free, the optional certification is offered through a third party, Certiport, and fees may apply based on your state and district. For questions, contact your administrator.

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Our curriculum helps fulfill personal finance state mandates

Each state has its own regulations and requirements on financial literacy curriculum. Currently, many states require a financial literacy curriculum for high school graduation. Intuit’s curriculum is built to help educators and students meet these requirements. Additionally, Intuit for Education curriculum is aligned to national personal finance standards.

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Ready to take financial education a step further?

In addition to building the critical personal finance skills students need, the Intuit Entrepreneurial Finance curriculum offers something different for those who plan to have a side hustle or someday start a business. Students will learn a range of topics including financial planning for their side hustle, how to raise funding for a new business, and how to value their business if and when it comes time for their exit strategy.

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