A Beginner’s Guide to Securing Your Financial Future

For Teachers

Explore this site for tools that facilitate personal financial education in the high school or college classroom.

Teach students about:

Setting financial goals
Budgeting
Saving and investing
Building credit and managing debt
Protecting wealth with basic insurance

Interactive Lesson Plans

Building Wealth Lesson Plans:

In-depth financial literacy lessons contain:

PDF presentation
Instructional objectives
Scaffolded handouts and extension activities
Procedure document
Assessments

Keyed to curriculum standards

The Texas Legislature mandated the teaching of personal finance education in the economics high school classroom. The Texas State Board of Education approved Building Wealth as one of the resources that meets this mandate.

Online Guide

With the Building Wealth online guide you can:

Learn about the people of Building Wealth

Explore their various financial situations and related topics
See how each character sets goals, budgets, builds credit and controls debt
Review what they (and you) have learned

Try out interactive forms and tools (available in web, PDF or Excel versions) on

Defining personal wealth
Using a balance sheet to determine net worth
Setting financial goals
Tracking daily spending
Creating a budget
Planning an investment strategy
Controlling debt

Navigate between tools/resources and chapter content
Easily access glossary and resource links

The online guide also contains the information and resources available in the printed guide pdf.

Printed Guide

The Building Wealth printed guide includes:

Lessons with examples of how the people of Building Wealth set goals, budget, build credit and control debt (see the online guide for more in-depth exploration of each character and their financial situations)
Paper forms that help you learn how to