Financial Education
SaveUp: Saving Money for the Future
Savings Simulation For Middle School Students
Why Adopt This Course?
Starting out in life with a strong financial literacy foundation is crucial to students’ long-term success. This is why we have created a free interactive, digital course called SaveUp. Through engaging self-paced lessons, middle school students are provided with the knowledge and skills they need to become informed consumers on how to save money, thus prompting them to begin saving as early as possible. In this course, students will learn why saving is important, how to budget and spend wisely, how to build an emergency savings, why savings can help reach financial goals, setting short-, mid-, and long-term goals and how to open a savings account.
We know that developing good financial literacy means recognizing the importance of budgeting savings and spending wisely. Help your students thrive by using SaveUp in the classroom today!
[Currently available only to U.S. Schools]
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
6th, 7th, 8thLength
4 digital lessons, 10 min each
Languages
Standards
Jump$tart Coalition’s National Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, State Academic Standards
Curriculum Fit
Economics, Business or Social Studies, Career Readiness
Students will recognize the importance of budgeting savings and spending wisely including how to save more, identifying needs vs. wants, reducing expenses, increasing income and what to do when real life / crisis happens.
Students learn the importance of saving money and setting financial goals. Specifically setting short, mid, and long-term goals and the how and why of emergency savings.
Students will recognize how a savings account can help them reach their financial goals including learning what a savings account is, how savings accounts work, the benefits (FDIC, interest), and how to plan for real life/crises.
Students will become familiarized with the process of opening a savings account while walking through a simulated onboarding to open a savings account making sure to include what’s needed (e.g. parents, identification) and reading the “fine-print,” rules, and restrictions (e.g. minimum balance).
Students will recognize the importance of budgeting savings and spending wisely including how to save more, identifying needs vs. wants, reducing expenses, increasing income and what to do when real life / crisis happens.
Students learn the importance of saving money and setting financial goals. Specifically setting short, mid, and long-term goals and the how and why of emergency savings.
Students will recognize how a savings account can help them reach their financial goals including learning what a savings account is, how savings accounts work, the benefits (FDIC, interest), and how to plan for real life/crises.
Students will become familiarized with the process of opening a savings account while walking through a simulated onboarding to open a savings account making sure to include what’s needed (e.g. parents, identification) and reading the “fine-print,” rules, and restrictions (e.g. minimum balance).
Why Everfi?
Everfi empowers educators to bring real-world learning into the classroom and equip students with the skills they need for success-now and in the future. Our curriculum and courses are:
- Loved by 750,000+ teachers
- Aligned to US, Canada, and UK learning standards.
- Real-world lessons that are self-paced and interactive.
- Automatically graded with built-in assessments and reporting.
- Extendable with activities and resources to bring the information to life.
- Supported with a dedicated, regional team.
- Forever free for K-12 educators.
How Are These Lessons Free?
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of corporations who share our mission, Everfi’s courses are completely free to teachers, districts, and families