Secondary School · Grades 7–9 · Ages 12–15
From pocket money to the real economy.
Somewhere around age twelve, "which jar does it go in?" stops being the question. The middle years ask the next ones: what does a bank actually pay you, what does inflation quietly take, where do taxes go, and how does a rate decision in Washington reach a kitchen table at home?
The three grades
Each year, one bigger system.
Products, Prices and the Mind
Financial products and inflation · ages 12–13
- Savings accounts, funds and bonds compared
- What inflation does to a saved coin
- Opportunity cost, formalised
- Behavioural biases — noticing your own
Income, Taxes and Enterprise
Earning at scale · ages 13–14
- Income and where taxes go
- Budgets with real complexity
- Active vs passive income
- Entrepreneurship: a first business idea
Where the Peso Meets the Dollar
The global channel · ages 14–15 · 6 sessions × 50 min
- Exchange rates as a price
- Who wins and loses when a currency moves
- Imported inflation, link by link
- Remittances, fees and hidden margins
- First mock portfolio and diversification
Flagship unit · Grade 9
Where the Peso Meets the Dollar
Six 50-minute sessions on the channel every Mexican family lives inside and almost no school explains: the exchange rate as a price, who wins and who loses when the peso moves, how a weaker currency becomes more expensive groceries link by link, and remittances — the dollars a family receives, the fees and hidden margins on the way.
Students sort winner-and-loser cards under a weaker and a stronger peso, write the five-link chain from memory, and finish with the unit's signature task: Explain It To Your Abuela — a plain-language written explanation, marked against a rubric.
The unit teaches the direction of effects, never predictions — and it debunks "strong peso = strong Mexico" on the way through. Key vocabulary runs bilingual, English and Spanish.
- Grade
- Grade 9
- Length
- 6 sessions × 50 min
- Format
- Teacher guide, session plans, sorting cards, worksheets
- Assessment
- Formative gates + written task with 10-mark rubric
- Extras
- Optional family-interview and price-watch home extensions
- Language
- English, with bilingual EN/ES key vocabulary
Live market figures are never printed in the materials — teachers pull current data from official sources the week they teach. We would rather teach your students to find real numbers than hand them stale ones.
See the middle years in your sample pack.
Session plans, activities and assessments — judge the materials themselves.
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