COURSE ID: HI355SYNA01

Financial Literacy Fund.

Current 2025-26
Start Date: August 18, 2025
End Date: May 21, 2026
District: Niobrara County School District #1
Grade Levels: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Provider: WYVA

In this course, students explore their roles as producers, consumers, investors, and taxpayers while learning financial literacy focused on investments, markets, and taxes. They apply concepts through real-world simulations. Topics include markets from historical and modern views; supply and demand; budgeting; credit and saving; debt reduction; economic theories by Adam Smith and David Ricardo; money’s evolution and banking; Keynesian economics; capitalism’s workings and challenges like unemployment and inflation; profiles of business leaders; and an overview of global markets in China, Europe, and the Middle East.