High School Personal Finance: Ohio Curriculum Alignment

Here's how High School Personal Finance aligns with curriculum standards in Ohio. Use the filters to change the location, set of standards, and grade level.

The department shall incorporate into the standards and model curriculum for financial literacy and entrepreneurship for grades nine through twelve academic content regarding free market capitalism. The academic content shall include all of the following concepts related to free market capitalism:

Standards

Defined by Ohio Academic Standards 9th-12th Grades and align with High School Personal Finance

ii: Individuals control their own ability to work, earn wages, and obtain skills to earn and increase wages.

iii: Private ownership of capital may include a sole proprietorship, a family business, a publicly traded corporation, a group of private investors, or a bank.

iv: Markets aggregate the exchange of goods and services throughout the world. Market prices are the only way to convey so much constantly changing information about the supply of goods and services, and the demand for them, for consumers and producers to make informed economic decisions for themselves.

ix: The political features of the free market, including legally protected property rights, legally enforceable contracts, patent protections, and the mitigation of side effects and market failures;

v: Wealth is created by providing goods and services that people value at a profit, and both sellers and buyers seek to profit in some way in a free market transaction. Thus, profit earned through transactions can be consumed, saved, reinvested in the business, or dispersed to shareholders.