The Curriculum
One semester. Six units. One question that runs through all of it.
Can you evaluate anything before you put money in it — and can you teach someone else to?
The unit map
Six units, each anchored on a single question.
- 1
Money Itself
What actually is money, and who decides?
- 2
The Four-Question Method
How do I evaluate anything before I put money in it?
- 3
Building
How does wealth compound — and what gets in the way?
- 4
The New Rails
What is blockchain, and why does it matter in your lifetime?
- 5
Defense
How do people lose money, and how do I not be one of them?
- 6
Capstone
Can you teach this to someone else?
Unit 1
Money Itself
What actually is money, and who decides? Students trace how money moves from barter to central banks, then build the mental model for every unit that follows.
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The pre/post assessments, instructor guide, and answer key are sent to verified educators to protect assessment integrity.
Request the educator kitThe five-beat session spine
Every one of the 90 sessions runs the same spine, in order.
Beat 1
Hook
a story or provocation before any content
Beat 2
Active element
a game, simulation, or build that teaches better than lecture
Beat 3
Teach moment
naming what students just felt
Beat 4
Method callback
every session feeds the four-question method
Beat 5
Exit ticket
a 30-second formative check
Sessions are engagement-load tagged — high-energy, discussion, making — so attention is budgeted at the structural level, never three loud days in a row.
The four-question method
Fundamentals → Differentiation → Use Case → Value-Add.
Students run every asset class — and eventually every decision — through the same four questions. By the capstone, the test isn’t whether they know it; it’s whether they can teach it to someone at home.
Two voices
S3QUOYAH and W3LLZY.
S3QUOYAH carries the authoritative instructional voice; W3LLZY is the near-peer voice of a recent graduate. Two registers, one curriculum — so the material lands with the student who wants authority and the one who wants someone who just sat in that seat.
Guardrails
What this course will never do.
- ·No live trading, no wallet creation, no transactions of any kind — the curriculum is conceptual only.
- ·Digital-asset content is historical and analogical: students study the 2022 UST/Terra collapse as a case study in what fails; nothing is ever framed as something to buy.
- ·No consumer financial products or platforms are named in student-facing materials.
- ·The course teaches judgment, not picks. It never gives financial advice.
What a unit ships with
A complete package, on day one.
Each unit arrives as a complete package: daily lesson plans, a teen-facing student workbook (not a worksheet packet), an instructor guide with timing and answer keys, a pre/post growth assessment, a state standards alignment matrix, and a teacher projection deck. Reviewers receive a numbered package cover with reading order.