Find financial literacy activities
Find activities that can help you teach and nurture the building blocks of financial capability across the curriculum.
These classroom activities can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it’s easy to implement whether you’re an experienced personal finance teacher, integrating financial literacy into another subject area, or supplementing your existing financial education curriculum.
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Exploring saving and spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game where they earn and spend money to learn how our choices affect how we’re able to save.
Bouncing ball spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game to explore how they make choices about money and how people in their lives can influence those choices.
Understanding our money choices
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss and reflect on how they think and feel about money and how the people in their lives help shape those thoughts and feelings.
Comparing places to save money
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students compare saving money at home to saving money at a bank or credit union and then act out stories to explore which option they would choose.