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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Giving to a cause
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students create a poster to persuade others to support a cause helping an imaginary community in need.
Comparing higher education choices
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8), High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students explore higher education options by comparing similarities and differences between two colleges near where they live.
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.
Meeting your future self
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students imagine their lives in 10 years and write a fill-in-the-blank letter from their future selves to their current selves.
Matching interests and talents to careers
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students match two people’s interests and talents to ideal careers and then write about their own interests, talents, and possible career choices.
Starting your own business
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students practice being entrepreneurs by thinking of businesses they might start based on their own ideas, talents, or passions.
Graphing ways to make money
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss ways young people can earn money and complete a math and graphing exercise to apply their knowledge.
Choosing a career
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students identify their interests and talents after reading a story about characters who explore careers connected to things they like to do.
Comparing careers and income
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students compare education requirements and typical incomes for different careers.
Bouncing ball money choices
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8), High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students play a game to share how they think and feel about money.