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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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.
Exploring ways to protect what’s important to us
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students draw a picture and answer open-ended questions based on a story about protecting ourselves and our property.
Bouncing ball protection game
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
In a circle time activity, students answer questions about how we protect ourselves, our money, and our property.
Protecting what’s important
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students analyze a picture and identify characters that are protecting something.
Making smart money trades
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a story about making money trades and determine whether the values of different groups of coins and paper money are equal or unequal.
Starting small and saving up
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students read a story about characters who save for something special and then create their own savings goal.
Puzzling out your savings future
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Using an origami children’s puzzle, students will choose an item, a time frame, and a dollar amount to determine how long they need to save before they can buy that item.
Learning to save with Money Monsters
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a story about saving money and then apply their learning using paper puppets.
Coloring your savings
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students color pictures of dollar bills to show how much they’d need to save to buy different items.
Saving for now and later
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students learn about the importance of saving, explore the difference between short-term and long-term goals, and then set their own savings goals.