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 entrepreneurship
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students read a book about starting a business, think of an idea for a product they can create or improve, and design a plan for selling it.
Drawing your own business comic strip
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students explore entrepreneurship by reading a story about entrepreneurs and drawing a comic strip about starting a business.
Exploring opportunity costs
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students read a book about the opportunity costs of starting a business, play a fill-in-the-blank game, and discuss things they could give up so they can have something else.
Playing a business game
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students read a book about starting a business and then play a game to explore things that can happen when you run a business.
Making spending choices
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a Money Monster story about getting a pet and then discuss spending choices.
Practicing giving
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a story about giving and then practice giving to another student.
Learning about giving with Money Monsters
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a story about giving money and then apply their learning using paper puppets.
Sharing a story about borrowing
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students read a story about Money Monsters who are learning to be good borrowers.
Being a thankful borrower
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a Money Monster story about borrowing things and then create a “thank you” card for someone they have borrowed something from.
Borrowing and lending money
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
After learning what it means to be a responsible borrower or lender, students write their own ending to a short story about borrowing and lending money.