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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Picturing what you’re saving for
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students draw pictures of a savings goal and discuss the importance of saving money over time.
Singing a song about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students discuss the importance of saving money and sing a song about saving.
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.
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.
Experimenting with saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students listen to or read a fable and then do a science experiment to learn how saving a little over a long time can add up.
Saving for this or that
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students vote with their feet as they choose between two things they could save for and then reflect on the importance of setting goals for saving.