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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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Managing risk
Middle school (6-8)

  • Playing an insurance matching game

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    Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)

    Students play a game to demonstrate their understanding of how insurance reduces financial risk.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial habits and norms
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Exploring government agencies

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    Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)

    Students read about government agencies and then try to match real-world scenarios to the agencies that offer related protections and services.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Protecting your home

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    Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)

    Students act out scenarios and insert key vocabulary words into an insurance scenario to become familiar with how renter’s and homeowner’s insurance can help people manage expenses related to unexpected troubles that may happen.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Protecting yourself against risk

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    Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)

    After reviewing a handout about insurance, students will match types of insurance to the scenarios they cover.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk)
    Activity duration:
    15-20 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial habits and norms
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Creating a poster about insurance

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    Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)

    Students explore different types of insurance and then create a poster about the importance of insurance.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills
Activities align with the My Money Five principles introduced by the statutorily created federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission.