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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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.
Building savings habits
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss useful savings habits and then write captions for a comic strip about saving money.
Flying into spending and saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students fly a paper airplane they’ve created to targets that represent amounts of money saved or spent and track their results.
Bringing your own bag
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students read a short story and consider the benefits of making choices that are cost-effective.
Exploring needs and wants
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students review pictures of items and decide which ones are needs and which are wants.