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 saving and spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game where they earn and spend money to learn how our choices affect how we’re able to save.
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.
Using a buying plan
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students read a scenario and then practice creating a buying plan and comparison shopping for a computer.
Writing about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss useful savings habits and then write an expository, persuasive, or narrative paragraph about saving.
Creating a song about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students write and sing a song about saving money.