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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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Making money
Elementary school (4-5)

  • Graphing ways to make money

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    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students discuss ways young people can earn money and complete a math and graphing exercise to apply their knowledge.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Earn (Making money)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial habits and norms

  • Choosing a career

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    Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)

    Students identify their interests and talents after reading a story about characters who explore careers connected to things they like to do.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Earn (Making money)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial habits and norms

  • Solving a career mystery

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students listen to clues about different jobs and work in teams to guess the job title.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Earn (Making money)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Comparing careers and income

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students compare education requirements and typical incomes for different careers.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Earn (Making money)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Matching interests and talents to careers

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students match two people’s interests and talents to ideal careers and then write about their own interests, talents, and possible career choices.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Earn (Making money)
    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.