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 redlining
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students read a handout about the practice of redlining and answer questions about its impact on individuals and communities.
Sonya explains the Military Lending Act
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure, explore the Military Lending Act (MLA), and use a loan calculator to understand the impacts of high-interest loans.
Angela learns about the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure and answer questions about the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
Angela builds her credit
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure, read a handout, and answer questions about how to build good credit.
Cruz buys a car
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure and answer questions about the challenges of buying a car.
Dirk makes smart spending choices
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure about smart spending practices for new servicemembers and then work as a group to write a short, persuasive speech about how to make smart spending choices.
Miya builds her wealth
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students experience an interactive adventure in how to build wealth, analyze needs and wants, explore investing, and reflect on how they can control their spending in the future.
Xavier saves his finances
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students participate in an interactive adventure on the importance of discipline in both financial and military missions and read about managing and limiting debt.
Banking basics card game
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students play a game to learn about common banking products and services and to consider which ones they might use now and in the future.
Playing a banking fact and fiction game
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students listen to statements about banking and then walk to one side of the room or the other if they think the statement is fact or fiction.