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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 credit
High school (9-10)
High school (11-12)

  • Cruz buys a car

    Updated

    Ideal for: High school (11-12)

    Students experience an interactive adventure and answer questions about the challenges of buying a car.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Spend (Budgeting, Buying things), Borrow (Getting loans, Managing credit)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Dirk avoids five financial disasters

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    Ideal for: High school (11-12)

    Students experience an interactive adventure about financial disasters that can happen to new servicemembers then work as a group to write a short, persuasive speech about how to avoid those disasters.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Building emergency savings), Spend (Budgeting, Buying things), Borrow (Managing credit)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Miya builds her wealth

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save, Investing), Spend (Budgeting, Buying things), Borrow (Managing credit)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Xavier saves his finances

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Spend (Budgeting, Buying things), Borrow (Managing credit)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Angela builds her credit

    Updated

    Ideal for: High school (11-12)

    Students experience an interactive adventure, read a handout, and answer questions about how to build good credit.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Spend (Buying things), Borrow (Managing credit)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial habits and norms
    • 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.