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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Protecting yourself as a consumer
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students research consumer rights to respond to real-life scenarios that demonstrate the importance of consumer protection laws.
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.
Understanding how insurance works: A case study about Lucy
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students read about how insurance works and then review a case study to see how insurance choices can affect personal finances for a young adult in a rural area.
Exploring types of insurance
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students investigate different types of insurance and determine which types they will most likely use in their lifetimes.
Creating an insurance commercial
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students demonstrate their understanding of how insurance minimizes financial risk by creating a commercial that features a specific type of insurance product.
Illustrating insurance concepts
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students illustrate their understanding of insurance by creating a poster depicting key insurance concepts.
Analyzing auto insurance scenarios
Ideal for: High school (11-12)
Students use real-world scenarios to explore how people’s auto insurance coverage choices can affect them financially when unexpected events happen.
Reading about insurance
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
By analyzing a text about insurance, students learn ways they can protect themselves from risk and avoid high costs when something goes wrong.
Understanding how insurance works: A case study about Omar
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students read about how insurance works, then review a case study to see how insurance choices can affect personal finances for a young adult in a city.
Investigating types of fraud and identity theft
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students identify different types of fraud and identity theft in real-world scenarios.