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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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Showing 19 matches out of 274 activities

Showing 19 matches out of 274 activities

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Managing risk
Using insurance
High school (9-10)
High school (11-12)

  • Protecting yourself as a consumer

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Preventing fraud and identity theft)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Playing a banking fact and fiction game

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Banking options, Choosing how to save), Protect (Managing risk), Borrow (Getting loans)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Understanding how insurance works: A case study about Lucy

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Exploring types of insurance

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Creating an insurance commercial

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    75-90 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Illustrating insurance concepts

    Updated

    Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)

    Students illustrate their understanding of insurance by creating a poster depicting key insurance concepts.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial habits and norms

  • Analyzing auto insurance scenarios

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Reading about insurance

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Understanding how insurance works: A case study about Omar

    Updated

    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.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Using insurance)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function
    • Financial knowledge and decision-making skills

  • Investigating types of fraud and identity theft

    Updated

    Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)

    Students identify different types of fraud and identity theft in real-world scenarios.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Protect (Managing risk, Preventing fraud and identity theft)
    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.