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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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Choosing how to save
Elementary school (4-5)

  • Writing about saving

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students discuss useful savings habits and then write an expository, persuasive, or narrative paragraph about saving.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Creating a song about saving

    Updated

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

    Students write and sing a song about saving money

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Executive function

  • Understanding our money choices

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students discuss and reflect on how they think and feel about money and how the people in their lives help shape those thoughts and feelings.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save), Spend (Buying things)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

    • Financial habits and norms

  • Building savings habits

    Updated

    Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)

    Students discuss useful savings habits and then write captions for a comic strip about saving money.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save), Spend (Buying things)
    Activity duration:
    45-60 minutes

    Building block

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

  • Bouncing ball spending game

    Updated

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

    Students play a game to explore how they make choices about money and how people in their lives can influence those choices.

    Key information

    Topic:
    Save and invest (Choosing how to save), Spend (Buying things)
    Activity duration:
    15-20 minutes

    Building block

    • 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.