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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Evaluating savings scenarios
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
By analyzing real-world scenarios, students practice making informed decisions about savings tools to meet financial situations and needs.
Setting a SMART savings goal
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students discuss short-term and long-term goals and what makes a goal SMART. They then create their own short-term savings goal and make an action plan to meet that goal.
Storing my savings
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students read descriptions of common places to store their money and weigh the benefits and risks of each to decide which one(s) fit their financial goals.
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.
Coloring your savings
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students color pictures of dollar bills to show how much they’d need to save to buy different items.