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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Discovering the benefits of investing early
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students use an online calculator and answer questions to learn about the value of investing early.
Playing an investment game
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students work in groups to explore real-world scenarios that can affect stock investments.
Comparing stock investments
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students learn how calculating capital gains and capital losses can help them evaluate stock investments.
Bouncing ball money choices
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8), High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students play a game to share how they think and feel about money.
Understanding who shapes your money decisions
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8), High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students read a handout and then identify how both they and the people in their lives make choices about money.
Playing a credit and debit game
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students play a game to practice and explore positive credit and debit card behaviors.
Cosigning loans and sharing credit
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students research credit and analyze scenarios on sharing credit cards and cosigning loans.
Differentiating between secured and unsecured loans
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students explore characteristics of secured or unsecured types of credit by playing a sorting game.
Distinguishing between credit myths and realities
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students analyze and make judgments about credit and borrowing statements to better understand the reality of debt.
Role-playing borrowing and lending
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students take on the role of a borrower or a lender to pose questions, apply formulas to calculate interest, and evaluate data to inform borrowing and lending decisions.