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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Paying bills
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students explore different payment methods while using a Venn diagram.
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.
Protecting yourself against risk
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
After reviewing a handout about insurance, students will match types of insurance to the scenarios they cover.
Playing an insurance game
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students play a game to explore types of insurance and how they help protect people.
Protecting your identity online
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students answer true-or-false questions about safe online behaviors and consider ways to protect themselves online.
Choosing the best cell phone plan for you
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students research the features and costs of cell phones and cell phone plans and use a decision matrix to compare options and determine the best one for their needs, wants, and budget.
Learning about budgets
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students learn about budgeting rules and then apply their understanding in an interactive budgeting activity.
Contrasting long-term and short-term savings goals
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students learn the difference between short-term and long-term savings goals and apply their knowledge in an exercise-oriented game.
Using idioms to promote saving
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students explore idioms, which are expressions that use figurative speech, to better understand financial concepts like saving and earning.
Creating a buying plan
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students practice creating a buying plan and apply this strategy to provide buying advice to others.