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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Reflecting on needs versus wants
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
By thinking about their own expenses, students explore how differentiating between needs and wants can inform daily financial decisions and rules to live by.
Spending scenarios
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students consider everyday spending decisions by working through real-world scenarios.
Preparing to pay for education after high school
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
After brainstorming ways to save for education after high school, students create an interactive graphic organizer that highlights ways to pay for postsecondary education.
Saving and investing card game
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students play a game to learn the difference between saving and investing and explore when to save or invest.
Creating a savings first aid kit
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students learn the importance of developing an emergency savings fund to deal with unexpected challenges and unplanned expenses.
Bouncing ball budgets
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Through an interactive game, students share spending decisions they’ve made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
Saving each payday
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students use a real-world simulation to learn how saving a little money each payday can be a successful strategy for saving.
Analyzing budgets
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students analyze case studies and apply the 50-30-20 rule of budgeting.
Examining elements of a paycheck
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
Students review a sample pay stub to understand the real-world effect of taxes and deductions on the amount of money workers take home.
Turning hobbies into earnings
Ideal for: Middle school (6-8)
After learning about the term “gig economy,” students brainstorm a list of fun hobbies or activities they enjoy doing that could be turned into money-making opportunities.