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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Exploring saving and spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game where they earn and spend money to learn how our choices affect how we’re able to save.
Sharing a story about borrowing
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students read a story about Money Monsters who are learning to be good borrowers.
Being a thankful borrower
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a Money Monster story about borrowing things and then create a “thank you” card for someone they have borrowed something from.
Borrowing or buying?
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students learn the difference between borrowing and buying things and then play a game where they sit or stand to distinguish between borrowing or buying.
Sequencing a story about borrowing
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students listen to a story about borrowing and then sequence picture cards so they can use them to retell the story.