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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Playing career charades
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3)
Students play a game of charades to explore different careers.
Protecting what’s important
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students analyze a picture and identify characters that are protecting something.
Singing a song about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students discuss the importance of saving money and sing a song about saving.
Starting your own business
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students practice being entrepreneurs by thinking of businesses they might start based on their own ideas, talents, or passions.
Understanding how much student debt you can afford
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students calculate how much they can afford in monthly student loan payments based on what their salary might be after graduating from college or another post-secondary institution.
Understanding our money choices
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss and reflect on how they think and feel about money and how the people in their lives help shape those thoughts and feelings.
Using a student loan calculator
Ideal for: High school (9-10), High school (11-12)
Students use a student loan calculator to calculate monthly loan payments and how much they can save on total loan costs by paying a little extra each month.
Choosing a career
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students identify their interests and talents after reading a story about characters who explore careers connected to things they like to do.
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.
Comparing careers and income
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students compare education requirements and typical incomes for different careers.