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Whether you need full lesson plans or simple activities to supplement instruction, you'll find everything you need from various providers below.

K-12 Real Life Digital Curriculum

Provides best-practice methods for increasing financial literacy and education.

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US Financial Literacy and Education Commission

Teacher Resource Library

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers financial literacy lessons, activities, e-books, and more for grades Pre-k through College.

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Money Smart Digital Toolkit

The FDIC is an independent agency created to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system. It provides lessons plans from Pre-k through 12th grade.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Lesson Plans for Pre-K - College

Visa's Practical Money Skills offers lesson plans for students of all ages — from preschoolers and elementary school students to teens and college students. They also offer course materials for students with special needs.

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Practical Money Skills

Financial Fitness for Life

Financial Fitness for Life® (FFFL) provides high-quality instructional materials for use with students from kindergarten to grade 12.

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The Council for Economic Education

Ficycle Lessons

FiCycle’s free lessons cover a range of timely topics, from stock market trends to the difference between wealth and cash. Teachers can use the materials for standalone classroom sessions that introduce learners to the intersection between math and finance, or in combination with the FiCycle Math curriculum.

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FiCycle

Access Your Potential

Access Your Potential® is focused on equipping students with the technology, financial and career skills they need to succeed. That's why we've created technology skills and financial literacy curricula that are free for all to use.

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PwC

Arcade Games

These free online games provide the hooks to get students engaged in decision-making around paying for college, budgeting, investing, and more.

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Next Gen Personal Finance

ID Theft and Account Fraud

This training module covers steps to prevent ID theft, or if you are a victim, to clear up the problems created by ID theft and to lessen its impact on your life.

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Consumer Action

Financial Football

Visa and the National Football League have teamed up to help teach financial concepts with Financial Football, a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students while teaching them money management skills.

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Financial Football

Banzai Courses

Help them learn by doing. In Banzai, your students will pay rent, work jobs, and chafe over taxes. It's a virtual world of decision making. Click on your state to find out how Banzai aligns with your curriculum.

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Banzai!

Navigating Financial Decisions

FinEDge is a education program for high schoolers based on learning science, behavioral change research, and the latest information on effective design of formal and informal financial education experiences.

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University of Chicago

Mind Your Own Budget: The Apartment

Mind Your Own Budget provides a fun and hands-on way for students to build financial literacy, and strategically apply that knowledge to solve a variety of financial challenges.

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University of Oklahoma

Rich Kid, Smart Kid

In this collection of online games, three children—Ima, Jesse, and Reno—struggle with real-life scenarios, such as running an ice-cream stand, raising money for a personal goal, allocating earned money to different needs. Games are leveled for age groups from kindergarten to high school.

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The Rich Dad Company

Biz Kid$

Biz Kid$ is a national financial literacy initiative based on the Emmy Award-winning public television series where kids teach kids about money and business. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

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Khan Academy

TD Bank WOW! Zone

The TD Bank WOW! Zone Financial Education Resources are free and designed to help K–12 educators teach children and teens about money in an easy, simple way.

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TD Bank

Philadelphia Fed Lesson Plans

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia focuses on teaching the knowledge and skills that help people make sound financial decisions. They offer resources for K–12 teachers and consumers.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

United States Mint Coin Classroom

US Mint Coin Classroom offers various creative, explorative, and investigative lesson plans to help students learn age appropriate money concepts.

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United States Mint

Financial Literacy for High School Students

This 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization offers 14 lesson plans, which includes objectives, slides, worksheets and more. Lessons range from the art of budgeting to consumer privacy.

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InCharge Debt Solutions

Fin Lit Resources

EconEdLink is the highly-rated go-to-place for K-12 economics and personal finance resources, providing high-quality lesson plans, videos, assessments, activities, professional development webinars, and more for educators.

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econedlink

Finance in the Classroom

Offers lesson plans and activities on finance for K-12 teachers and parents.

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Finance in the Classroom

Take Charge Today

A program and curriculum with a decision-based approach to personal finance. Formerly Family Economics & Financial Education, Take Charge Today provides a consistent framework for thinking through financial choices in order to improve well-being.

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University of Arizona

The Hows of Taxes

Understanding Taxes offers 38 lesson plans. Detailed lesson plans guide your instruction from the introduction of a given tax concept, through its development, to the lesson conclusion.

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IRS.gov

Curriculum Units

Browse the Unit library to find lessons, interactives, assessments and other resources for engaging students with quality personal finance curriculum.

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Next Gen Personal Finance

Shady Sam: Loan Shark

Shady Sam is a browser game made for teens, but really something every American should play. It teaches the tricks of loan terms by having you play as a shady lender. The goal of the game: issue loans that make your company the most money.

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Shady Sam

Financial Literacy Curriculum & Presentation Resources

Presentations, Online Learning & Ongoing Education Program Package.

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National Financial Educators Council

Products for Teachers

Helping kids get smart about money through curriculum, lessons, games, and simulations.

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Money Savvy Generation

Khan Academy - Personal Finance

This course is built around video lectures, short readings, interactive quizzes, and comment threads. There are nine courses covering the essentials. A typical course is broken down into units containing lessons containing all the materials and resources you'll need.

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Khan Academy

Financial Football

Visa and the National Football League have teamed up to create Financial Football, a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students while teaching them personal finance skills. The latest release features 3D graphics and game-changing opportunities with audibles, blitzes and long yardage plays.

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NFL & Visa

Hands on Banking

The award-winning financial education program, available in English and Spanish, offers free non-commercial content — lesson plans, instructor guides, student courses, activities, lessons, quizzes and much more.

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Hands on Banking

Do you teach financial literacy or are you looking to incorporate it into your lessons? Below you'll find professional development resources as well as information on how to invest & save for retirement.

Do you teach financial literacy or are you looking to incorporate it into your lessons? Below you'll find professional development resources as well as information on how to invest & save for retirement.

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Lesson Plans

Whether you need full lesson plans or simple activities to supplement instruction, you'll find everything you need from various providers below.