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Interested in helping your child learn about financial literacy at home but not sure how to do it? Or are you trying to figure out how to budget for your child's education? The resources below can help with these topics and more.

Lessons & Activites

Ready to help your child learn about personal finance? First test your economic literacy with these twenty multiple-choice questions!

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Council for Economic Education

Money Smart

Discussing money early in a child’s life helps to build a strong foundation for healthy financial habits in the future- the FDIC's Money Smart program includes games, podcasts, and parents/caregiver guides to help your children build knowledge around personal finance.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Tips for Teaching Financial Literacy at Home

Provides lessons broken into some broad categories: Earning Money, Spending Money, Saving Money, Borrowing Money, and Security. These categories will also vary depending on the age group of your children.

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Credit.org

Home/Community Activities

Help your students take a step in the direction of cash managing success. Not only will you help them gain a strong foundation for handling their own personal finances, you will learn to love the responsibility and power that goes with it.

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Finance in the Classroom

Money As You Grow

No need to be a money expert—the tips and activities here can help your children’s money skills, habits, and attitudes grow.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Kids & Money Guide

Teach kids to manage their finances with this guide from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Financial Fitness for Life

Research shows that students learn a considerable amount of their economic decision making outside of the classroom. These Parent Guides contain fun activities that parents and children can do together to enhance learning personal financial principles and skills.

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Council for Economic Education

Comprehensive Financial Education Program for Kids

An immersive & interactive kids financial literacy program for educators & parents.

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National Financial Educators Council

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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Biz Kid$

Topics for Talk Challenge

How well and how often do you work money management topics into daily conversations with your kids? Here's a chance to evaluate your efforts. Don't avoid talking about money just because kids are young.

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the mint

Banzai Courses

The Banzai Courses use real-life scenarios to demonstrate the power of good financial planning. For kids, teens, and young adults, these courses teach basic and advanced financial concepts.

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Alive Credit Union

Money Wise Children: Learning by Doing

Provides parent general development guidelines to teach their children about money.

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University of Nebraska

Family-At-Home Financial Fun Pack

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Council for Economic Education

Financial Literacy Apps for Kids

Provides 10 apps that can help you teach your kids to save and spend wisely.

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Kiplinger

Coin Activities

Various creative, explorative, and investigative at-home activities to help children learn age appropriate money concepts.

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United States Mint

How to Teach Kids About Money

Teaching kids about money when they’re young lays the foundation for responsible money management later in life. Children whose parents emphasize the importance of financial literacy and encourage them to spend and save thoughtfully develop a healthy perspective on money.

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Annuity.org

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

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

Lessons and Activities

Money as you grow

Saving for Education

Research and Compare 529 Plans

This site provides information about 529 plans which are tax-advantaged savings plans to assist with paying for college.

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Saving for College

Financial Aid for Students

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USA.gov

College Savings Calculator

Use this calculator to help develop or fine-tune your education savings plan.

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360 Degrees of Financial Literacy

Money As You Grow

No need to be a money expert—the tips and activities here can help your children’s money skills, habits, and attitudes grow.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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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For Parents and Guardians

Interested in helping your child learn about financial literacy at home but not sure how to do it? Or are you trying to figure out how to budget for your child's education? The resources below can help with these topics and more.

Lessons & Activites

Saving for Education