Financial Literacy Courses
Our repository of financial literacy curriculum/courses helps you learn advanced topics in a structured, gamification, or comic format.
Financial Literacy Courses
K-12 Real Life Digital Curriculum
Provides best-practice methods for increasing financial literacy and education.
– Everfi
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.
– TD Bank
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.
– Practical Money Skills
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.
– InCharge Debt Solutions
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 they created technology skills and financial literacy curricula that are free for all to use.
– PwC
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.
– FiCycle
Professional Development Webinars
This resource has over 300 on-demand webinars of free professional development training.
– The Council for Economic Education
Evaluation Toolkit
Design simple, effective evaluations that make it easy to demonstrate learning and show the value of your personal finance curriculum.
– National Endowment for Financial Education
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.
– Credit.org
Saving and Investing for Teachers
This site provides information for teachers investing for themselves and their families. It includes tips on saving, investing, and retirement.
– Investor.gov
Hands on Banking
The Wells Fargo Hands on Banking financial education program contains all the tools you need to help you become financially savvy, and learn more about money management and take charge of your financial future.
– Wells Fargo
Gamification Based Learning
Arcade Games
These free online games provide the hooks to get students engaged in decision-making around paying for college, budgeting, investing, and more.
– Next Gen Personal Finance
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.
– Financial Football
Using Games in the Classroom
Games can be powerful teaching tools. It’s long been understood that young children learn a lot through play.
– Practical Money Skills
Learn From Your Favorite Comic Book Characters
Avengers: Saving the Day
Join the Avengers and a special guest in this exciting educational comic about saving money and saving the day. The heroes team up to defeat Mole Man and his evil army, all while learning important financial skills. The action-packed comic features a budgeting worksheet, finance terms and more.
– Visa (Practical Money Skills) and Marvel
The Old Man Monetary
Comic Book 3 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.
– RBI
Raju and the Magical Goat
Comic Book 5 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.
– RBI
Money Kumar and Caring for Your Currency
Comic Book 6 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.
– RBI
Raju and the Friendly ATM
Comic Book 7 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.
– RBI
Raju and the Debit Card
Comic Book 8 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.
– RBI
