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

Khan Academy: Personal Finance

Khan Academy and Bank of America have created a personal finance course series with quizzes, videos, etc.

– Khan Academy

Money Smart Digital Toolkit

FDIC has created lesson plans targeted for all grades between Pre-K and 12th.

– FDIC

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

Jan Dhan Shiksha

PPTs and Presentations created alongside India’s Jan Dhan program, teaching basics of financial literacy topics, available in 10 languages.

– Jan Dhan

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

Raju and the Money Tree

Comic Book 1 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series, available in 13 languages.

– RBI

Money Kumar and the Monetary Policy

Comic Book 2 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.

– RBI

The Old Man Monetary

Comic Book 3 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.

– RBI

Raju and the Skyladder

Comic Book 4 in the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Literacy comic books series.

– RBI and Jan Dhan

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

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