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Financial Literacy Teaching Resources
Explore classroom-ready lessons, worksheets, simulations, videos, and teaching tools for banking, budgeting, credit, taxes, money math, careers, and real-world financial skills.
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Back to School · First Week
Everything for the first week of a money class
Icebreakers that open a money conversation without asking students about their own household, two back-to-school spending lessons, a free Course Diagnostic that reports unit by unit so it gives you a teaching order rather than a grade, and posters and a word wall worth putting up before students arrive. Every card on the page says whether it is free or included with a membership.
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Featured Lessons
Classroom-ready financial literacy lessons
Start with classroom-ready financial literacy lessons, worksheets, simulations, and video-based activities selected for teachers and students.
Budgeting · Grades 9–12
First Paycheck, Real Choices Lesson
Help students make smart money decisions with their first paycheck using this premium budgeting activity with worksheet, teacher guide, and answer key.
View LessonBanking · Multi-Level
Checking Account Simulation Activity
Give students hands-on practice with a real checking account simulation — writing checks, making deposits, and balancing a register.
View LessonCredit · Grades 9–12
Credit Card Minimum Payment Trap Lesson
Help students understand how credit card minimum payments, interest, and payoff time work with a classroom-ready video lesson and printable worksheet.
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New · Classroom Platform
Bring money to life with MI Classroom
A real online bank your students run, plus hands-on interactive lessons. Students join with a class code; a teacher Full Membership is required to create and run the class.
Start HereHow MI Classroom WorksOne teacher account, one class, one class code. Sign in with your membership, create a class, and hand students a code — no student emails and no passwords to lose.See how it works →
Online Bank
MI Classroom Bank
Each student gets their own account and balance. They get paid, save, and pay bills in a safe, teacher-controlled simulation. A classroom economy is optional.
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Play & Learn
Interactive Lessons
Hands-on money games for grades 1–12 — make change, build a budget, learn credit, and more.
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Classroom Simulations
Let students practice money decisions
Five teacher-ready simulations for grades 6–12. Students budget, bank, invest, and plan with fictional practice money — then see what their decisions cost them. Assign to a class and review every student’s results.
- Life Budget Simulator
- Banking Simulator
- Beginner Investing Challenge
- MI Investing Simulator
- MI Brokerage Simulator
- Budget Planner
For Business & CTE Teachers
Accounting, marketing, customer service, keyboarding, business law and business communications — every high school business course mapped to the lessons, worksheets and printable forms already on this site.
Grade-Level Pathways
Teach Money Skills by Grade Level
Browse K–12 financial literacy pathways — sequenced lessons, teaching tools, and curriculum guides organized by grade band.
Free Teaching Tools
Make Custom Printable Worksheets in Seconds
Free money worksheet generators for every topic — each builds a fresh worksheet with random numbers and a built-in answer key, so every student can get a different one.
Classroom Curriculum
Browse the Financial Literacy Curriculum
Ten 5-day classroom units covering banking, budgeting, saving, careers, taxes, credit, renting, insurance, payments & fraud, and investing — each with a free printable pacing guide.
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Back to School
First-week money activities, back-to-school spending lessons, a free course diagnostic, and printables to put up before students arrive.
Donating & Charities
Why people give, how charities and non-profits work, fundraising, civic responsibility, and human rights.
Housing
Renting and buying a home — leases, down payments, mortgages, and what it all costs.
Consumer Math
Shopping, receipts, tipping, unit price, and the everyday math of spending money.
Business Math
Markup and discount, commission and payroll, interest, invoices, and profit and loss.
Play Money
Free printable bills and coins to cut out for classroom stores, pretend shopping, and hands-on practice.
Counting Money
Identifying coins and bills, skip counting, and counting mixed coins and bills to a total.
Making Change
Counting up from the price, subtracting to find the difference, and the next-dollar-up strategy.
Banking
Bank accounts, saving, checks, debit cards, online banking, and interest.
Budgeting
Income, expenses, needs vs. wants, paychecks, and personal budget planning.
Credit
Credit scores, credit cards, APR, borrowing, and responsible credit use.
Money Math
Making change, fractions, percentages, and consumer math.
Taxes
W-4s, W-2s, sales tax, income tax, and real-world tax practice.
Career Readiness
Career exploration, job applications, resumes, interviews, and workplace skills.
Customer Service
A 10-lesson customer service unit — customer needs, difficult customers, complaints, and phone and written service.
Life Skills
Everyday money decisions, consumer skills, and financial independence.
Investing
Saving, stocks, bonds, and an introduction to investing for students.
Insurance
Car, renters, and homeowners insurance, premiums, deductibles, and managing risk.
Economics
Supply and demand, opportunity cost, and goods and services.
Classroom Economy
Classroom jobs, paydays, a class store, and savings goals that turn economics into hands-on practice.
Entrepreneurship
Marketing, advertising, starting a business, production, and measuring profit.
Accounting
The accounting equation, GAAP concepts, transaction analysis, and the accounting cycle.
Business Writing
Business letters, professional writing, persuasion, and effective communication.
Printables
Pay stub, lease and bill reading packs, sorting cards, posters, games, play money, and classroom forms.
Paying for College
Student loans, FAFSA and financial aid, 529 savings plans, and building a realistic college budget.
For Your Students
A money site your students can use on their own
Money Basically speaks directly to teens and young adults. Short videos, step-by-step guides for money firsts like a first job, paying for college, a first credit card, and moving out, plain-English explanations of money words, and calculators. Share it for homework, extra practice, or life after graduation.
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Worksheets
Printable, classroom-ready student activities with defined tasks and answers.
Lesson Plans
Structured lessons with objectives, step-by-step instructions, and discussion prompts.
Simulations
Hands-on classroom activities — checking accounts, budgets, real-world scenarios.
Videos
Short instructional videos for classroom or independent student use.
Printable Activities
Quick classroom activities, registers, charts, and ready-to-print pages.
Teaching Tools
Free interactive worksheet generators — make custom printable money worksheets with answer keys in seconds.
Tests & Assessments
Free pre-tests and a whole-course diagnostic, plus unit quizzes, final exams and answer keys.
Games & Activities
Interactive money games students play in the browser, plus print-and-play classroom games.
Bell Ringers & Warm-Ups
Five-minute money prompts to open class, with a routine that runs itself all term.
Slides & Presentations
Editable PowerPoint decks for personal finance topics, including one that is free to download.
Projects & Performance Tasks
Applied projects students hand in, with the rubrics and answer keys that mark them.
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