Slides & Presentations
Financial Literacy Slides & PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers
Editable personal finance presentations, in two kinds. The free 9-slide budgeting lesson is written to project at a class; the 9-slide deck that comes with each of the 10 curriculum units is a teaching plan for the front of the room — the week’s arc, one slide per day.
Budgeting Basics — a complete lesson, free to download
Budgeting Basics Free
A standalone budgeting lesson for grades 7–12, built to fill one class period. It teaches what a budget is, the difference between needs and wants, the difference between fixed and variable expenses, and how one month looks written down on a single page.
9 slides, in this order:
- Warm-up
- What a budget is
- Needs and wants
- Fixed and variable
- One month on one page
- Exit ticket
Every definition on it is the same wording as the free vocabulary sheets in the curriculum, so a class that goes on to a full unit meets no contradictions. The worked example uses invented figures, labeled as such on the slide, so nothing on it can go out of date.
Download Budgeting Basics (.pptx) No login and no email address — the file downloads straight away. Editable in PowerPoint: a plain .pptx with no macros, no linked files and no embedded media.
Above: the fifth slide of the free deck. The class builds
one month together, and the number left over at the end is the argument.
An editable deck for every unit of the course
What you are downloading
Each unit of the Money Instructor personal finance course comes with its own 9-slide presentation — 90 slides across the 10 units. Each one is a plan for the week, in slide form: a title slide, the unit at a glance, the learning objectives, one slide per teaching day carrying that day’s objective and in-class sequence, and a closing slide covering the assessments and the unit project. They are built to teach from and to project, but they are not a slide-by-slide lecture — the worked examples and the reading students do live in the student packet.
All 10 are standard editable .pptx files, 16:9, and are part of Full Membership along with the rest of each unit’s teacher kit.
Banking & Checking
- Day 1What banks do and types of accounts
- Day 2Checks, check writing and check registers
- Day 3Debit cards, ATMs and online banking
- Day 4Checking Account Simulation (featured lesson)
- Day 5Saving habits and unit wrap-up
Budgeting & First Paycheck
- Day 1What a budget is and why it matters
- Day 2Needs vs. wants + fixed and variable expenses
- Day 3What a paycheck is and how to read a pay stub
- Day 4First Paycheck, Real Choices (applied budgeting)
- Day 5Spending choices, financial goals, and spending log
Saving & Emergency Funds
- Day 1What saving is and why it is hard
- Day 2How savings grow: simple and compound interest
- Day 3Emergency funds: what breaks, and what it costs
- Day 4Saving & Compound Interest (featured lesson)
- Day 5Where to keep it, and your own saving plan
Careers & Paying for Education
- Day 1What a career is, and what careers require
- Day 2Getting hired: application, résumé, interview
- Day 3What the work pays: hours, wages, total compensation
- Day 4Read a Financial Aid Award Letter (featured lesson)
- Day 5What your path costs, and how you would pay for it
Taxes & First Filing
- Day 1The money that never reaches you
- Day 2The W-4: the guess you make on day one
- Day 3The W-2 and the rest of the paperwork
- Day 4The 1040: what you actually owed
- Day 5Settling up — and two students with the same tax
Credit & Borrowing
- Day 1What credit is and why it matters
- Day 2Credit cards vs. debit cards
- Day 3Credit scores and building credit
- Day 4APR, interest and the minimum payment trap
- Day 5Reading a statement and responsible borrowing
Renting & Major Purchases
- Day 1Where you’ll live: rent, buy, or something else
- Day 2Read the lease before you sign
- Day 3The cost to get in: move-in money
- Day 4The cost to stay in: rent plus the bills
- Day 5Major purchases: the car that costs more than its price
Insurance & Risk
- Day 1Who is paying if this goes wrong?
- Day 2What a policy actually is: four numbers
- Day 3What the trade costs
- Day 4The claim, and the two ways it is still not enough
- Day 5A year of things going wrong
Modern Payments, Scams & Fraud
- Day 1How money actually moves
- Day 2Same tap, different rules
- Day 3The rails with no undo
- Day 4The ask: why a scammer names the payment method
- Day 5Permission, and the slow leak
Investing & Long-Term Growth
- Day 1Which money can be invested at all?
- Day 2A box with two rules, and the one with money attached
- Day 3In the account is not invested
- Day 4What leaves without you deciding
- Day 5Three endings, same money
What the 10 decks cover
- Banking & Checking
- Budgeting & First Paycheck
- Saving & Emergency Funds
- Careers & Paying for Education
- Taxes & First Filing
- Credit & Borrowing
- Renting & Major Purchases
- Insurance & Risk
- Modern Payments, Scams & Fraud
- Investing & Long-Term Growth
Between them the decks span grades 6–12. Each one is written for its own unit’s band — the card for each deck above states which.
Five ways these decks earn their place
- Open a topicThe title and objectives slides give a class the shape of the week before any worksheet comes out — what they are about to learn and why it is going to matter to them.
- Run direct instructionEach day slide carries that day’s objective and the in-class sequence, so the deck doubles as the plan you are teaching from.
- Pair with the packetThe day slides name the student packet pages that go with them, so the projector and the paper on the desks stay in step.
- Stop and argueEvery day slide carries a callout — the misconception worth pushing on, or the place students reliably slip. Those are the moments to stop presenting and ask the room.
- Make it yoursEvery box is real, editable text. Change the wording, swap the figures for local ones, cut the days you are not teaching, or lift three slides into a deck of your own.
One thing these files do not have: speaker notes. The teaching detail lives in each unit’s teacher guide rather than under the slides, so if you want the script, that is where to look.
Where the deck sits in a unit
The presentation is one part of a unit, not the whole of it. Each unit ships the four pieces below, and they are built to be used together.
- The slide deckWhat the room looks at. 9 slides, editable.
- The teacher guideDay-by-day detail, answers and the notes behind each slide.
- The student packetWhat is on the desks — the activities the day slides point to.
- Quizzes and a projectA free pre-quiz, a post-quiz, a unit project and a final assessment.
The full picture of each unit — the five days, the free downloads and the member kit — is on the personal finance curriculum hub.
When you would rather they did something than watched something
A deck is the right tool for introducing an idea and the wrong one for practicing it. Money Instructor has two other formats for the days when the class needs to be doing the work rather than watching it, and neither of them requires anything you have downloaded here.
Financial literacy games and activities covers the print-and-play classroom games and the browser games students can play on their own devices. Classroom simulations covers the longer ones — a class banking system, a budget simulation, an investing challenge — that run over several periods.
The interactive activities live in Money Instructor Classroom, a separate free student-facing site. You do not need it to use any of the slide decks on this page, and the decks do not refer to it.