Digital games and activities to reinforce financial education concepts, from counting coins and totaling purchases to budgeting and economics, there’s something here for every age!  

• Digital Games and Activities for Students K-5
• Digital Games and Activities for Students 6-12

This resource package includes parent guides from financial education curriculums, as well as online resources for including children of any age in financial conversations and activities.

• K-12 Financial Education Parent Resources

Developing financial literacy in youth.

• FEPPP Financial Education Library and Spanish Bookshelves
  A collection of books with personal finance and economic themes, including titles available in Spanish, to discuss with your children.  Search your local library or click on a book cover for links to free video read aloud, discussion guides,
• CFPB's Talking about Money Choices, Big and Small
  As you talk to your kids about money, when you talk to them is less important than how you talk to them.  When you take into consideration where your children are in their financial development, you can talk to them about important events and build skills they’ll use later in life.

Developing financial literacy in adults.

• CENTS: Consumer Education and Training Services
  CENTS empowers people to improve their financial health by developing education and legal resources to help them prevent or overcome financial challenges.
• Credit Repair - How To
  Information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about how you can improve your creditworthiness for low or no-cost.
• Washington's Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) Financial Education, Money Topics, Credit, Investing, and Student Loans
• Debt Slapped for Parents
  To help parents plan for their children’s future higher education, CENTS has created the Don’t Get Slapped for Parents program.  It is a recorded PowerPoint that walks you through planning steps.  There’s also an Activity and Resource Guide. The Activity and Resource Guide are called Planning for Higher Education for Families Activity and Resource Guide. 
• DFI’s Guide to Home Loans
  DFI's Guide to Home Loans walks homebuyers through the complicated process of buying a home.
• DreamAhead
  Washington’s 529 College Investment Plan
• WA529 - Guaranteed Education Tuition Plan
  Washington’s 529 Prepaid College Tuition Plan

For more free resources, please visit the Open Educational Resources (OER) website. 

FEPPP Resource Packages

FEPPP has developed resource packages, available for download below, featuring free, high-quality, and culturally relevant financial education lessons, materials, and activities.

• FEPPP’s Financial Education Library
  A curated collection of children’s books with personal finance and economic themes! Click a book cover to find Lesson & Resource Guides with links to free video read alouds, as well as discussion guides and other no- or low-prep text-aligned lessons, materials, and more!
• FEPPP’s Financial Education Spanish Bookshelves
  Eight books available in English and Spanish to engage bilingual learners in personal finance topics! Click a cover to find links to English and Spanish video read alouds, and at least one equitably translated bilingual lesson or resource.
• Financial Education and Social Emotional Learning (K-5)
  This resource package exploring the natural connection between financial education and social emotional learning! Find K – 5 standards alignment, reference materials and classroom resources such as lessons that develop student’s decision-making (self-management) abilities.
• Financial Education for Special Populations (K-12)
  Find financial education curriculum, units, lessons, and other materials designed to meet the needs of Native youth, homeless youth, institutionalized youth, students receiving Special Education services, and migrant or dual language/MLL students in this resource package.
• Financial Education and Math (K-5)
  Explore how financial education can provide engaging, real-world problem-solving practice for elementary students. Resources include lessons, digital games, and implementation strategies appropriate for small groups.
• Financial Education Brain Breaks: K - 2 Activity Books
  This resource package contains links to four printable K – 2 personal finance activity books, as well as additional resources for educators and families.
• Financial Education Materials
  List of materials for educators.
• Financial Education: Credit and Debt Units, Lesson and Activities (9-12)
  A collection of foundational instructional materials related to credit scores, evaluating loans, and using credit. Developed with Special Populations students in mind, this resource package also contains information on co-signing/sharing credit, redlining, and student rights related to credit and credit scores.  

Free Curriculum and Programs

• CEE's EconEdLink Lessons
  Offers K-12 online economics teaching materials and lessons.
• Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) Financial Literacy Activities
  Find activities that can help you teach and nurture the building blocks of financial capability across the curriculum.
• Don't Get Debt Slapped
  This 8-lesson online curriculum was designed to empower high school students to gather important information so they can make an informed decision about what they do after high school and minimize debt.
• DFI's Right on the Money College Book
  Free informative workbook that helps young adults learn to manage their finances from the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI).
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Money Smart for Young Adults
  The FDIC's Money Smart for Young People series consists of four free curriculum products. Each age-appropriate curriculum includes lesson plans for educators along with guides for parents and caregivers.
• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
  Form that's submitted to, and processed by the U.S. Department of Education that analyzes each student's need analysis and electronically transmits the results to the financial aid offices of the schools you've listed on your application.
• Investopedia Stock Simulator
  Use this simulator to explore the stock market risk free! Invest any amount of digital money and pick any stocks to fill your portfolio. Watch them grow or lose money as they are in the actual stock market.
• Jump$tart's Reality Check
  Fill in the choices on the next page to see if you can afford your dream life.  You might be surprised at how much that life will cost.
• Minnesota Council on Economic Education (MCEE) Resources
  Free K-8 curriculums and repository of award-winning lessons.
• MoneySKILL
  Interactive personal course for middle school, high school, and college students using real-life simulations to help students learn to make informed financial decisions.
• Next Gen Personal Finance
  Supporting educators and empowering students.
• Practical Money Skills
  Free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. Web site includes K-College curriculum.
• University of Arizona's Take Charge Today
  Providing educators with ready-to-teach, activity-based lesson plans free of charge: A program and curriculum with a decision-based approach to personal finance. Formerly Family Economics & Financial Education, Take Charge Today provides a consistent framework for thinking through financial choices in order to improve well-being.

Curriculum and Programs

• Biz Kid$
  Links to the PBS series that teaches how to make and manage money including a newsletter, blog, clips from the show, and educational tools.
• DFI's Money Savvy Program
  Personal finance curriculums for Elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. Also Jump$tart and FEPPP teacher training information.
• Jump$tart Washington
  Jump$tart Washington is a nonprofit coalition created to promote the need for financial education in Washington State.
• Financial Beginnings Washington
  Financial Beginnings is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches individuals how to play an active role in their financial well-being.
• Stock Market Game
  The Stock Market Game gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio.

These resources have been developed by FEPPP, in partnership with the SEL Program at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), to support educators, families, and communities in exploring the natural connection between financial education and social emotional development.

Financial Education and SEL in the K-5 Classroom PD (1.5 hours)

This webinar explores the natural connection between financial education and social emotional learning! Find K – 5 standards alignment, reference materials and classroom resources such as lessons that develop student’s decision-making (self-management) abilities.

• Webinar recording link - PowerPoint is available upon request.  Please contact the FEPPP team.
• Financial Education and SEL (K-5) Resource Package

Standards Alignment: Financial Education Benchmark & SEL Indicator Crosswalk

A conversation-starting tool, these crosswalks identify areas of opportunity for financial education within grade-band specific SEL indicators.

• K – 5 Standards Crosswalk
• 6 – 8 Standards Crosswalk
• 9 – 12 Standards Crosswalk

The Social Emotional Aspects of Personal Finance Behaviors (K-12)

This chart identifies the self-awareness, self-management, and self-efficacy aspects of saving, spending, earning, borrowing/lending, and giving.

K-5 Self-Management & Financial Decision-Making Lessons

Explore how SEL and financial education connect with this collection of lessons featuring open-ended, problem-based learning activities that use personal finance contexts to develop problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

A curated collection of children’s books with personal finance and economic themes! Click a book title to find Lesson & Resource Guides with links to free video read alouds, as well as discussion guides and other no- or low-prep text-aligned lessons, materials, and more!

• A Bike Like Sergio’s
• A Chair for My Mother
• Brave Girl
• Bunny Money
• Count on Pablo
• Dirt Cheap
• Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers
• Ella Earns Her Own Money
• Gio & Banks Scarcity, Choices, and Tradeoffs
• Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
• Last Stop on Market Street
• Lemonade in Winter
• Lily Learns about Wants and Needs
• My Rows and Piles of Coins
• Pancakes, Pancakes!
• Potato A Tale from the Great Depression
• Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock
• Save It!
• Shark Lady
• Sloth & Squirrel in a Pickle
• Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
• The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
• The Tortilla Factory
• Those Shoes
• Tía Isa Wants a Car
• Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
• Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
• Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller

Financial Education for Special Populations (K-12) Resource Package

Find financial education curriculum, units, lessons, and other materials designed to meet the needs of Native youth, homeless youth, institutionalized youth, students receiving Special Education services, and migrant or dual language/MLL students in this resource package.

• Webinar recording link
• Webinar ppt link

Financial Education designed for Special Population students.

• Building Native Communities: Financial Empowerment for Teens and Young Adults
  Developed for native youth by First Nation Development Institute and Oweesta Corporation, this free, turnkey curriculum was developed for grades 9-12. No registration required.

This financial skills curriculum is for young adults within native communities. Our purpose is to: enable community members to celebrate their traditional values by learning financial skills that will help each person make informed financial decisions for themselves, their family, and their community.

• Keys to Your Financial Future (Annie E. Casey Foundation Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative)
  Developed for foster youth, with applications for other special populations such as un-homed, institutionalized, and low-income youth, this free, turnkey curriculum is appropriate for ages 16-26. Facilitator Guide and Participant Guides available for download. No registration required.

Becoming economically secure is an important goal for young people transitioning from foster care into adulthood. The Casey Foundation offers a comprehensive financial education curriculum — built around eight modules or "keys" — to help youth grow their financial aptitude and make better financial decisions.

• $pending Frenzy: (Digital game)
  Real life and independent living means taking responsibility. It means putting a roof over your head, paying the light bill, and buying food. Sometimes that means hard work and sacrifice. But it also means freedom, empowerment, and the fun of living on your own. Are you ready for the challenge? Registration required.

The $pending Frenzy App was created by First Nations Development Institute and Shawn Spruce Consulting with support from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Special thanks to Native American Community Development Corporation for assistance with design and piloting of the app.

OSPI Resources

• WASHINGTON MODEL RESOURCE: Screening for Biased Content in Instructional Materials

Note: Dual Language (Spanish) Resources can be found in our “Spanish Resources | Recursos en español” section

Estos recursos de educación financiera han sido repasados y desarrollados por FEPPP para apoyar instructores, estudiantes, familias y comunidades con materiales diversos y de alta calidad.

Para educadores 

• K-12 recursos de educación financiera en español
  Una lista repasada de currículo, colecciones de recursos educativos, libritos de actividades, cómicos, lecciones individuales, e actividades y juegos para ensenar los niños de los básicos de financieros personales.

Para todos

• Biblioteca de educación Financiera de FEPPP - Estantería de libros en español
  Ocho títulos disponibles en inglés y español para empezar las conversaciones sobre el dinero. ¡Haz clic al libro para una lectura en voz alta bilingüe online y una guía de recursos K-5 en español e inglés!

Para padres y familias

• K-12 Recursos de educación financiera para padres y cuidadores
  Una colección de guías de programas de educación financiera para padres de niños de cualquier edad, así como otros consejos como empezar o continuar las conversaciones de finanzas con sus niños.

• Recurso de educación financiera para adultos
  Los recursos para adultos incluyen información relevante a los temas financiero que los adultos toman cada día.

Help for youth with disabilities.

• ABLEnow's Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Basics
  The federal Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act authorized states to establish tax-advantaged savings programs so individuals with disabilities can save and invest money without jeopardizing eligibility for public benefits.
• EDsmart's Winning in College: A Guide for Students with Disabilities
  Every student should have the opportunity to attend college and better their future, including their financial future. This guide will assist students with disabilities in choosing colleges that will best work with their needs
• UW's Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO IT)'s College Funding for Students with Disabilities
  College funding for youth with disabilities, including a list of scholarship and award opportunities specifically available students with disabilities.