Teach financial literacy — a guide for elementary school teachers

Financial literacy education is key to helping young students turn into empowered, independent adults. 💪🏽 So how do you make a topic like financial literacy fun for elementary school students?

Meet Greenlight for Classrooms — a free web-based financial literacy curriculum built for teachers by financial education experts to align with state standards. The curriculum can be filtered by state standards and grade level, making it easy to find resources, including animated videos, and activities specifically designed for your students. 

Free lesson plans? Here you come!

Greenlight for Classrooms: Empowering students with financial education

Elementary school students are learning about money for the first time, so it’s important to talk to them about it in a way they understand. Here at Greenlight, we get it. We developed Greenlight for Classrooms to empower educators to teach students about money at any age, with resources designed for particular grade levels.

Let’s talk details. When you sign up for a free Greenlight for Classrooms account — you get access to an interactive, web-based library. This library is full of financial literacy teacher guides, lesson plans, animated videos, quizzes, and activities. You can filter the library by state standard and grade level to find the materials that reinforce and enhance your classroom objectives.

The best part? Greenlight for Classrooms provides ultimate flexibility. So use the materials you love and leave the rest! If your students enjoy animated videos, use the videos to reinforce your lessons. If you want in-depth lesson plans, utilize those. Feeling inspired? Use as much — or as little — of the content you like. It’s that simple.

The Greenlight for Classrooms web-based content includes:

• Teacher guides to facilitate classroom instruction 🍎

• 40+ free lessons that are tailored for each grade level and state standards 📓

• 100+ animated videos that explain topics in a fun, engaging way 🥳

• Quizzes, activities, and discussion topics for active learning 🙋🏽‍♀️

Greenlight tip: Make learning about finances even more fun with Greenlight Level Up — an interactive game for K-12 students in the Greenlight app. It’s the perfect at-home learning tool to accompany Greenlight For Classrooms.

How to get started

Educating with Greenlight for Classrooms is easy. Follow these four steps to get started.

1. Make a free account

Visit Greenlight.com/classrooms and sign up using your school email — or Gmail if you prefer. During the sign-up process, you’ll answer a few short questions about what grade you teach and what state you’re in. 

2. Review the content library

You’re in! Your free account gives you access to the complete Greenlight for Classrooms content library. That means free lesson plan ideas, teacher guides, quizzes, videos, and more.

3. Filter for the most relevant content

Once you’ve explored the library, use the built-in filters to search for content designed for your grade level and state standards. 

4. Empower students with financial literacy skills

Put Greenlight for Classrooms into action! Use the content you love to teach students about financial topics. 

Pro tip: Want even more financial education resources? Jump$tart Clearinghouse has additional articles, programs,  and resources for educators.

Teach financial literacy your way

Greenlight for Classrooms allows educators like you to teach financial literacy your way. With ultimate flexibility, engaging content, and free lesson plans for teachers — Greenlight for Classrooms is here to help you talk to your students about money. Because kids that learn about saving, spending, and investing become confident, financially savvy adults. And we believe financial education is important at every age, just like you. Create an account today to access the full library. 

Consider Greenlight for Classrooms our way of saying “thank you” for everything you do to educate the next generation of empowered, financially literate young adults. ❤️