Connect With Us: Call (855) 385-8488

Always Free for Every Teacher

Free Financial Literacy Activities for Elementary Students

Help Students Learn Critical Financial Concepts

Start Building Early Financial Literacy with Vault - Understanding Money

Developing strong financial literacy skills at an early age helps students towards a better financial future. Vault - Understanding Money is a digital financial education resource that uses real-life financial scenarios to address both financial concepts and social-emotional learning skills. This gamified course features an engaging storyline, diverse cast of characters,interactions and financial literacy activities to teach students fundamental financial topics.

  • Financial Decision Making
  • Spending and Saving
  • Income and Careers
  • Credit and Borrowing

EVERFI’s digital resources are here to help you teach real-world, financial literacy skills in any type of learning environment.

Course Snapshot

  • Target Students

    Grades 4-6

  • Curriculum

    Social Studies, ELA, Math, Finance

  • Time

    5 Lessons / 15-Minute Lessons, 75 Minutes Total

Lesson Plan

Financial Decision Making

This lesson introduces the concept of responsible decision-making, a key element to long-term financial success and the main focus of the course.

Vault Lesson 1 - Financial Decision Making

Spending and Saving

In this lesson, students learn how to set a savings goal, build a budget, and shop as informed consumers.

Credit and Borrowing

In this lesson, students learn the basics of borrowing and credit. They learn how to be a reliable borrower and how to manage debt responsibly.

Credit and Borrowing

In this lesson, students learn the basics of borrowing and credit. They learn how to be a reliable borrower and how to manage debt responsibly.

Vault Lesson 4 - Credit and Borrowing

Bring Vault into Your Classroom, School and District

Access and Accountability

Asynchronous learning allows for lessons anytime, anywhere with built-in assessments and real-time grading.

Turnkey Lessons

Gamified financial skills in a fail-safe environment. Teachers receive lesson plans, activities, & discussion guides, too.

Implementation Support

Our regional support team guides teachers every step of the way, through on-demand training and professional learning events.

Join the 60,000+ teachers who used EVERFI's award-winning lessons this past school year!

It tied right in with a career unit I taught in my 6th grade technology class & the kids loved it!

Teacher
Fayetteville R-III School District, Missouri

I like that it was ready-to-use, user-friendly and incorporated both fun and learning, real-life skills.

Teacher
Comsewogue School District, New York

Frequently Asked Questions

EVERFI has built a network of partners and sponsors who help fund our digital resources for K-12 teachers, schools, and districts. Through multi-year commitments, EVERFI gives educators the assurance that programming can be launched at scale and even written into the curriculum.

These lessons are aligned to National and State ELA Standards. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation with your kindergarten or elementary students.

EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students. Thanks to partners, we provide our digital platform, training, and support at no cost.

Get Started Today

Request free access to Vault digital activities and resources.

Access Free Lessons