We're halfway through Financial Literacy Month and there's still plenty of time to enter our classroom decor raffle for a chance to win one of two $100 Amazon gift cards. Get some inspiration from these five ideas from teachers and submit your own entry here. 

Entries can be as simple or as intricate as you choose. View more teacher submissions in our Facebook album. 

Rules: Only one entry per person. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Winners will be drawn the next day and announced on NGPF social media channels. You must have an NGPF Teacher Account to be eligible to win.

Personal Finance Advice Apple Tree

I handed out Apples for every Personal Finance Student at our school (not just mine) and asked them to write their personal finance advice that they may have learned this year so far. I also asked them to color/decorate them if they want to cut them out. I put them on the "Personal Finance Advice Apple Tree" -An apple a day keeps the loan sharks away!! :) They had fun with it and it shows other students who walk by some valuable information as well. 

-Amber Wise, King George High School, King George VA

Napkin Finance

Napkin Finance creates fun, engaging infographics that teach people complex financial concepts using the format of napkins. A bulletin board with some of the napkins printed out. 

-Lisa Perkins of Excelsior Springs 40

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

"Money Doesn't Grow on Trees" takes critical lesson components that pop from the NGPF Lesson and makes it into a "trunk" full of great visuals, statistics, and data that "branches" out an amazing symbol of "shady" common misconceptions students might have on money. It tries to connect what type of costs and future planning are needed for students growing up and what reality looks like. The stunning visual, hopefully, stands out in their minds and catches their attention to read further to build their "roots" in the costs, concerns, and NEED for goal setting.

Students can refer to this "canopy of conscientiousness" to make sure they are "planting the right seeds" of achievement now and seeing the heights and bounds their aims can reach. All this before they make it to the end of 8th grade, on their way to high school, and make like a tree... and leaf! :D

-Mike Aday, Hudson Academy/ Hudson

Your Tax Dollar in Action

Most of my decor came straight from NGPF! I keep the tax dollar activity posted year round, and we use it when that lesson comes around.

-Stephanie Butman, Oakland FlexTech High School; Farmington Hills, MI

Find the Move: Your Tax Dollar in Action activity here.

Atlanta Fed Posters

I have posters in my room from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta that I reference during appropriate NGPF Middle School curriculum. This is just a few of them.

-Jason Vickers, Sparkman Middle School - Toney, AL

See the posters here.

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Hannah Rael

As NGPF's Marketing Communications Manager, Hannah (she/her) helps spread the word about NGPF's mission to improve the financial lives of the next generation of Americans.

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