Helping Kids Connect Mind, Money & Life Skills
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Books and classroom resources for Grades 4–8 that connect financial literacy with social-emotional learning. Giving your child the "soft skills" they need to function in the world and the "hard sense" of how to manage money wisely!
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Mind & Money
Understanding how thoughts and emotions shape money decisions
Learn how thoughts and emotions influence spending, saving, and decision-making. This book helps students build awareness so they can make smarter financial choices in real life.
Better Start Budgeting
Planning, saving, and making thoughtful money choices
Students learn how to manage money, plan ahead, and build strong financial habits. This book introduces budgeting in a simple, visual, and practical way.
How to Handle Stress & Risk
Managing emotions and making confident decisions under pressure
Explore how stress and uncertainty affect decisions. Students learn tools to manage emotions, evaluate risks, and make thoughtful choices with money and life.
Picking Your Earning Path
Exploring interests, skills, and future opportunities
Help students discover how their interests and strengths connect to earning money. This book introduces career thinking, goal setting, and future planning.
Galactic Growth Series
Galactic Growth Series
The Galactic Growth series connects financial literacy with social-emotional learning to help students make better real-life decisions.
• Earning → Self-awareness
• Spending & Saving → Responsible decision-making
• Investing → Social awareness
• Risk & Stress → Self-management
• Credit & Borrowing → Relationship skills
Our books are helping kids connect Mind, Money, and Life Skills.
Gamified Review!
Gamified Review!
The learning doesn't end at the last page! Check out our games that let you play out what you learned!
Where Credit is Due
Understanding borrowing, trust, and healthy relationships
Discover the connection between borrowing money, protecting your future, and maintaining healthy connections with others. Students learn how banks work, what builds a credit score, and how rights and responsibilities shape both finances and friendships.
Reading the Room
Navigating stock markets, social norms, and community dynamics
Learn how social awareness and observation connect to smart investing and everyday interactions. Students explore how to read the room, understand community social norms, and navigate the basics of the stock market.
My Money ABCs
This helps young learners explore the basics of money in a fun and engaging way. Each letter introduces an important concept, like earning, saving, banks, and needs vs. wants and building a strong foundation for understanding how money works.
What Are Coins?
This introduces students to the world of coins through a playful, story-driven approach. Readers learn about pennies, nickels, dimes, and more, exploring their value, history, and real-life use.
Building Skills for Every Student Everywhere! Free!
Engaging books and classroom resources that help students practice money skills, build confidence, and apply learning in real-life situations. All lessons free with lesson plans!
GreatCents Lessons
Ready-to-use lessons for Grades 4–8 that connect personal finance with social-emotional learning through interactive activities and discussions.
Students explore topics like earning, saving, and decision-making while building confidence and real-life skills. Each lesson is designed to be engaging, practical, and easy for teachers to implement.
Money Maker
Grade 6 (Ages 11–12)
A complete guide to financial literacy, human capital, and real-world economics
The Money Maker curriculum guides middle school students through core principles of personal finance and economics, from wants and needs to paychecks, taxes, and mini-business planning . By exploring trade-offs, career paths, and human capital, this unit empowers young learners to make confident financial choices and build strong money habits for the future.
Money Expert
Grade 7 (Ages 12–13)
Mastering the essentials of earning, spending, saving, investing, and donating
The Money Expert curriculum invites 7th-grade students to dive deeper into personal finance by exploring how to manage expenses, create budgets, read paychecks, and understand the impact of taxes on their income. Through interactive projects like budgeting challenges, comparison shopping, and evaluating FinTech apps, learners develop real-world money management skills and build actionable strategies for saving and investing their wealth.
Invest in the Best
Grade 8 (Ages 13-14)
Building wealth through stocks, mutual funds, entrepreneurship, and risk management
The Invest in the Best curriculum introduces 8th-grade students to advanced concepts of long-term wealth building, investing, and the mechanics of the stock market. Through real-world case studies and interactive projects, learners analyze how companies grow through stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, evaluate financial risk, and pitch their own business plans to prospective investors.
The My Economy
Turn your classroom into a hands-on economy where students learn by doing.
In My Economy Story: Season 1, students follow a group rebuilding a town while exploring how systems like banks, jobs, and spending work together. Along the way, students earn, make decisions, and experience how their choices impact outcomes in a real-world setting.
Engaging Lessons, Games, and Teacher Resources
Accessible lessons, games, and classroom resources designed to give teachers and parents simple, ready-to-use tools for meaningful learning on Teachers Pay Teachers.
GreatCentsopoly
A classic game reimagined to teach real-world money skills
GreatCentsopoly helps students learn financial concepts through hands-on gameplay. As they buy, trade, and manage money, students practice decision-making, strategy, and risk in an engaging way.
Food Truck Foldable
Creative, hands-on learning through building and design
Students create their own food truck through a fun, hands-on foldable activity. This low-prep resource builds creativity, focus, and problem-solving while keeping students engaged.
Pizza Making Station Bundle
Interactive building meets real-world thinking
Students design and build their own pizza station while exploring choices and organization. This engaging activity encourages creativity and helps students think through real-world processes.
Cent City (Bean Game)
A hands-on simulation for understanding money and decision-making
The Cent City Bean Game gives students an interactive way to experience earning, spending, and making choices. Through gameplay, students see how their decisions impact outcomes in real time.
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