These free online games provide the hooks to get students engaged in decision making around paying for college, budgeting, investing and more.

 

Teacher Tip: As many schools block access to games on their network, you may want to send the Arcade webpage to your IT department to make sure that the games below are accessible to your students. 

INSURANCE

15
MIN.
Can you select insurance to help you survive a few spins on the dreaded Wheel of Bummers?

BUDGETING

15
MIN.
Help Enzo manage his budget, reach his savings goal, and make it to Vegas.

PAYING FOR COLLEGE

20
MIN.
Students are in the “driver’s seat” as they make decisions to get to and through college.

INVESTING

20
MIN.
See the consequences of 20 years of investing decisions in just 20 minutes.

MANAGING CREDIT

13
MIN.
Battle your way to the perfect credit score. May the cards be in your favor.

BUDGETING

15
MIN.
Can you make it through the month? Living paycheck to paycheck is stressful.

TYPES OF CREDIT

10
MIN.
Students will learn the “tricks of the loan trade” as they play the role of a loan shark and try to maximize their profits.

CAREER

15
MIN.
Can you make it as an Uber driver with two kids to support and a mortgage payment due in a week?

MANAGING CREDIT

5
MIN.
When it comes to debt, how do you get kids to care about things like interest rates, compounding and minimum payments?

Over one million students play these games which have been recognized by Common Sense Education in their "Best Business and Finance Games" category. Each game comes with its own worksheet with reflection questions guaranteed to spark lively classroom discussion to cement the learning objectives.