Fund Your Future

Fund Your Future

Grades 6 – 8  |  Financial Literacy

Fund Your Future teaches students important financial literacy lessons through humor, action and interactive improv. Two professional actors bring to life three fun and educational sketches, covering key topics like credit card usage, interest and fees, saving for large purchases and creating a budget. Students actively participate in the performance, helping them understand these crucial financial concepts in a memorable and entertaining way.

In addition to the performance, students and teachers will receive an exclusive e-learning package with games, quizzes and lesson plans to reinforce the financial literacy topics covered in the show. This includes access to the Money Smart 2.0 online curriculum, providing even more opportunities to extend the learning experience and integrate financial education into the classroom and beyond.

Live In-School Performance

Standards-Aligned

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Includes Teacher Resources

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Money Smart 2.0  Curriculum

Interactive & Engaging

Through engaging sketches featuring a variety of entertaining characters, Fund Your Future teaches the following educational points:

All NTC programs align with state educational standards, including science, social studies, financial literacy, and health standards, depending on the specific program. Programs also align with national standards such as NGSS, NCAS, and Common Core.

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This in-school performance comes with a Teacher Toolkit, providing educators with easy-to-use online resources that extend the learning experience.

Audience Guidelines – Before the show, use our guide to equip students with the skills they need to be excellent audience members. 

Pre-Show Materials – Get students primed for learning with KWL charts and vocabulary words to scaffold their experience.

Student Handbook – The printed student handbook takes a deeper dive into program-related educational content. This expanded material, aligned with educational standards, sparks classroom discussion and provides an opportunity for students to explore important information with their families at home. The handbook is also available digitally in the Teacher Toolkit.

Printable Handouts – The toolkit contains several program-themed printable handouts to engage students in the lessons from the performance. These can be completed in the classroom or at home. 

Hands-on Lessons – These easy-to-use lessons let students and teachers bring the educational content to life in the classroom.

Money Smart 2.0 – Developing positive financial habits equips students with 21st-century skills and tools that last a lifetime. The engaging lessons, activities and resources found in Money Smart 2.0 can help you build those skills.

Digital Games – Using characters and elements from the program, the digital games offer challenging levels to test students’ knowledge of facts and vocabulary while keeping them engaged.

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Why Schools Choose NTC

NTC has been touring the United States with free educational programming for over 45 years. Whether you are a first-timer or a repeat viewer, we’re excited to offer this opportunity to you free of charge, provided by organizations in your region that care about the future of your students and our planet.

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Available for

In-school Assembly

Topic

Financial Literacy

Program Length

35 Minutes

Audience

Grades 6-8

Includes

Teacher + Student Resources

Serving schools nationwide for 47+ years