Balancing a Checkbook Financial Literacy Activity

Students learn how to balance a checkbook by working through 12 task cards, adding the transactions to their check registers. Students then find balances after each transaction and a final balance. Task cards do not need to be completed in order; every student will end with the same balance if all transactions are entered correctly. 

A check register acts as a student answer sheet. Also included is a simple grading rubric so that you can award credit to students who showed effort but may not have gotten the final balance correct. I use this activity in my high school consumer math class, but I feel that it can probably also work for younger students.