Teacher support
About Fortunity
Fortunity is an online interactive board game designed to help key stages 3 and 4 and post-16 pupils improve their financial capability through an engaging competitive challenge.
The game helps pupils to learn how to confront financial challenges in an appealing and exciting way. To succeed, players must balance money-management skills with the incentive of using their money to pursue the lifestyle choices they desire. Players must also complete learning quizzes and mini-game challenges that increase in complexity as the game progresses.
Playing Fortunity in class
Fortunity is designed to be played by 1–4 players, and can be used either on an interactive whiteboard or by groups or individuals in an ICT suite. On average the game will take two players 40–60 minutes to complete.
First, you may want to introduce the game using an IWB. Once introduced, players move straight into the game and are given direction by automated pop-ups.
Fortunity is all about making decisions and finding out the consequences, so, wherever possible, pupils should be given the opportunity and freedom to play the game in groups of two, three or four, learning by trial and error.
A set of three lesson plan PDFs can be downloaded from this page. They help to introduce the game and to facilitate the reflection and discussion, which is a vitally important part of learning in personal finance education.
The game will stimulate a huge amount of talk, and guidance is given about how to direct this effectively. There are also two copiable activity sheets to give pupils a written focus and provide some evidence of learning. Click on the link below to download the lesson plans.
Curriculum links
Fortunity is aimed at supporting learning in the new ‘Economic wellbeing and financial capability’ strand of PSHE education in the National Curriculum for England, at both key stage 3 and key stage 4, but it will also help teachers to resource aspects of citizenship and mathematics at the two key stages. A full table of links can be found in the Lesson Plans PDF on this page.
Mini game answers and starter activities
Also available to download from this page is a selection of starter activity ideas to use when playing the Fortunity mini games.
These starter activities include answer and fact sheets to support the mini games. They can be used as great starting and assessment activities for personal finance education lessons. Click on the link below to download the starter activities.