This guide collects the classroom activities of the Bitcoin Diploma in one place. Its four chapters follow the four modules of the course: Understanding Money, How Bitcoin Works, Using Bitcoin Safely, and Bitcoin in Your Community. Each activity sets out its objectives, materials, setup, steps, and discussion questions, so you can prepare it on its own.

Choose activities with a purpose

The activities support the modules. They do not replace them, and none of them is an assessment by itself. Before you choose one, decide what it is for: learning and practice, checking understanding, or a practical task that may also give assessment evidence. The Educator Guide chapter "Select and adapt activities" explains how to choose, how to adapt an activity to your learners, and which activities can support each competency of the Assessment Grid.

Do not keep an activity only because it is familiar. Adapt the setting, the examples, and the timing to your learners and your community.

Keep practical activities safe

Some activities in the third chapter use real Bitcoin wallets and small real payments. Before you run them, read the Educator Guide chapter "Safe practical teaching" and follow its demonstration safety protocol. In short:

• Prefer simulations, test environments, or empty training wallets. If funds are needed, use an amount whose complete loss would remain a lesson, not a crisis.
• Never ask a learner to show, enter, or share a recovery phrase, private key, or password, and never collect or photograph one.
• Stop the activity immediately if a real secret appears, if an address, invoice, amount, or network does not match, or if a learner is unsure whether real funds are involved.

Find the right activity

Each activity lists its type (game, discussion, video, and so on), how participants work together (whole class, small groups, individually), and, where the source gives one, its duration. Every activity is also available as a printable sheet in the Activity Library.