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Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and Introduction
The program is volunteer-taught and kit-based and includes five 45-minute sessions. New features include Cha-Ching financial literacy music video enhancements, digital posters and games for use in the classroom, extended learning opportunities and optional supplements, and augmented reality activities to do at home.
Junior Achievement USA® is committed to developing and implementing programs designed to help students acquire the knowledge and economic reasoning skills to make sound financial decisions. Junior Achievement’s elementary school programs are developed with a primary emphasis on social studies content, while also strongly emphasizing mathematics, reading, and writing skills. The elementary school programs show students the relevance of education to the workplace through sequential business and economics curriculum that allows students to explore JA’s Three Pillars of Student Success:
Entrepreneurship
Financial Literacy
Work & Career Readiness
JA Our City Overview
JA Our City Overview
Knowing we have four choices with money–earn, save, spend, and donate–helps us reach our personal goals and dreams and keeps cities alive and healthy.
There are different forms of “spend”: cash, credit and debit cards, electronic payment and checks. Cash is visible and easy to see. Other forms are invisible because we don’t see it as money being spent.
Entrepreneurs create businesses where people can earn money. Entrepreneurs spend money to keep their businesses running. Entrepreneurs also save money for business needs, and donate money for the good of the community.
SESSION FOUR: Money Choices Make the City Go Round (45 minutes)
When people, businesses, and the city balance the four money choices (earn, save, spend, and donate), the city remains healthy and can thrive.
Students begin to understand how the individual choices they make with money, affects the economic decisions of businesses and the government.
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