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Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and Introduction
The program is volunteer-taught and kit-based and includes five 30-minute sessions. New features hands-on classroom activities, extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.
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 Ourselves Overview
JA Ourselves Overview
Students practice economics by making personal choices.
Students recognize that people have basic needs and wants and that money-smart people know the difference between them.
Students are introduced to storybook characters and examine ways they can earn money.
Students are introduced to the concept of saving.
Students are introduced to storybook characters and their plans to earn money for a worthy cause.
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