Junior
Achievement's middle grade programs include
economics and business curricula for seventh-,
eighth-, and ninth-grade students as well as
a capstone experience. The dynamic interaction
between the volunteer and the students promotes
active learning and brings theory to life.
JA Global Marketplace®
provides practical information about the global economy and its effect
on students’ lives.
Concepts and Skills
* Trade * Market * Domestic trade * International trade * Exports * Trade
barrier * Quota * Subsidy * Embargo *Tariff * Standard * Business practices
* Culture * Franchise * Global trade * Immigrate * Emigrate *
Entrepreneurship * Human resources * Productivity * Technology * Exchange
rates * Currency Interpreting maps * charts * and globes * Oral and written
communication * Working in groups * Gathering and organizing information *
Critical reading * Persuasion * Compromise and bargaining * Analyzing points
of view * Brainstorming * Critical thinking * Math calculations
JA America Works®
provides students with examples of how business and entrepreneurship
affected the economic development of the United States during the 19th
century.
Concepts and Skills
* Benefit * Boomtown * Capital resources * Communication * Competition *
Cost * Cost-benefit analysis * Demand * Emigration * Entrepreneurship *
Human resources * Immigration * Industrialization * Innovation * Invention *
Modes of transportation * Natural resources * Opportunity cost * Productive
resources * Productivity * Pull factor * Push factor * Risk * Scarcity *
Supply * Technology * Telegraphy Analyzing information * Critical-thinking
skills * Decision-making * Decoding messages * Encoding messages *
Gathering, interpreting, and organizing information * Math calculations *
Oral and written communication * Planning, Reading and interpreting data *
Working in groups
Economics for Success® - explores personal finance and students’
education and career options based on their skills, interests, and values.
It also demonstrates the economic benefits of staying in school.
Concepts and Skills
Credit · Debt · Decision-making · Gross income · Insurance · Interest ·
Needs and wants · Net income · Opportunity cost · Risk · Self-knowledge ·
World of work Critical thinking · Decision-making · Following directions ·
Interpreting data · Math calculations · Oral and written communication ·
Problem-solving · Role-playing · Self-assessment · Working in groups
JA It's
My Business® - encompasses entrepreneurship curriculum for students
in grades six, seven, and eight. The program emphasizes entrepreneurship
while providing a strong focus on social studies, reading, and writing
skills. Students are encouraged to use critical thinking to learn
entrepreneurial skills that support positive attitudes as they explore and
enhance their career aspirations.
Concepts and Skills
Advertising · Apprentice · Auction · Auctioneer · Be Creative and Innovative
· Believe in Yourself · Bid · Business · Business Plan · Civic
Responsibility · Customer · Entrepreneur · Entrepreneur Profile · Fill a
Need · Know Your Customer and Product · Market · Marketing · Profit ·
Self-taught · Social Entrepreneur Active-listening · Analyzing Information ·
Brainstorming · Creative Thinking · Critical Thinking · Decision-making ·
Deductive Reasoning · Estimating · Following Directions · Group Work ·
Interpreting Information · Measuring · Money Management · Oral and Written
Communication · Problem-solving · Self-assessment
JA
Finance Park™ helps
students build a foundation for making intelligent,
lifelong,
personal financial decisions.
Concepts and Skills
Banking · Budgets · Buying · Careers · Choices · Consumers · Credit · Debt · Exchange · Expenses · Income · Interest
rates · Investments · Money · Opportunity
costs · Savings · Scarcity · Social
security · Taxes · Analysis · Applying
information · Budgeting · Cause
and effect · Critical thinking · Computation · Data
collection · Decision making · Filling
out forms · Following directions · Graphing · Interpersonal
communication · Interpreting data · Listening · Negotiation · Observation · Planning · Problem
solving · Reading · Research · Role
playing · Spending · Taking responsibility · Teamwork
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