• Elementary School
  • JA Ourselves
  • JA Our Families
  • JA Our Community
  • JA Our City
  • JA Our Region
  • JA Our Nation
  • JA More than Money
  • Biz Kid$
  • JA BizTown
  • Junior Achievement $ave, USA Lessons
• Middle School
  • JA America Works
  • JA Economics for Success
  • JA Finance Park
  • JA Global Marketplace
  • JA It's My Business!
  • JA's Biz Kid$
  • Junior Achievement $ave, USA Lessons
• High School
  • JA Banks in Action
  • JA Be Entrepreneurial
  • JA Business Ethics
  • JA Careers with a Purpose
  • JA Company Program
  • JA Economics
  • JA Exploring Economics
  • JA Finance Park
  • JA Job Shadow
  • JA Personal Finance
  • JA Success Skills
  • JA Titan
  • Junior Achievement $ave, USA Lessons
  • Global JA Titan Challenge
• Scholarships
• Correlations
• Evaluations
• Supplements
  • Biz Kid$
  • Economic Investigations
  • Excellence through Ethics
  • JA Current Economic Climate
  • JA Travel and Tourism
  • Microsoft Unlimited Potential Technology Curriculum
  • JA Searching for Savings
• Student Events
• JA AfterSchool ®
  • Overview
  • JA More than Money™ (Grades 3-5)
  • JA It's My Business!™ (Grades 6-8)
  • JA Company Program™ (Grades 9-12)
  • Junior Achievement
    $ave USA™
 

Elementary School Programs :: JA Our Families™

JA Our Families emphasizes the roles people play in the local economy and engages students with activities about needs,

The objectives listed beside each session state the skills and knowledge students will gain.

Session One: Our Families Students better understand what a family is by studying a poster. They discover how people in a family are alike and different and how they work together to make where they live a good place. Objectives: Students will be able to: identify what a family is. recognize how people live and work together in a family.

Session Two: Our Families' Needs and Wants Students become aware that all families must have food, clothing, and shelter to live. They begin to understand the difference between a need and a want. Objectives: Students will be able to: explain the differences between a need and a want.

Session Three: JA Our Families' Jobs Students learn how jobs provide for family members’ needs and wants. They draw pictures of family members doing jobs. Objectives: Students will be able to: define a job as work that needs to be done. identify jobs people do.

Session Four: Finding Our Families' Needs and Wants Students use a floor map to discover where members of a family would go to obtain their needs and wants. Objectives: Students will be able to: interpret map symbols. place various kinds of symbols for businesses and services on a map. recognize how family members depend on various businesses to provide for their needs and wants.

Session Five: Paying for Our Families' Needs and Wants Students learn about the importance of working to pay for needs and wants. Through role-playing, they demonstrate working and paying for these needs and wants. Objectives: Students will be able to: describe various jobs from which people earn money. recognize that families use money to satisfy their needs and wants.

JA Our Families enhances students’

Concepts–Business, Choices, Consumers, Earning, Economic incentives, Economic institutions, Employment, Family, Human resources, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs, Money, Needs, Resources, Scarcity, Skills, Spending, Tools, Voluntary exchange, Wants, Work

Skills–Analyzing information, Decision-making, Differentiating, Drawing, Following directions, Interpreting symbols, Listening responsively, Making observations, Map reading, Matching, Recognizing symbols, Sequencing, Teamwork

JA Our Families is a series of five activities recommended for students in first grade. The average time for each Session is 30 minutes. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed Session plans for the volunteer and materials for 30 students.

All JA programs are designed to support the skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21^st Century Skills. These programs also augment school-based, work-based, and connecting activities for communities with school-to-work initiatives.

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