Junior Achievement Program Supplements
The following supplements are available to JA Areas, teachers, volunteers and parents for use with all JA programming to extend and enhance the JA experience for students. These supplements provide students with additional information, learning opportunities, and experiences that support their understanding of JA's curriculum.
Economic Investigations
Junior Achievement, in cooperation with the Social Science Education Consortium, has developed 12 "Economic Investigations" designed to help High School students achieve a deeper understanding of current economic issues.
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JA Afford Your Future™
JA Afford Your Future provides teens, young adults, and their families the opportunity to explore career income and education funding options to ensure they can afford their ideal future
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JA Assembling Your Career
JA Assembling Your Career helps provide middle school and high school students with practical information about STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics - careers and ways students can prepare for these careers while still in school.
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JA Connect®
JA Connect® is Junior Achievement's first self-guided student experience, featuring a flexible, modular repository of activities related to work and career readiness.
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JA Hand in Hand®
JA Hand in Hand® video series allows students to learn foundational financial literacy concepts and videos support learning for all students through American Sign Language, close captioning, and audio
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JA Here to Career®
JA Here to Career® provides middle and high school students with a unique opportunity to engage in detailed career exploration, with a focus on opportunities in their own community and regional area.
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JA Influencer
JA Influencer is a resource for educators to discuss topical subjects on financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship with students. Designed with high school students in mind, the JA Influencer white paper and discussion guide dive into current events to prompt conversation and learning.
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JA Money Quiz®
Put your financial intelligence to the test with the JA Money Quiz®! Each time you take the quiz, the questions will be different, and you will have the opportunity to learn more and improve your score.
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JA Our Neighbors®
JA Our Neighbors® is a series of culturally responsive videos designed to help contextualize concepts introduced in JA's elementary school learning experiences. The videos utilize social emotional learning concepts to support the participating students.
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JA Searching for Savings
JA Searching for Savings is a supplemental activity that seeks to help middle grades students see the value in online tools that help save money. Following participation in the supplement, students will be able to decipher the value of coupons in an overall budget.
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JA Teen Budgeting Income and Spending Worksheets
The Junior Achievement Budget Sheet provides students with the opportunity to track their income and spending throughout the month.
Students are also encouraged to share their long-term and short-term goals in order to budget for the future.
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JA Tools for Success®
JA Tools for Success® introduces middle school students to work and career readiness skills and other concepts and thought processes needed to prepare for the digital economy. Students learn work-ready skills needed to interact, build relationships, and exhibit self-awareness through the lens of their own values, skills, and interests.
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Junior Achievement $ave, USA
We know it can be tough to speak to or teach your kids about money-management issues. We hope that you find these lessons helpful with those conversations!
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