5th Grade

JA BizTown

JA BizTown combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town. This popular learning experience allows elementary school students to visit BizTown, where they become Citizens in a simulated town. They will have the opportunity to operate banks, manage restaurants, write checks, and vote for the mayor. Students can connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world.

JA BizTown is recommended for grades 4–6. The learning experience is a JA Capstone program and is available for classroom-based, self-guided, or remote classroom implementation. It includes 12 teacher-led sessions before the visit to BizTown and one session following the simulation, with a 4–5 hour visit to a hands-on simulated community or a virtual simulation.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
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All Grades

JA Career Speaker Series

In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.

Following participation in the learning experience, students will be able to:

  • Identify skills and interests.
  • Recognize career clusters.
  • Practice active listening skills.

JA Career Speaker Series is part of the JA Work and Career Readiness Pathway and can be placed in grades K–12. The learning experience is available in classroom based, remote synchronous, recorded video, or after-school/out-of-school Implementation. Activities and implementation design vary based on grade level.

JA teachers and volunteers are encouraged, as part of this learning experience, to utilize the resources available in JA Connect® Learning Pathways, located at connect.ja.org. This self-guided experience includes interactives, JA Here to Career™, games and apps for student use.

JA Learning Experiences support national and state standards in reading, mathematics, social studies, and work and career readiness. See below for more information on alignment with national and state standards.

Junior Achievement USA gratefully acknowledges Citi Foundation for its dedication to the development and implementation of JA Career Speaker Series.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Classroom Based
Virtual
After School
6 – 8th Grades

JA Economics for Success

JA Economics for Success reveals the heart of a successful economic life: choosing the right career and managing money properly. JA Economics for Success is part of the JA Financial Literacy and JA Work and Career Readiness Pathways and is recommended for middle school students.

JA Economics for Success is recommended for grades 6 to 8. This volunteer-led, kit-based program is available for classroom-based and remote classroom implementation. It includes six 45-minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.

As part of this program, JA teachers and volunteers are encouraged to utilize the resources available in JA Connect™ Learning Pathways, located at connect.ja.org. This self-guided experience includes interactives, JA Digital Career Book, games, and apps for student use.

Work Readiness:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
After School
Classroom Based
Virtual
8th Grade

JA Inspire

JA Inspire is more than a career fair: It brings together the business community and local schools and is designed to help launch middle school students into their future—high school, college, and careers beyond. During the JA Inspire expo, students participate in hands-on activities, often using equipment or tools used on a job. The multi-hour experience is configurable to align with local industry and career opportunities.

JA Inspire is recommended for 6th to 8th grades. It’s a volunteer-led and educator-led program that can be classroom-based, remote-live, or after-school. The program is both classroom and event-based and consists of three segments:  in-class sessions presented by the classroom teacher, the hands-on JA Inspire expo, and an in-class debrief.

This program can be combined with JA Inspire Virtual to meet the needs of educators, students, and volunteers.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Virtual
6 – 8th Grades

JA It’s My Future

JA It's My Future offers students practical information to help prepare them for the working world. Students develop the personal branding and job-hunting skills needed to earn a job.

JA Inspire is recommended for 6th to 8th grades. It’s a volunteer-led program that can be implemented as a classroom-based, remote synchronous, or after-school program. It includes six 45-minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
After School
Classroom Based
Virtual
6 – 12th Grades

JA It’s My Job (soft skills)

JA It's My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters. Lessons focus on social and soft skill competencies that relate real-life experiences to job skills and prepare students for their future careers. Topics include communication and presentation skills, manners, listening skills, and cell phone etiquette.

JA Inspire is recommended for 6th to 12th grades. It’s a volunteer-led program that can be implemented as a classroom-based, remote synchronous, or after-school program.  It includes six 45-minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout. The minimum delivery is three sessions; the number and topic of modules can be determined based on student needs and available time.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Classroom Based
After School
Virtual
2nd Grade

JA Our Community

The JA Our Community program emphasizes work readiness intersected with social studies learning objectives. Topics include careers, production, innovation, earning, taxes, government, money, business, and decision-making. The student will develop a sense of career awareness and learn how all jobs help a community. The theme throughout the curriculum will emphasize how they, as citizens, benefit from and contribute to a community’s success in the future. Students will come to see how a community works together to be successful.

JA Our Community is recommended for second graders. It’s a volunteer-led, kit-based learning experience available for classroom-based or remote classroom implementation. It includes five 40-minute sessions, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
After School
Classroom Based
Virtual
5th Grade

JA Our Nation

JA Our Nation introduces students to the intersection of work readiness and upper elementary grade social studies learning objectives. Through hands-on classroom activities, the learning experience provides students with practical information about the nation's free-market system and how it serves as an economic engine for businesses and careers. It also introduces the need for entrepreneurial and innovative thinking to meet the requirements of high-growth, high-demand careers and the concept of globalization in business.

JA Our Nation is recommended for fifth-graders. It’s a volunteer-led, kit-based learning experience available for classroom-based or remote classroom implementation. It includes five 45-minute sessions and one optional supplemental session, with additional extended learning activities and optional digital assets offered throughout.

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
After School
Classroom Based
Virtual
9th-12th Grades

Marketing Innovation Certification

Marketing Innovation Certification

Provided by the Junior Achievement Florida Foundation

The Marketing Innovation certification is Junior Achievement’s next iteration of innovation in talent development by providing Florida high school students the opportunity to earn a qualified credential tied to a rapidly growing sector of the state’s workforce. Endorsed by over twenty of Florida's top employers, workforce development boards, post-secondary institutions, and public-school districts, The Marketing Innovation certification verifies a students' abilities to showcase the critical hard and soft skills required to be part of highly effective teams across a diverse set of industries that are in need of qualified marketing, innovation, and business development professionals.

About Certification

The Marketing Innovation Certification shall be awarded to students who demonstrate mastery of essential marketing skills to develop, communicate, and lead innovative solution design. Developed in partnership with educators and industry leaders, and supported by more than 100 businesses in high demand fields, acquiring this certification verifies that an individual has demonstrated the knowledge and skills to compete for high growth careers.

The Marketing Innovation Certification aligns to 150 hours of Marketing, Management, and Entrepreneurship principles within the marketing, sales, and service career clusters!  

This certification requires passing the Fundamentals of Marketing Innovation certification test as well as two of the three tests listed below:

Generating a Marketable Idea

Creating a Business Plan

Launching a Marketing Start-up

Why Get Certified?

Marketing expertise helps build trust and credibility while providing resources to help make informed decisions in business. This credential recognizes the multi-faceted approaches to marketing and innovation encompassing a wide range of platforms and techniques to get a message across. Traditional print, radio and television marketing has been enhanced with ever-growing digital marketing through social media, content platforms and virtual techniques. The choice of marketing platforms and techniques depends on many factors, such as target audience, budget, industry, and goals. This marketing certification encourages those interested in this field to create and innovate through verbal, digital and visual techniques to effectively communicate ideas and innovations.

For more information on the Marketing Innovation Certification, contact:

Olivier Millour

Phone: (813) 631-1410

Email: [email protected]

Work Readiness:
High
MinimalModerateHigh
Entrepreneurship:
Moderate
MinimalModerateHigh
Financial Literacy:
Minimal
MinimalModerateHigh
Classroom Based
Virtual