Junior Achievement Programs
»
JA Programs
»
Elementary Programs
»
Middle Grades Programs
»
High School Programs
»
After School Programs
»
JA In A Day
 
 Middle Grades Programs
»
JA Economics For Success
»
JA America Works
»
JA Global Marketplace
»
JA It's My Business
After School

 

 

JA Middle Grades Programs
 
It's My Business!®

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.

SESSIONS KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Session One: I Am an Entrepreneur

Working in groups, students play the E-Quiz Game Show. They begin to identify entrepreneurial characteristics they possess by learning about the lives of entrepreneurs both past and present.



  • Define entrepreneurship.
  • Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics.
  • Recognize personal entrepreneurial characteristics.

Session Two: I Can Change the World

Students work in groups to complete a blueprint for the Teen Club. They identify the first entrepreneurial characteristic, “Fill a Need”, by considering customer needs and brainstorming product design. Students begin to identify the skills and knowledge needed to start a business.

  • *Describe how entrepreneurs fill
    a market need.
  • Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and gaining competitive advantage.

Session Three: I Know My Customer

Working in groups, students recognize the second entrepreneurial characteristic, “Know Your Customer and Product.” Students discover ways to market specific products to the appropriate customers.


  • Create effective advertisements for a variety of businesses.
Session Four: I Have an Idea

Students participate in an auction designed to highlight creative and innovative entrepreneurs and their businesses.



  • Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business.
  • Verbally defend their decisions.
Session Five: I See a Need

By analyzing current examples of social entrepreneurs, students identify businesses they can start. They examine ways entrepreneurs use the four entrepreneurial characteristics to develop their business plan.


  • Analyze how entrepreneurs use their knowledge and abilities to create businesses.
Session Six: Celebrate Entrepreneurs!

Students create Entrepreneur Profile Cards to showcase their understanding of the fourth entrepreneurial characteristic “Believe in Yourself.”

  • Identify characteristics they share with entrepreneurs.
  • Create a Personal Entrepreneurial Profile.

 
 
CONCEPTS
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
 
SKILLS
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.
 
 
 
 
 








Privacy