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Grade 3: Our Community - Needs, Jobs, Tools
Teachers: Click here to register your class online for this program!
Program Description
Give students the building blocks of a successful career, right here at home. Our Community - Needs, Jobs, Tools provides elementary school students with perspective on the importance and impact of business in shaping our lives. Students actively define the cornerstones of a strong society and learn about their role in its growth and prosperity. Get Back to Their Roots Demonstrate the value of skills, money and resources by exploring various family and economic situations. Our Community - Needs, Jobs, Tools gives students a first-hand look at how they can become better prepared for business and make a positive impact in their community. Ensure future success builds upon a solid foundation of home-grown knowledge and skills.
- Practice interviewing people with job experience
- Role-play and imitate the characteristics of different jobs
- Complete the cycle of earning and spending
- Create a mural to illustrate and describe tools in the workplace
Students Achieve Greater understanding of how jobs satisfy the needs of people living in their community. Improved ability to acquire and comprehend new information Appreciation of the tools and skills necessary to perform different jobs.
Your Junior Achievement Experience Like other Junior Achievement programs, Our Community - Needs, Jobs, Tools is curriculum-linked, student centred and skills focused. It can be delivered by a qualified business volunteer once per week for 40-60 minutes over a four week period, at no cost to schools or groups.
Volunteer Profile:
Volunteers should be interested in working with young children. He/she may have a parental and/or an early childhood education background. Volunteers should be able to work in a structured classroom environment. Volunteers must be comfortable with young children i.e. sitting on the floor, circle time etc. We currently have volunteers teaching from a corporate, business and professional background as well as University and college students.
Next Steps?
For more information or to register to participate in Our Community as either a class or a volunteer, contact Kelli Cook, Program Manager, at (902) 368-7211 or kcook@japei.org or simply fill out our online registration form!
“I liked having a business person teach us because when I’m older I will know how to be a good at my job.” Student, Grade 3
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