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Middle Schools

Middle Grades
  • JA Global Marketplace provides practical information about the global economy and its effect on students' lives.

  • Our World focuses on imports and exports, the role of foreign exchange, how countries are interdependent, and issues that affect trade.

  • Personal Economics focuses on skills and interests, career options, and personal and family financial management while lesson plans reveal how students' decisions about education, careers, spending, and investing impact their economic role in society.

  • JA Enterprise in Action describes the principal characteristics of the US economic system and the role of business in it as students discover what it takes to start and run a business.

  • The International Marketplace examines how people and cultures throughout the world are connected through trade. Students study world maps and economic data, debate issues surrounding trade, and practice converting currencies.

  • The Economics of Success explores personal finance and students' education and career options based on their skills, interests, and values. It also demonstrates the economic benefits of staying in school.

  • JA Go Figure! Exploring Math in Business introduces business concepts through math exercises while students discover the practical application of math principles in business and everyday life.

  • America Works focuses on the impact of business and entrepreneurship and the economic development of the US during the 1800's.

  • Capstone Experience JA City helps students build a foundation for making intelligent, lifelong, personal financial decisions through a hands-on, realistic site-based experience.