Junior Achievement Teaches 3A About Economics!

Last Wednesday, our school had several people (sponsored by Junior Achievement) come in to teach us about economics.  Our volunteer, Christi Stevens, works at a Huntington Bank.  She taught us about what city planners do.  We got to pick our own "business" to color and place on the map of our town--which we named "Boom Town." (We had just read "Boom Town" by Sonia Levitin.)

For our next activity, we pretended to go to a zoo.  Christi "gave" us a $10 gift card each to spend at the zoo so we had to decide what we could buy and still stay in budget--oh, and we couldn't forget about sales tax.

Then we learned how to write checks.  So Christi had us write checks to Mrs. Pfeiffer for "pretend" candy.  She said that she will deposit them in her "pretend" bank.  :)

For our last activity, we played a game called "That's LIFE!"  We had to deposit or withdraw money, depending on what the space or card said, and show our math on our check register.  It was A LOT of fun!  :)

Thank you, Christi and Junior Achievement!  We had SOOOOOO much fun !  :)