JA Our City®

JA Our City studies careers, the skills people need to work in specific careers, and how businesses contribute to a city. Five required, volunteer-led lessons.

JA Our City is a series of five lessons. The average time for each lesson is 60 minutes. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed activity plans for the volunteer and materials for students.

The goals and objective of the Program are:

help students discover a variety of occupations;
help students identify what types of businesses can be found in a typical city; develop the students’ understanding of how workers apply their skills to their jobs;
heighten the students’ awareness of the contributions of businesses to a city.

All JA programs are designed to support the skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. These programs also augment school-based, work-based, and connecting activities for communities with school-to-work initiatives.

Program Concepts

Banking, Business, Careers, City, City planner, Communication, Consumer, Decision, Economic development, Economic institutions, Entrepreneur, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs, Money, Producer, Quality, Resources, Skills, Specialization, Zones

Program Skills

Applying thinking skills, Compiling data, Conducting research, Creating readable documents, Developing ideas, Drawing, Filling out forms, Following directions, Identifying zones, Interpreting data, Interpreting directions, Listening critically,Teamwork