JA British Columbia

More Than Money

• Grades 4-5
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Help students understand how proper money management can improve their lives and how their financial choices can impact others.

Our Business World

• Grades 5-6
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Helps students explore how businesses are created and what makes them thrive. Using games and multimedia, students learn about innovation, start-ups, and self-employment.

Business of Our Own

• Grades 6-8
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Gives students the hands-on learning experience of planning a business, producing and promoting their products, tracking their finances and managing a team.

• Grades 6-8
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Gives students the hands-on learning experience of planning a business, producing and promoting their products, tracking their finances and managing a team.

Dollars with Sense

• Grades 7-9
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Introduces students to personal money management skills including methods of payment, cost of credit, purchasing influences, online security, goal setting, budgeting, and the basics of investing.

Economics for Success

• Grades 8-10
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Encourages students to consider how they can prepare to enter the world of work by helping them map career clusters, consider post-secondary options, create a personal budget and develop strategies to achieve their goals.

• Grades 8-10
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons
• Encourages students to consider how they can prepare to enter the world of work by helping them map career clusters, consider post-secondary options, create a personal budget and develop strategies to achieve their goals.

Company Program- In-School 

• Grades 10-12
• Volunteer-Led
• Weekly sessions over 10-16 weeks + sales days + wrap up
• Students experience the excitement of planning and operating their own small business, giving them real-world skills to help them in their career path.

Be Entrepreneurial

• Grades 10-12
• Volunteer-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons + business pitch competition
• Students learn the essential components of launching a realistic entrepreneurial venture by a developing a plan and pitching ideas for their own business.

Investment Strategies Program

• Grades 10-12
• Teacher-Led
• 4 one-hour lessons + online competition
• Features a stock market simulation where students learn about the markets and investing by competing in an online challenge against students from across the country.

Titan

• Grades 10-12
• Teacher-Led
• 6 one-hour lessons + online competition
• Students take part in an interactive online business simulation where they become CEOs of their own company and gain the confidence to become entrepreneurs. They create a business strategy, make management decisions and strive to succeed in a highly competitive industry.