If you are over 90 minutes from Chesterfield, there is a way your students can experience JA Finance Park without the long drive. JA Finance Park Online offers the same classroom curriculum as our regular program. Instead of driving to our facility for the budgeting activity, students participate in an online budgeting program.
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JA Finance Park offers students a cross-curricular, experiential education in personal finance and career exploration through classroom instruction and active participation in a simulated community.
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Students study a four-week personal finance curriculum that concentrates on budgeting. Lessons cover spending (credit vs. debit, checking), saving and investing, taxes and salary, budgeting, and careers.
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The curriculum culminates with an online experience during which students create a monthly budget based on an assigned personal income and family scenario described on an individual “Life Situation” that is assigned to them.
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The JA Finance Park experience is divided into banking, clothing, education, entertainment, food, furniture, health care, home improvement, insurance, investment, real estate, transportation and utilities options. Each decision represents part of a student’s personal budget.
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At the conclusion of the online simulation, students pay their bills and adjust spending to balance their budgets.
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Please note: Junior Achievement of Mississippi Valley can only accept schools and students for this program in Missouri and southern Illinois that are not within the territory of another Junior Achievement office.
