Junior Achievement Day was filled with fun and educational activities for students at Susan E. Wiley Elementary. Students in grades K-5 participated in six different hands-on lessons taught by representatives from major corporations, including this year’s major corporate sponsor, Ernst & Young. “Junior Achievement’s programs are intended to change students’ lives by helping them understand business and economics through a series of lessons tied into state math and social studies curricula,” commented Assistant Principal, Dr. Randee Bonagura.
While kindergarteners listened to stories about working, earning, and saving money, second graders were busy making “donuts” and learning the value of assembly line procedures versus single unit production. Each student was given an individual ingredient to add to the donuts and was taught that an assembly line would benefit production by providing the most efficient and cost-effective way to make a product. Third graders in Mrs. Linda Drenckhahn’s class were excited to construct a large 3D city on a floor map as a culmination of their lessons about city planning, economics, and zoning. The students decorated and labeled 3D cutouts of buildings and placed them in specific areas on a large, colorful floor map.
Throughout the day, other lessons involved learning about needs versus wants, identifying resources and making decisions, and creating a web of interconnectivity after learning about the global economy.
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