Educators

With over 55 years experience in Canada, Junior Achievement has influenced millions of youth to help achieve their dreams.  By inspiring youth to succeed in our global economy, Junior Achievement helps to prepare students for the real world.  We show young people how to become productive members of the workforce, manage their personal finances and to build on their entrepreneurial spirit.  

Learning from actual business leaders provides youth the confidence, belief and direction they need to succeed as leaders and citizens in a global community.  Junior Achievement mentors come from all walks of business. Through our partnership with educators and business, Junior Achievement mentors are able to inspire, prepare and empower young Canadians by offering them real-world knowledge of work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Learn more about how Junior Achievement programs can make a real world of difference in the classroom.

Junior Achievement programs relate to the following Ontario curriculum expectations:

Grade 1

Grade 1 Social Studies - The Local Community

Overall Expectations

• recognize that communities consist of various physical features and community facilities that meet human needs;

• describe how people in the community interact with each other and the physical

environment to meet human needs.

Specific Expectations

– list the occupations of some people in the community (e.g., storekeeper, hair stylist,mail carrier, farmer, teacher, police officer, firefighter, doctor, nurse, salesperson);

– identify the places in which people work and describe the technologies, tools, and vehicles they use;

– list a variety of occupations in the community and explain how they meet people’s needs

Grade 2

Grade 2 - Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Overall Expectations

• read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers

Specific Expectations

– represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 100, including money amounts to 100¢, using a variety of tools (e.g., ten frames, base ten materials, coin manipulatives, number lines, hundreds charts and hundreds carpets);

– add and subtract money amounts to 100¢, using a variety of tools (e.g., concrete materials, drawings) and strategies (e.g., counting on, estimating, representing using symbols)

Grade 3

Grade 3 Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Overall Expectations

• read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 1000, and use concrete materials to represent fractions and money amounts to $10;

Specific Expectations

– represent and describe the relationships between coins and bills up to $10 (e.g., “There are eight quarters in a toonie and ten dimes in a loonie.”);

– estimate, count, and represent (using the $ symbol) the value of a collection of coins and bills with a maximum value of $10;

– add and subtract money amounts, using a variety of tools (e.g., currency manipulatives, drawings), to make simulated purchases and change for amounts up to $10 (Sample problem:You spent 5 dollars and

75 cents on one item and 10 cents on another item. How much did you spend in total?);

Grade 3 Social Studies – Urban and Rural Communities

Overall Expectations

• identify and compare distinguishing features of urban and rural communities;

• use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate geographic

information about urban and rural communities;

• explain how communities interact with each other and the environment to meet human needs.

Specific Expectations

– identify geographic and environmental factors that explain the location of various

urban and rural communities, with examples from Ontario (e.g., Sudbury/mining,

Ottawa/government, Hamilton/industry, Bradford/farming);

Grade 4

Grade 4 Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Overall Expectations

• read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 10 000, decimal numbers to tenths, and simple fractions, and represent money amounts to $100;

• solve problems involving the addition, subtraction,multiplication, and division of single- and multi-digit whole numbers, and involving the addition and subtraction of decimal numbers to tenths and money amounts, using a variety of strategies;

Specific Expectations

– read and represent money amounts to $100 (e.g., five dollars, two quarters, one nickel, and four cents is $5.59);

– add and subtract money amounts by making simulated purchases and providing change for amounts up to $100, using a variety of tools (e.g., currency manipulatives, drawings);

– demonstrate an understanding of simple multiplicative relationships involving unit rates, through investigation using concrete materials and drawings (e.g., scale drawings in which 1 cm represents 2 m)

Grade 4 Social Studies – Canada’s Provinces,Territories, and Regions

Overall Expectations

• identify, analyse, and describe economic and cultural relationships that link communities

and regions within Ontario and across Canada.

Specific Expectations

– describe a variety of exchanges that occur among the communities and regions of Ontario (e.g., fruit from the Niagara Peninsula, nickel from Sudbury, vehicles from Oshawa, wild rice from Kenora, cranberries from Wahta First Nation) and among the provinces and territories (e.g., potatoes from Prince Edward Island, fish from British Columbia, grain from Saskatchewan, Inuit artwork from Nunavut);

– identify the natural resources necessary to create Canadian products, and the provinces and territories from which they originate (e.g., trees/furniture/Ontario);

– compare two or more regions (e.g., the Arctic and the Prairies), with respect to their physical environments and exchanges of goods and services;

– identify and describe a cause-and-effect relationship between the environment and the economy in a province or territory (e.g., overfishing on the Grand Banks; changes to landscape resulting from openpit mining or clear-cut logging);

Grade 5

Grade 5 Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Specific Expectations

– read and write money amounts to $1000 (e.g., $455.35 is 455 dollars and 35 cents, or four hundred fifty-five dollars and thirty-five cents);

– demonstrate an understanding of simple multiplicative relationships involving whole-number rates, through investigation using concrete materials and drawings (Sample problem: If 2 books cost $6, howwould you calculate the cost of 8 books?).

 – demonstrate, through investigation, an understanding of variables as changing quantities, given equations with letters or other symbols that describe relationships involving simple rates (e.g., the equations C = 3 x n and 3 x n = C both represent the relationship between the total cost (C), in dollars, and the number of sandwiches purchased (n), when each sandwich costs $3);

Grade 6

Grade 6 Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Specific Expectations

– represent relationships using unit rates (Sample problem: If 5 batteries cost $4.75, what is the cost of 1 battery?).

Grade 6 Social Studies – Canada’s Links to the World

Overall Expectations

• identify and describe Canada’s economic, political, social, and physical links with the

United States and other regions of the world;

Specific Expectations

– identify products that Canada imports and exports (e.g., imports: fruit, vegetables, chemicals, motor vehicles; exports:newsprint, grain, machinery, timber, telecommunications, natural gas);

– identify the countries to which Canada exports goods (e.g., the United States,

Japan, the United Kingdom, China, Germany);

– identify the countries from which Canada imports goods (e.g., the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom,Germany, other European countries,Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico);

Grade 7

Grade 7 Math - Number Sense and Numeration

Specific Expectations

– use estimation when solving problems involving operations with whole numbers, decimals, and percents, to help judge the reasonableness of a solution (Sample problem: A book costs $18.49. The salesperson

tells you that the total price, including taxes, is $22.37. How can you tell if the total price is reasonable without using a calculator?);

– solve problems involving the calculation of unit rates (Sample problem:You go shopping and notice that 25 kg of Ryan’s Famous Potatoes cost $12.95, and 10 kg of Gillian’s Potatoes cost $5.78. Which is the better deal? Justify your answer.).

Grade 8

Grade 8 Math -

Number Sense and Numeration, Patterning and Algebra

Specific Expectations

– solve problems involving percent that arise from real-life contexts (e.g., discount, sales tax, simple interest) (Sample problem: In Ontario, people often pay a provincial sales tax [PST] of 8% and a federal sales tax [GST] of 7% when they make a purchase. Does it matter which tax is calculated first? Explain your reasoning.);

– solve problems involving rates (Sample problem: A pack of 24 CDs costs $7.99. A pack of 50 CDs costs $10.45. What is the most economical way to purchase 130 CDs?).

– describe different ways in which algebra can be used in real-life situations (e.g., the value of $5 bills and toonies placed in a envelope for fund raising can be represented by the equation v = 5f + 2t);

– model linear relationships using tables of values, graphs, and equations (e.g., the sequence 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,… can be represented by the equation t = n + 1, where n represents the term number and t represents the term), through investigation using a variety of tools (e.g., algebra tiles, pattern blocks, connecting cubes, base ten materials) (Sample problem: Leah put $350 in a bank certificate that pays 4% simple interest each year. Make a table of values to show how much the bank certificate is worth after five years, using base ten materials to help you. Represent the relationship using an equation.);

Grade 9 and 10

Grade 9 and 10  Business Studies 

Introduction to Business BBI1O1 or BBI2O1

Grade 11

Grade 11 Business Studies 

Financial Accounting Fundamentals  BAF3M                                                              

Accounting Essentials  BAI3E      

Entrepeneurship: The Venture  BDI3C1

Entrepeneurship: The Enterprising Person BDP3O1

Grade 11 Canadian and World Studies - Economics

The Individual and the Economy  CIE3M1

Making Economic Choices CIC3E1

Grade 12

Grade 12 Business Studies 

Financial Accounting Principles BAT4M1

Accounting for a Small Business  BAN4E1

Entrepeneurship : Venture Planning in an Electronic Age BDV4C1

Business Leadership : Management Fundamentals  BOH4M1

Grade 12 Canadian and World Studies - Economics

Analysing Current Economic IssuesCIA4U1

 There also exist curriculum links to high school Mathematics curriculum at various grades and streams.

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