Welcome!
Junior Achievement
Our City® Program
Day 1: Inside Cities
Objectives:
Students will be able to
•Define a city as a place where people live, work, play
and go to school
•Learn about the different zones used in city planning
•Identify the job of a city planner within a city
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I’m your volunteer!
About me and why I’m here:
•Our program
•What I do
•When I was in school…
I’m happy to meet you and excited
to spend time learning together!
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How would you describe a city?
Discuss with a partner
1 minute
A city has lots of special areas called zones.
A zone is an area set aside for a certain
purpose, like houses, business or school.
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Have you seen these zones in
our city?
Group work expectations
• Group members should each have an important job, like:
• Speaker
• Writer/artist
• Discussion leader
• Timer
• Respect each other’s opinion
• Group members should all be part of the discussion
If you had to plan zones
for this classroom, how
would you design the room?
Group work
5 minutes
Complete the zones worksheet by
sharing ideas in your group
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What is a city planner?
In a city, a city planner is someone
who decides, through careful study,
what types of buildings should go
where.
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What are some zones in our city?
Business Zone
Farming Zone
Industrial Zone
Residential Zone
Multipurpose Zone
Have you seen these zones in or
near our city?
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Group Work
2 minutes
Look at your photo, what zone
do you think this is?
• What are the people doing?
• Do people live here?
• Do people work here?
• Can you buy things here?
Questions?
•Why are zones needed to make a city
run smoothly?
•What would happen if a city had no city
planner?
Discuss in your groups
2 minutes
Look around on your way home today and think about
what zones you see!
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Thanks, see you next time!
Clean up:
Put your nametag inside your Junior
Journal and turn them in.
Take home the postcard and
magnet.
Next time: We build a city!
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Day 2: Building a City
Objectives:
Students will be able to
•Understand the importance of the construction
business to a city’s economy
•Recognize the skills a builder needs
•Identify how the builder’s job relates to the job of a
city planner
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It’s great to see you
again!
Let’s remember…
What is a zone?
Why is a zone important?
What does a city planner do?
Why is a city planner’s job important?
Pick 2 questions and discuss with a partner
3 minutes
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Today, we’re going to learn about
the construction business!
What is construction?
Construction is the process of putting
something together, or building.
City planners tell builders where they are
allowed to build certain buildings within
certain zones.
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There are 5 zones in our city.
Can you remember their names?
Can you remember what goes in them?
Discuss with a partner
2 minutes
Let’s look around the
classroom.
•What are some jobs a builder might have
done here?
•What challenges might he or she have faced?
•What tools did he or she use?
•What skills did he or she need?
Pick 2 questions and discuss with a partner
3 minutes
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A blueprint is an
important tool!
A blueprint is a detailed set of instructions
to make sure a building is built right. We use
blueprints to build many things, like houses
and office buildings.
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Let’s look at an example of a
blueprint.
Builders always check their work to make sure they are
following directions properly and making a quality building.
Practice taking measurements on your blueprint.
Use the scale to figure out what the
real size of this building will be!
Work on your own
5 minutes
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Work on your own
10 minutes
Now, let’s build our own city!
• Write your name on your building
• Write the name of your business on your building
• Carefully build your building – remember, quality is
important!
Think about:
• What zone does your building belong in?
• What materials were used to build your building?
Questions?
•What would have happened if you had constructed
your building with the wrong measurements?
•Why is it important that you build a building
correctly?
•What should we name our city?
Discuss with a partner
3 minutes
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Thanks, see you next time!
Clean up:
Put your nametag inside your Junior Journal
and turn them in.
Take home your blueprint worksheet and
leave your building on the zone map.
Next time: We become restaurant
owners!
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Day 3: Dining Out
Objectives:
Students will be able to
•Make group decisions necessary to start a restaurant
•Decide on a type of restaurant
•Discuss and select the best location for a restaurant
•Decide what to charge for meals
•Select an employee
•Promote the restaurant
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It’s great to see you
again!
Let’s remember…
How do city planners and construction
workers work together?
What zone does a restaurant belong in?
Discuss with a partner
2 minutes
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Today, we’re going to learn about
the restaurant business!
A restaurant needs both consumers and
producers to be successful.
Consume means to buy or use a good or service.
What is a consumer?
Produce means to make something.
What is a producer?
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Who is a consumer and who is a
producer?
A consumer uses things
A producer builds things
A producer makes things
A consumer buys things
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Is it possible to be both a
consumer and a producer?
An entrepreneur is a producer
who creates and organizes a
new business
Let’s become entrepreneurs and start our
own restaurant business!
Let’s brainstorm:
•What are some of our favorite restaurants in our
city?
•What important decisions do you think the
restaurant owners had to make before they opened
their restaurants?
Discuss with a partner
2 minutes
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Planning our restaurant
Place: What is the best location?
Product: What type of food will you serve?
Price: How much will you charge for a meal?
People: Who will you hire first?
Promotion (advertising): How do you want to
tell people about your new restaurant?
Group work
15 minutes
Complete the Reci-P’s for Success
worksheet by sharing ideas in your group
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Let’s compare answers!
Which choices would make our restaurant
the most successful?
What other important decisions should we
think about before we open our restaurant?
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Thanks, see you next time!
Clean up:
Put your nametag inside your Junior Journal
and turn them in.
Take home your Reci-P’s for Success
worksheet and turn in your group’s poster.
Next time: We learn about the
newspaper business!
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Day 4: Making Headlines
Objectives:
Students will be able to
•Understand the importance of the newspaper as a
communication tool.
•Recognize the skills a reporter needs.
•Generate article topics and develop article outlines.
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It’s great to see you
again!
Let’s remember…
Why do cities have zones?
What zone does a newspaper belong in?
Discuss with a partner
2 minutes
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Today, we’re going to learn
about the newspaper business!
• Why is it important for a city to have
news?
• How do we get our news?
Let’s look at a newspaper:
The Junior Achievement Post
November 1, 2010
Issue 1
LOCAL NEWS
Third Grade Students Build
Their Own City
Title of
Paper
Section Name
Headline
By: A. Volunteer
Third grade students in Maryland are enjoying
the Junior Achievement “Our City” program this
year and have gotten to build and name their
own city! Students learned about zones,
construction and blueprints, and used their new
skills to make buildings and build a city.
Students are learning about the important jobs
that they can have so they can help make their
city a better place to live.
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What information do reporters
include in a newspaper article?
•Who is the newspaper article about?
•What happened?
•When did it happen?
•Where did it happen?
•Why did it happen?
The Five W’s!
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Let’s become reporters!
Use your article paper to write a story for our city’s
newspaper. Write a story that would fit in the section
that you are assigned to:
•Entertainment: plays, books, movies, computer games
•Sports: school, city, national or international
•Business: new products and stores
•School News: new rules, new programs, new teachers,
school events
Work on your own
20 minutes
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Questions?
•Why is it important to know the news in our city?
•What challenges do you think a reporter faces?
•How can a newspaper help an entrepreneur?
•What should we name our newspaper?
Pick 2 questions and discuss with a partner
3 minutes
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Thanks, see you next time!
Clean up:
Put your nametag inside your Junior Journal
and turn them in.
Read the newspaper this week!
Next time: We learn about banks!
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Day 5: You Can Bank on It
Objectives:
Students will be able to
•Understand that the purpose of a bank is to keep
money
•Complete a single bank transaction
•Balance a checkbook
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It’s great to see you
again!
Let’s remember…
How do news reporters work with people
in our city?
What zone does a bank belong in?
Discuss with a partner
2 minutes
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Today, we’re going to learn about banks!
Let’s brainstorm:
What is a bank for?
Why is it important for a city to have a bank?
How does a bank work?
Discuss with a partner
4 minutes
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At the bank, you can:
Deposit money into your account
Deposit means “add”
Withdraw money from your account
Withdraw means “subtract”
You use a deposit ticket to deposit money:
Let’s fill out a deposit ticket together!
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You can write a check to withdraw
money:
Let’s write a check together!
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Let’s practice using a bank account in our city!
Group Activity
10 minutes
Follow instructions to complete your deposit
ticket, write your check, buy a newspaper and
a meal in our city.
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A check registry is an important tool to keep
track of the money in your bank account.
Why do you think it is important to keep track of your
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money?
Questions?
•Why are banks important to people in a city?
•What skills do you need to use a bank account?
•How does a bank help consumers?
•How does a bank help producers?
Pick 2 questions and discuss with a partner
4 minutes
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Thanks for learning
with me!
Clean up:
Put your nametag inside your Junior Journal,
collect all of your worksheets and take them
home.
Congratulations on finishing the
Junior Achievement Our City® Program!
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