Second-grade students visit The Eddy with spring decorations

As part of the second-grade Junior Achievement Program, Our Community, students in Dianthe McCarty's class created spring decorations and delivered them to The Eddy in Cohoes.

Through the Junior Achievement Program Our Community students examine responsibilities and economic opportunities available within a community. Through hands-on activities, the students learn about workers, the work they perform, why workers are paid, what taxes are and how they are used and where to save money. Junior Achievement's unique approach includes volunteers from the community to deliver the curriculum while sharing their experiences with students.

McCarty's classroom volunteer if former Harmony Hill School Principal Barbara Hildreth, who owns the knitting store BeauKnits in Cohoes.

One of the class' recent lessons was about individual production versus team production. To compare these two types of outputs, students decorated Easter eggs using both methods of production and then comparing them. The individual approach produced 43 eggs, while the assembly line approach ended with 88 eggs.