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Making Good Investments
Students compare different aspects of investing money from traditional savings accounts to money market accounts. They research investment accounts at local banks and compare them.
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Create A Business and A Life
Learners look through a phone book and pick a business they think they would enjoy. They brainstorm ideas about the needs of a business. They set their prices to payback their investment into the new business.
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PLANNING A DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
Twelfth graders research stocks and how to read and interpret financial data. They choose 5 companies to invest in and track their performance over 10 weeks. They create a spreadsheet which shows the results.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Illusion or Reality?
Learners explore and debate the advantages and disadvantages of corporate social responsibility versus increased government regulation. They create a board game to give an employee an opportunity to rise to the top of a large company.
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Exploring Corporate Codes of Conduct
Students use the Internet to analyze and compare corporate codes of conduct of Canadian companies.
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The Ice Cream Shop
Second graders read books about ice cream and plan an ice cream sundae party for the class. They research ingredients and determine how much the party cost each student. They hold a mock opening for an ice cream store and have their party.
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Critical Path Analysis
Students examine the key requirements of critical path analysis, and analyze the purpose, benefits and limitations of using such a tool. In this business activity, students apply the principles of critical path analysis to a business...
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Power Point Presentations
Students explore the Powerpoint program and create slides, transitions, sound, background and graphics.
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Creating a Business Card
Pupils create a personal business card that contains a digital photograph of themselves, a logo or graphic, and a quote to live by. They apply design concepts and color theory to their projects based on its intended audience.
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Data Processing
Students explore the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in a variety of businesses and organizations. They present proposals, representing different businesses and organizations, that support how GIS technology could...
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What Is a Business?
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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Your Role as a Taxpayer: Why Pay Taxes?
Students evaluate the basic rationale, nature, and consequences fo taxes. They describe why governments need taxes as revenue to provide goods and servicesin this series of activities.
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What is Taxed and Why
Students are exposed to the need for federal, state and local governments to tax constituents to provide goods and services for their residents. They identify the different kinds of taxes and give examples of the goods and services taxed.
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The Three Forms Of Business
Eleventh graders identify and define, in writing, the three forms of business organizations. After a lecture/demo, 11th graders complete an assignment that's imbedded in this plan. They discover the advantages, and disadvantages, of each...
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Grocery Shopping and Budgeting
Ninth graders establish a food budget based on individual needs and resources. They evaluate grocery stores and establish guidelines for purchasing specific foods.
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Power House
Students reflect, speculate, identify, research, and create a blueprint for renewable energy sources.
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A Pottery Business In Asia
Students read and discuss some material about Neerja International, a successful business in India, then construct a role play about how the business began. Students role play as people trying to start up their own business and learn...
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Business Phrasal Verbs Exercise
In this business phrasal verb worksheet, learners match the phrasal verb to the meaning of the verb. Students then translate the meaning of the phrasal verb and use the phrasal verbs in sentences.
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Entrepreneurs
Students explore becoming entrepreneurs. For this career exploration lesson, students work in small groups to begin a new business that they will "build" from scratch as they learn what it takes to create a successful business by using...
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Enterprise Worksheet 7
In these stock exchange worksheets, students study 2 diagrams and answer 3 questions about the stock exchange and celebrity shares.
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Business Worksheet
In this stock market worksheet, students unscramble and define 5 terms about the stock market. Students answer then answer 4 questions about shares and the stock market.
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Break-Even Analysis Worksheet
In this analysis activity, students solve accounting problems when provided with variables to be used in computations. Using data provided, students must answer questions showing they understand key terms such as fixed and variable costs.
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Running The Business
In this career worksheet, students are asked to look at the six stages necessary for the success of running a hypothetical new business.
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Organization Matrix Word Search
In this business instructional activity, students find the vocabulary term that focuses upon organizational effectiveness and the answers are at the bottom of the page.