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Do I Have What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur - and is My Community Ready?
Discover the attributes of entrepreneurs and define what entrepreneurship is while examining data based on local businesses. Learners determine whether their community is supportive of entrepreneurs as they research economic development...
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Egg-streme Sports
Challenge small groups to build a structure that catches a raw egg without breaking—working collaboratively and applying mathematical and engineering principles. Pretending the frame was made by a business, scholars create a marketing...
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Business Forecasting
High schoolers examine the methods of business forecasting and their purpose. They calculate moving averages and predict future sales. They evaluate the reliability and validity of the techniques.
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Business Organisation - Lesson Plan: 1-2 x 1 hour lessons
Students are introduced to a business scenario. Students analyze strengths and weaknesses of a fictional organization.
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Introduction to Business Studies
Students examine what a business does. They study the business process - inputs through to outputs and explore how profit is made
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Global Factors influencing Business Strategy
Students identify global factors affecting strategic planning in businesses. They research factors facing issues wanting to expand into China. They present their findings to the class.
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Business Analysis and Sales Forecasting - Lesson Plan: 3 x 1 hour lessons
Students view and discuss a PowerPoint presentation (provided as a link on the lesson plan). Students analyze trends and problems bussinesses face in establishing and identifying trends.
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Business Location
Students consider factors that modern business, in the light of technological and economic changes, might have to consider in decisions to re-locate. The Activity is based around a scenario of a business selling CDs and DVDs to a variety...
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Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business?
Students discuss the motivation behind owning your own business. They plan a course of action to research the pros and cons of owning a business and then share their information with the rest of the class as a follow up activity.
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BE-01-01 Introduction to Business Ethics
Students explore ethics. In this business ethics lesson, students watch "The Corporation" and discuss employee policies, community outreach, and business models. Students consider various scenarios that encourage authentic student...
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Starting Your Own Business
Fifth graders read a book and complete several correlating activities to learn how to start their own business. In this economic and math lesson plan, 5th graders read the book The Toothpaste Millionaire. Students define the term...
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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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Business Strategy with Asia: Outsourcing or Not?
Students examine the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing personnel resources to Asia. They investigate through internet research as well as community business leaders why businesses outsource to other countries. In the end,...
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The Apprentice: A Study of Business and Technical Writing
Students explore business practices by creating a portfolio in class. In this business writing lesson, students identify the causes for a businesses success and failure before deciding on a business they would like to create. Students...
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Internet Shopping Business Idea
Students create their own Internet business based on data they find concerning trends in Internet shopping. They discuss advantages and disadvantages to selling specific products and/or services over the Internet.
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Develop An Individual Career Plan
Students research, investigate and develop an individual career plan. They analyze all their career options and goals. Each student fine tunes their interviewing and written skills as they prepare to seek certain jobs out in the work force.
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City and Empire: Roman History, Planned Communities
Students research various planned communities and consider the pros and cons of such a development. They realize that planned communities have advocates and detractors and use these considerations when planning their own community.
Hackers Lesson Plan Template
Describe the threat of viruses to computer/ network.
Illustrate the methods for avoiding attacks.
Explain the consequences of social, illegal, and unethical uses of technology (e.g., piracy; illegal downloading; licensing...
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Writing Right
Does your class have the write stuff? Young career seekers try their hand at composing business letters in the second of six career and college readiness lesson plans for seniors. Pupils practice writing cover letters, thank you notes,...
School Improvement in Maryland
Smart Growth
New roads, new businesses, new developments, new mass transit systems. All growth has both positive and negative effects on communities. Government classes investigate the principles of Maryland's 1997 Smart Growth program and the...
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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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Writing Business Letters of Request
Tenth graders model proper format and elements of business letters. They review effective writing styles and write a request letter. Students also read a short story that includes conflict irony and symbolism They create a chart...
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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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Business Cycles in the Four-Corners
Learners are introduced to new vocabulary associated with business cycles. In groups, they read excerpts from their textbook about the causes and effects of business cycles. To end the instructional activity, they identify the...