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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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Business Forecasting
Students 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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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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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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Internet Shopping Business Idea
Learners 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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Create A Business and A Life
Students 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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Picture a Business
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Franchise Opportunity
High schoolers identify and evaluate franchise as a business opportunity. Lesson is culminating project in a business course.
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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,...
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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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Creating a Business Card
Students 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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WRITING BUSINESS & PERSONAL LETTERS
Students write both a business letter and a personal letter to Jamie Bastedo at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center to request his presence at a drama presentation for a unit on Northern Studies: Europeans and Fur Traders, which...
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Informational Writing: Business Letter
Fifth graders write business letters. In this business letter instructional activity, 5th graders discuss the format and reasons for writing a business letter. They pick who they want to write to and create their own letter.Â
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Business Practices and Competition
Learners identify the costs and benefits of large corporations and monopoly industries. Using the internet, they discover how businesses use different types of exploitation to maximize their profits. They read two articles about plants...
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Free Enterprise System
What are the benefits of a having a free enterprise system. In groups, your young entrepreneurs create a new business concept and brochure, then work independently to write a brief essay on business freedoms. This a fun and motivating...
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Networking for Nonprofits
Students investigate how important networking is to businesses and non-profit organizations. They examine fundraising options and design a flyer advertising a fundraising event.
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The Hot Dog Stand - An Annual Report
Students run a computer simulation and collect data as they work and use the data to create an annual report for their business. It is desirable for students to do this project individually, but it could be done as a class using a large...
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The Growth Of A Business
Students explore the growth of businesses from single proprietorships to corporations. They compare and contrast single proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. In closing, students explore the pros and cons of each type of...
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Types of Entrepreneurs
What does it take to be an entrepreneur? What traits does a person need? Find out as you and your class brainstorm along with this presentation. The traits of inventors, types of entrepreneurs, and their role in the economy are...
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Business Ownership: Private Sector - Lesson Plan: 2 x 1 hour lessons
Students study different forms of business ownership. They examine advantages and disadvantages of different forms of business ownership and the appropriateness of different forms of business ownership. They study how business ownership...
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Understanding the Workplace
Local business is a huge part of the economy; explore the small companies in your own neighborhood with a career study instructional activity. Begin with a class discussion about types of local business before splitting scholars into...
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The Economy and Politics
In this economy and politics sociology worksheet, students complete 14 fill in the blank questions and 7 multiple choice questions regarding the how businesses operate in different economies and under various political control.
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Phrases and Clauses
Clarify the different types of phrases and clauses that young writers can use to vary their sentence structure. A helpful slideshow presentation encourages your class to fix sentences by adding more interesting phrases and clauses,...
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Focus on Economic Data: US Employment and the Unemployment Rate, March, 2012
Read all about the various types of unemployment and the United States is are currently at the low-point of an unemployment cycle. Kids examine what economic factors affect the unemployment rate, and what data shows for different US...