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Trade Creates Opportunities for Individuals

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how trade can be a vehicle for the alleviation of poverty. They conduct Internet research, analyze organizations that help to alleviate poverty, and create a business plan for a micro business for a developing economy.
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Presentation Software: Technology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners open the AutoContent Wizard in PowerPoint and create a business presentation.
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Entrepreneur Profit Balloon Game with Physical Education

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore business by participating in physical activities. In this entrepreneur lesson, 4th graders define profit and how it is necessary to run a successful business. Students pop balloons with monetary values inside and...
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External Influences 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the main objectives of the government. They apply economic data to different scenerios. They present their findings to the class.
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Screw It, Let's Do It

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Students examine the possible application of the lessons drawn from business life in personal life. They are told that each section of the book has a heading indicationg a lesson Richard Branson has drawn from in his life. Students work...
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Careers in Philanthropy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare businesses that are nonprofit and for profit. In this philanthropy lesson, students sort photographs of local businesses into profit and nonprofit businesses. Students construct a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the...
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There's No Accountin with Ledgers

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders create and maintain a ledger, write an essay for the process, and learn to keep financial accounts through the ledger. In this ledger lesson, 10th graders define an accounting ledger and create one for the money they've...
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Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore impact of smoking in workplaces. In this health awareness lesson, students act as owners and managers of different types of business locations. They develop smoking policies and defend them by responding to students...
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Entrepreneurship: Is it for me?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers get an introduction to entrepreneurship and business plans in the first instructional activity of this series. They attempt to determine what personal factors to consider in deciding if the time is right to become an...
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I Want To Be an Entrepreneur

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students define the word entrepreneur as they create a business. In this economics lesson, students understand the elements of creating a successful business and record them. Students create a commercial for their businesses.
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Writing Persuasive Letters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write persuasive business letters to candy companies suggesting ways to change their products to make them more enjoyable and increase sales. Prior to writing their letters, they conduct Internet research about the companies and...
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Accounting

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explore the principals of accounting and operating a business.  In this business or financial math class, students investigate business documents, day books, bookkeeping, balance sheets, etc. in this self-paced...
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Putting it On Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students locate and print samples of two different business letter formats. They write rough drafts of business letters inquiring when, where, and how math is used.
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Benjamin Franklin- Philanthropist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and read a profile of Benjamin Franklin. In this philanthropic lesson plan, students research the projects of Benjamin Franklin and determine which were philanthropic, which were governmental and which were business...
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Cooking Lesson About Goods for Entrepreneur Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experience how businesses are started. In this goods and services lesson, 4th graders learn the story of an Indiana man who started his own chocolate business. Students watch a video about his life and discuss the...
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Have It Your Way...and FAST!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain the importance of technology in a wide range of businesses. They focus on the application of technology in fast-food restaurants, then interview an upper-level employee at a local business.
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What is Entrepreneurship?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe the entrepreneurial process and how it relates to the economy. They work together in small groups to answer questions and participate in small business groups. They use the internet to gather information as well.
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Career Exploration

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars complete a unit about career choices. They conduct research on a selected career that interests them, conduct an interview, explore various websites, create a five-page HyperStudio stack, and write ten checks that relate...
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Alarm as the Clock Ticks Toward 2000

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how various people and businesses are reacting to the potential technological problems that may occur when the year 2000 arrives. They read and compare two related New York Times articles and share their own views of the...
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Trading Nations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the impact of a global economy on the workers, business leaders and governments of China and the United States.
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FOREST GRUMP: Examining How Deforestation Affects Plants and Animals of the Canadian Boreal

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider definition of an ecosystem as it relates to the Canadian boreal, discover how deforestation affects this forest and recreate ecosystems. They write persuasive letters urging politicians or business people to help save...
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Dining In

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a business plan for improving their school cafeteria.
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music In America - Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify general business terms such as entrepreneur, corporation, marketing, demographic, promotion and distribution. They identify many Black music industry leaders and their contributions.
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Graph It with Coffee!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview employers and employees at local coffee shops about sales and profits and create graphs comparing and contrasting information obtained about the businesses.

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