Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe key terms, create and presentation, a newsletter, identify advertisements, and create a commercial.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What do the following key terms have to do with business

• Complements
• Substitutions
• Trade-offs
• Opportunity Costs 

Partners 10 minutes: List as many complements as you can.

Activity 25 minutes: Keynote Presentations notes for presentation

Newsletter 25 minutes: Title of Business, Where Business is, when business is open, Product being Sold with price, Picture, Slogan.
Reading 15 minutes: #1-2
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify key terms, create keynotes, and newsletters regarding businesses, and share current events.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe the following Key Terms: Variable Costs, Fixed Costs, Total Costs, Revenue, Profit, Free Enterprise, competition. 
Share with Partner 5 minutes: Students share with partners.
Finishing Keynotes 25 minutes: Teacher will check students work and have them beginning notes

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract
3. Start Up Cost Breakdown
4. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs
5. Profit Projection
6. Conclusion.

Current Events 20 minutes: Students will find articles regarding business

1. Title of Article
2. Summary of article

Newsletter 20 minutes: Title of Business, Where Business is, when business is open, Product being Sold with price, Picture, Slogan.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Upcoming events.

Monday, January 31, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify key terms, create keynotes, and newsletters regarding businesses, and share current events.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe the following Key Terms: Variable Costs, Fixed Costs, Total Costs, Revenue, Profit, Free Enterprise, competition. 
Share with Partner 5 minutes: Students share with partners.
Finishing Keynotes 25 minutes: Teacher will check students work and have them beginning notes

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract
3. Start Up Cost Breakdown
4. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs
5. Profit Projection
6. Conclusion.

Current Events 20 minutes: Students will find articles regarding business

1. Title of Article
2. Summary of article

Newsletter 20 minutes: Title of Business, Where Business is, when business is open, Product being Sold with price, Picture, Slogan.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Upcoming events.

Friday, January 27, 2012, Business

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Into 5 minutes
Warm up 15 minutes: Profile in Economics Tony Hawk #1-2
Keynote 20 minutes:

• Start Up Costs
• Cost of each product sold and number sold to meet start up costs
• Profit Projection after 100 sold

Current Events 5 minutes: Go over new current events.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Big Ideas


B1:
Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Warm Up 20 minutes: Describe Responsibility: As a Student, as a Parent, as a employee, and as a Employer

• Describe
• Picture

Current 15 minutes: Share with Three People
Closing 5 minutes: review Big Ideas.

Thursday, January 26, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe a free enterprise economy, share 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen and create a power point.
Warm Up 15 minutes: When you get a job, list three goals you have for that job.
Lecture 20 minutes: Economic and Social Goals.
Activity 15 minutes: Rate Importance
Reading 15 minutes: Profile in Economics Tony Hawk #1-2
Keynote 20 minutes:

• Start Up Costs
• Cost of each product sold and number sold to meet start up costs
• Profit Projection after 100 sold

Current Events 5 minutes: Go over new current events.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Big Ideas.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe a free enterprise economy, share 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen and create a power point.
Warm Up 15 minutes: When you get a job, list three goals you have for that job.
Lecture 20 minutes: Economic and Social Goals.
Activity 15 minutes: Rate Importance
Sharing 20 minutes: Win-Win Posters
Reading 15 minutes: Profile in Economics Tony Hawk #1-2
Keynote 20 minutes:

• Start Up Costs
• Cost of each product sold and number sold to meet start up costs
• Profit Projection after 100 sold

Closing 5 minutes: Review Big Ideas.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify key terms, share the importance of the 7 Habits of a Highly effective teen.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Collect five pictures that express responsibility.
Vocabulary 25 minutes: Variable Cost, Fixed Cost, Total Cost, Revenue, Profit, Free Enterprise, and Competition.
Sharing Posters 30 minutes: Posters on think win-win
Key Note 20 minutes:

1. Start Up Cost Breakdown
2. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Monday, January, 23, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Standard: Understanding basic economic principles.
Objectives: SWBAT identify basic economic key terms, and point out the importance of the 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen.
Warm Up 13 minutes: Find five pictures online illustrating responsibility
Share 2 minutes: With a friend and pick your favorite picture.
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Variable Costs, Fixed Costs, Total Costs, Revenue, Profit, Free Enterprise, competition- Define, Picture, Significance.

Inquiry 15 minutes and Reading: What does it mean to think Win-Win? p. 146-147

Poster 30 minutes: p. 146-161

• Title
• Three Important things to know
• Summary
• Picture

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Friday, January 20, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify the importance of 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen
Warm Up Reading 15 minutes: "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?"

• Three Facts
• Two Questions
• Summarize

Review 25 minutes: Describe the importance of each one in two sentences for each. Describe how they each relate in a final paragraph. 

1. The Personal Bank Account
2. Habit 1- Be Proactive
3. Habit 2- Begin with the End in Mind
4. Habit 3- Put First Things First
5. The Relationship Bank Account

B1 ( Posters 30 minutes, Share 15 minutes)

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Thursday, January 19, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify the importance of the 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen, and present a small business.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Write a story about a time you had to be responsible.
Reading 15 minutes: "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?"

• Three Facts
• Two Questions
• Summarize

Review 25 minutes: Describe the importance of each one in two sentences for each. Describe how they each relate in a final paragraph. 

1. The Personal Bank Account
2. Habit 1- Be Proactive
3. Habit 2- Begin with the End in Mind
4. Habit 3- Put First Things First
5. The Relationship Bank Account

Inquiry 15 minutes and Reading: What does it mean to think Win-Win? p. 146-147

Poster 30 minutes: p. 146-161

• Title
• Three Important things to know
• Summary
• Picture

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday,. January 17, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, objectives, attendance, pledge of allegiance, and agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify key terms describing basic economic principles and develop a small business.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Define the following Key Terms: Variable Cost, Fixed Costs, and Total Costs
Activity 20 minutes: Make a list of variable costs and fixed costs for your small business and then sum up total costs.
Keynote Presentation 20 minutes:

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract

Review 10 minutes: Key Terms:

1. Business
2. Economics
3. Scarcity 
4. Land, Labor, Capital
5. Goods
6. Services
7. Durable Goods
8. Nondurable Goods
9. Capital Goods
10. Consumer goods

Quiz 20 minutes: Defining Key Terms.

Reading 10 minutes: Money:Coins and Paper
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and key terms.

Friday, January 13, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Warm Up 10 minutes: Please describe the importance of responsibility.

Review 25 minutes: Describe the importance of each one in two sentences for each. Describe how they each relate in a final paragraph. 

1. The Personal Bank Account
2. Habit 1- Be Proactive
3. Habit 2- Begin with the End in Mind
4. Habit 3- Put First Things First
5. The Relationship Bank Account

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Thursday, January 12, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance, Agenda
Standards: 12.1 Understand Basic Economic Concepts
Warm Up 15 minutes: Review following Key terms:

1. Business
2. Economics
3. Scarcity 
4. Land, Labor, Capital
5. Goods
6. Services
7. Durable Goods
8. Nondurable Goods
9. Capital Goods
10. Consumer goods

Cost Analysis 20 minutes: How much will it cost to make one unit? How much can you sell it for? How much can you expect to make? Is it profitable?

Keynote Presentation 20 minutes:

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract
3. Start Up Cost Breakdown
4. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs
5. Profit Projection
6. Conclusion.

Review 25 minutes: Describe the importance of each one in two sentences for each. Describe how they each relate in a final paragraph. 

1. The Personal Bank Account
2. Habit 1- Be Proactive
3. Habit 2- Begin with the End in Mind
4. Habit 3- Put First Things First
5. The Relationship Bank Account

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Business

Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance,  and Agenda.
Standards: Students understand basic economic principles.
Objectives: SWBAT describe basic economic concepts and create a presentation displaying those principles.
Character Trait 20 minutes: Responsibility Acrostic Poem. Class Poem
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe to the best of you knowledge a good and a service as it pertains to business.
Mini Lecture 15 minutes; Goods: Durable, Nondurable, Consumer, and Capital, Services
Poster 25 minutes: Groups of Four Durable Goods, Nondurable goods, Services- Circle Consumer Goods, and square capital goods.
Research 20 minutes: $100 Start up costs: Describe How many units you will need to sell to pay for start up costs.
Keynote Presentation 20 minutes:

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract
3. Start Up Cost Breakdown
4. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs
5. Profit Projection
6. Conclusion.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives. 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance,  and Agenda.
Standards: Students understand basic economic principles.
Objectives: SWBAT describe basic economic concepts and create a presentation displaying those principles.
Character Trait 20 minutes: Responsibility Acrostic Poem. Class Poem
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe to the best of you knowledge a good and a service as it pertains to business.
Mini Lecture 15 minutes; Goods: Durable, Nondurable, Consumer, and Capital, Services
Poster 25 minutes: Groups of Four Durable Goods, Nondurable goods, Services- Circle Consumer Goods, and square capital goods.
Research 20 minutes: $100 Start up costs: Describe How many units you will need to sell to pay for start up costs.
Keynote Presentation 20 minutes:

1. Title/ Name of Business
2. Business Abstract
3. Start Up Cost Breakdown
4. Cost of Product and number sold to reach start up costs
5. Profit Projection
6. Conclusion.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives. 

Monday, January, 9, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Standards: Standards: 12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Why is it important when creating a business to ask these three questions: What to Produce, How to Produce, For Whom to Produce?
Comic Life 20 minutes: Finish Small Business Comic Life on What to Produce, How to Produce, For Whom to Produce? and have students add Land, Labor, and Capital. 
Writing 15 minutes: Write a paragraph describing your business and why people would want to buy this product. 
Sharing 20 minutes: Have students meet five other entrepreneurs and try to sell them their ideas. Have students collect three companies that rank: Best, Most Creative, and least liked.
Writing and sharing 20 minutes: Students write why they ranked those three companies they chose to focus on the way they did.
Reflection 10 minutes: Write three things that could improve your business and make it more of a reality.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives 

Friday, January 6, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT pitch their business in an affective manner.
Warm Up 15 minute: Write a paragraph describing the what your business is and why someone would want to buy your good or service.
Meet and Greet 20 minutes: Meet at least five different entrepreneur and sell them on your business idea.
Closing 5 minutes: Write a paragraph on two of your favorite business ideas you heard.

Tuesday, January 5, 2012

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance.
Objectives: SWBAT describe the importance of making economic choices and how it goes hand in hand with business.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Write a paragraph on the importance of being responsible.
Inquiry 15 minutes: Please describe to the best of your ability what is Economics and the phrase there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Lecture 15 minutes: Scarcity and questions for production.
Inquiry 15 minutes: What is an Entrepreneur?
Comic Life 30 minutes: What to Produce? How to Produce? and for Whom to Produce?
Comic Life 20 minutes: Land, Labor, Capital
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday, January 3, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, Pledge of Allegiance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify the importance of business and how it applies to everyday life.
Introductory Paragraph 15 minutes: Write a Paragraph describing yourself

• Name
• Hobbies
• what you would like to be doing in four years (specific) 

Introduction 10 minutes: Meet three people and read introductory paragraphs to them and exchange emails.

Warm Up 15 minutes: Using prior knowledge, what is business?
Reading 20 minutes: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Business

• Read five definitions of Business and write them down in your notes.

Activity 25 minutes: List 10 goals you have for this semester and write three sentences for each describing how you will achieve your goals.

Groups 20 minutes: Groups of five Read goals to one another and provide feedback.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.