Thursday, March 29, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT research a current event, identify different types of inflation, and present a podcast.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Why do nations trade?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Exports, Imports and Business Cycle. Recordings for different types of inflation.
Research current events 20 minutes: Radio Broadcast
Podcast Presentations 20 minutes: Students will present there podcasts.
Closing question on trade 10 minutes: Do you think that trade is a good thing for the United States, why or why not?
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Key terms.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT research a current event, identify different types of inflation, and present a podcast.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Why do nations trade?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Exports, Imports and Business Cycle. Recordings for different types of inflation.
Research current events 20 minutes: Radio Broadcast
Podcast Presentations 20 minutes: Students will present there podcasts.
Closing question on trade 10 minutes: Do you think that trade is a good thing for the United States, why or why not?
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Key terms.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT create a podcast about unemployment, and inflation.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Poster on Virtue

1. Title
2. Picture
3. Definition
4. Significance

Notes 20 minutes: Business Cycle, inflation, deflation, consumer price index, hyperinflation, stagflation, demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, wage-price spiral.
Activity 20 minutes: Create a Consumer Price Basket with 10 items that our used daily.
Activity 10 minutes: 5 Different Years of 100 dollars
http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1980&year2=2012 
Podcast 15 minutes: Students will finish Podcasts
Sharing 15 minutes: Students will share podcasts on overhead.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Monday, March 25, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT create a podcast about unemployment, and inflation.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Poster on Virtue

1. Title
2. Picture
3. Definition
4. Significance

Notes 20 minutes: Business Cycle, inflation, deflation, consumer price index, hyperinflation, stagflation, demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, wage-price spiral.
Activity 20 minutes: Create a Consumer Price Basket with 10 items that our used daily.
Activity 10 minutes: 5 Different Years of 100 dollars
http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1980&year2=2012 
Podcast 15 minutes: Students will finish Podcasts
Sharing 15 minutes: Students will share podcasts on overhead.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Thursday, March 21, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: SWBAT identify examples of unemployment, write a story that about unemployment, create a garageband podcast, and research a current event.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Students will research on the web for  examples of different types of unemployment.
Activity 20 minutes: Google Document with partner script.
Recording 20 minutes: Record on Garage Band
iMovie 20 minutes: Find Pictures for story.
Current Event 20 minutes: Research Current Events.
Closing 5 minutes

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: SWBAT identify examples of unemployment, write a story that about unemployment, create a garageband podcast, and research a current event.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Students will research on the web for  examples of different types of unemployment.
Activity 20 minutes: Google Document with partner script.
Recording 20 minutes: Record on Garage Band
iMovie 20 minutes: Find Pictures for story.
Current Event 20 minutes: Research Current Events.
Closing 5 minutes

Monday, March 19, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: Students will be able to identify characteristic of virtue, identify types of unemployment, and create a resume.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Students will identify 4 Characteristics of Virtue
Comic Life 20 minutes: 4 Characteristics of Virtue Picture, Significance, Description
Notes 20 minutes: Unemployment
Photo Booth Charades 20 minutes: Types of Unemployment
Question 10 minutes: What is the purpose of a resume?
List 10 minutes: 10 qualities you would like to reveal to your employer.
Pages Resume Template 20 minutes
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.
  

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe the production possibilities curve, research a current event, define functions of money, and create a comic life poster.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Acrostic Poem Virtue with Picture and the Importance of being virtuous.
Sharing 5 minutes: Students share with someone not next to them.
Research 20 minutes: Current Event

• Title
• Link
• Summary
• How it relates to Business

Discussion 15 minutes: Medium of Exchange, store of value, measure of value p. 387

Reading 20 minutes: p. 182-87 

Activity 20 minutes: Grapes, Oranges, Bananas, Melons

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe the evolution, functions, and characteristics of money.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What is money?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Notes, barter economy, commodity money, fiat money.
Activity 20 minutes: What are characteristics of money? Using these characteristics think of three other things that might be able to be used as money.

• portable
• durable
• divisible
• limited supply

Discussion 10 minutes: Medium of Exchange, measure of value, store of value.

Comic Life 25 minutes: 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Monday, March 11, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT describe the evolution, functions, and characteristics of money.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What is money?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Notes, barter economy, commodity money, fiat money.
Activity 20 minutes: What are characteristics of money? Using these characteristics think of three other things that might be able to be used as money.

• portable
• durable
• divisible
• limited supply

Discussion 10 minutes: Medium of Exchange, measure of value, store of value.

Comic Life 25 minutes: 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Friday, March 9, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify supply and demand curve, and present a current event.
Warm Up 10 minutes: What is your favorite soda, bottled water, perfume/deodorant, aspirin.
Current Events 10 minutes: Students will share current events.
Review 10 minutes: Review Supply and demand curve.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives, SWBAT identify supply and demand curve, and present a current event.
Warm Up 10 minutes: What is your favorite soda, bottled water, perfume/deodorant, aspirin.
Review Demand 10 minutes: Review Demand
Lecture 1 minutes: Supply
Graph 10 minutes: Graph Supply
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Thursday, March 8, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT create demand schedules and curves for their respective businesses.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What does it mean to seek first to understand, then seek to be understood?
Poster 25 minutes: Correct Ways to listen.
Demand Charts 10: What does your demand chart tell you about the law of demand 
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Supply
Lecture 15 minutes: Supply
Activity 15 minutes: Production Possibilities Curve.
Current Events 20 minutes: Students will research current events.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT create demand schedules and curves for their respective businesses.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What does it mean to seek first to understand, then seek to be understood?
Poster 25 minutes: Correct Ways to listen.
Lecture 15 minutes: Review Demand
Demand Curves 20 minutes: Students will create their own demand curves.
Question 5 minutes: What does this say about people and prices?
Current Events 20 minutes: Student will research current events.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify American Free Enterprise, Forms of Business Organization and Business Growth and Expansion.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe three things you can do become more virtuous.
Lecture 20 minutes: American Free Enterprise
Activity 15 minutes: Habitual, impulsive, and rational

• Three examples for each.

Question 10 minutes: What is Demand?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Microeconomics, market economy, demand schedule, demand curve, law of demand, marginal utility, diminishing marginal utility.
Activity 20 minutes: Demand Curve
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Main ideas.

Monday, March 5, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda
Objectives: SWBAT identify American Free Enterprise, Forms of Business Organization and Business Growth and Expansion.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Describe three things you can do become more virtuous.
Lecture 20 minutes: American Free Enterprise
Activity 15 minutes: Habitual, impulsive, and rational

• Three examples for each.

Question 10 minutes: What is Demand?
Vocabulary 20 minutes: Microeconomics, market economy, demand schedule, demand curve, law of demand, marginal utility, diminishing marginal utility.
Activity 20 minutes: Demand Curve
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Main ideas.

Friday, March 2, 2012, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: SWBAT explain their current event and how it relates to business, students will present posters,  and garageband commercials.
Warm Up 10 minutes: My biggest academic goal is___________ and I will achieve my goal by ____________.
Sharing 15 minutes:  Current Events
Gallery Walk 20 minutes: 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Main Ideas.