Students will have access to a series of videos of real business created by youth/business kids. Students will watch and learn tips on how to start their own business.
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Working either alone or in pairs students create a comic strip that identifies choices that need to be considered when making an ethical decision.
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Students learn about online privacy issues, primarily those relating to giving out personal information on social networking websites such as Facebook. Students will learn to assess the various types of information they provide in Facebook profiles, along with the different levels of access. They will examine the potential risks and consequences of posting personal information on the Internet, and become more aware of how to protect their privacy.
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This resource provides information about the importance of developing effective relationships in the workplace. Interpersonal skills and personal qualities are reviewed.
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Students will create a PowerPoint presentation on an animal of their choice and present it to the class.
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Students gain an understanding about non-profit organizations and the role they play in our economy. Students then learn about a relatively new type of fundraising effort, known as CowParade©, for non- profit organizations that has been successful in a number of cities around the world. Students adapt CowParade for their own community.
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Students will learn about competition in the market place. They will understand that competition takes place when there are many buyers and sellers of similar products. They will discuss how competition among sellers results in lower costs and prices, higher product quality, and better customer service.
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Students will detect obvious and not-so-obvious examples of advertisements in their everyday lives. Recognize the role that logos, imaginary characters, slogans and jingles play in developing brand awareness.
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The Industrial Age has also been called the Age of Edison. Edison patented more than 1000 inventions and gave rise to three industries: electric utilities, phonograph and record companies, and the film industry. This lesson will help students see the relationship between inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs, and industries. Students will also identify entrepreneurial characteristics.
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Role playing as fashion merchants or purchasing agents, students will analyze market scenarios to determine their effect on the demand and price for the identified product. Students will determine the relationship beween a change in demand and a change in price.
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Students learn how to make basic charts, change the chart type, change labels, and switch columns, rows and legends.
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This online lesson covers creating a basic database. Students will be able to repeat simulation until they are comfortable with the activities.
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Students develop an awareness of marketing tactics aimed at teens through the creation of their own mock advertising campaigns. Students will demonstrate an awareness of the influential nature of ads. Students will identify specific advertising tactics geared to teenagers. Students will explain how they are influenced by commercial messages.
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It's a job getting a job and Biz Kids is here to help. Learn tips and tricks for writing a great resume, dressing for success, and nailing the interview. Get the inside scoop on what employers look for from a young entrepreneur who manages 200 employees.
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Students will learn importance of assessing career needs, evaluating skills and personality, considering financial needs, and developing job skills as you begin to explore different careers.
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Students will understand the importance of skills in school and in the workplace.
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Students will identify the eight employability skills.
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Self-Assessment: What do interests, attitudes, and values say about who you are as a person?
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Students will read each statement and select the statements that are true about themselves. The responses will be used to generate a list of careers in the student's top two or three career clusters.
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Students will build bridges and cantilevers with straws to experience many of the basic physics and engineering concepts inherent in structures.
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