This lesson allows students to develop an understanding of basic entrepreneurship, understand skills needed to be an entrepreneur in business and life, and understand the basic goal setting and team work skills.
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This is a financial literacy game of life activity. This interactive game will show students the importance of creating and maintaining a budget.
Material Type: Game
The students will work with a partner to participate in a "Track Star" game to illustrate positive and negative spending behaviors.
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In this lesson, students will identify sources of income and expenses. They will develop a budget in order to be able to explain the importance of personal financial decisions and how it can affect everyday life.
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Students will choose a college based on their career goals and aspirations. In this lesson, students will select a career field, choose a field of study (major), and research college cost. Students will learn how to chart, graph, analyze and present the total cost of college in a spreadsheet.
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Students will be able to identify the parts and format of a friendly letter. Students will write a friendly letter using the appropriate format and proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. Students will also be able to identify the parts of an e-mail message and write and send e-mail messages. Students will communicate with an e-pal according to a specified timeline. (Confirm permission with your district and county officials before implementing this lesson.)
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The students will brainstorn the do's and don't's of the interviewing process and potential questions the employer may ask. The students will take turns playing the role of the employer and potential job candidate and write a reflection of their experience in each role.
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This interactive applet may be used by students to assist them with the process of letter writing. The generator requires students to fill in the specific components of a letter before it generates a correctly formatted letter. The generator may be used as a letter writing aid or in conjunction with other activities wherein students are tasked with writing a letter. Click the arrow to proceed throught letter.
Material Type: Interactive
Students break into small groups and create a marketing plan for a product or service of their choice. They determine the four P's: the product, price, promotion and place, then present their findings to the class.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a financial literacy game of life activity. This interactive game will show students the importance of creating and maintaining a budget.
Material Type: Game
This course is designed to teach individuals to perform marketing and management functions and tasks associated with owning and operating a small business. Students will develop a business plan, learn appropriate customer service and human relation skills and demonstrate positive work habits.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan
Students worked in small groups to create a stop motion animation video which advertises a local business. Students worked collaboratively with a business owner to create an advertisement which positively represents the business. Completed projects were shown on each business’ website.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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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This resource is a 4 day lesson where students learn the Elements of Design and begin with the element of line.
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This is a tool teachers can use to design high quality PBL projects, including how to ensure they have a strong connection to curricular standards and success skills, they are authentic per things students care about, they provide students with choice and voice during the project, assessments and scaffolding are intentional and personalized for each student, time is dedicated for student reflection and revision, and the project has a public audience.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Module, Reference Material
This is a high school level, school-wide, interdisciplinary PBL project that allows students to increase their depth of knowledge of academic and 21st Century Skills by designing, building, and refining a product or service that will help people better prepare for, respond to, or recover from natural disasters. It was done at Tri-County Early College in 2018.
Material Type: Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The Racing Project is high school level, school-wide, cross-curricular PBL project done at Tri-County Early College HS and was centered around the question: How can we innovate vehicle design solutions to win a race? With that question in mind, there were four different buckets containing different ideas for car designs: gravity games, combustion, electric, and human powered vehicles. Within each of these buckets the PBL groups (with help from an outside mentor) were to design a car to win a race to the best of their abilities using the power source bucket they were in.
Material Type: Reference Material
Students will be able to create a complete resume representing their skills, experience, and educational background that will make them employable in todayŐs workforce. Students will create a resume using a Microsoft Word resume template.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan
This Vocabulary Crossword will help student practice the vocabulary terms for MaWD 1.01 Multi Use Design Elements Vocabulary. Download the html file and incorporate it in your lesson. The list of words and descriptions are COLOR MODES MONITORS: Colors are created by mixing varying degrees of red, green and blue light. Referred to as RGB (red, green, blue) LINES: Used to organize information, simulate movement, lead the eyes and enhance a design. COLOR MATCHING: The process of matching the colors produced on the computer screen to the colors that can be printed on paper using ink to ensure the printed publication looks as much like the on-screen publication as possible. COLOR SATURATION: The amount of the hue used; a color’s intensity. ANALOGOUS COLOR SCHEME: Any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel. COLOR HUE: A color CALMING COLORS: The use of cool colors (blue, green and violet) COLOR MODES PRINTERS: In the four-color printing process, color is created by layering cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. Referred to as (CMYK )(cyan, magenta, yellow and black) TEXTURE: Used to convey a “visual” sense of feel. COLOR TINT: A hure plus white. NEGATIVE SPACE: The “white space”; the distance between objects; gives a design breathing room. SHAPES: The 2-deminsional space; used to enhance a publication. ORGANIC: The natural or man-made objects such as leaves, trees, and cars. NEUTRAL COLORS: The use of beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, and white. COLOR HARMONY: A visually pleasing arrangement of colors. COLOR: Can be used to evoke emotion. POSITIVE SPACE: The length, width, and depth of objects COMPLEMENTARY COLOR: Any 2 colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. MASS: The size or amount of space taken up by an element. EXCITING COLORS: The use of warm colors (red, orange and yellow). MONOCHROMATIC SCHEME: Thuses variations in lightness and saturation of a single color. COLOR THEMES: Can be used to set a tone or mood for the publication. COLOR SHADE: A hue plus black. COLOR THEORY: It is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual effects of a specific color combination. There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the color wheel: primary color, secondary color and tertiary color. GEOMETRIC: Square, Triangle, and Circle. COLOR PALETTE: A chart used to choose colors from. COLOR VALUE: The brightness of a color. FORM: The 3-dimensional space added to objects by the addition of shadows, tone, or color transitions.
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This Vocabulary Crossword will help student practice the vocabulary terms for MaWD 1.01 Multi Use Design Principles Vocabulary. Download the html file and incorporate it in your lesson. The list of words and descriptions are SYMMETRICAL: How the elements of the design are centered or evenly divided horizontally and vertically on a page. BALANCE: Is determined by how elements are arranged. CONTRAST: The emphasizing the difference between two elements. SCALE AND PROPORTION: The relationships between the sizes of various elements. UNITY AND HARMONY: All of the design elements are consistent with each other in shape, style and color and consistent with the overall message. DOMINANCE AND EMPHASIS: The first element the eye sees; the focal point. ASYMMETRICAL: The off-center alignment created with an odd or mismatched number of elements. RADIAL: Elements radiate or swirl out from a center point.
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