How many employees do I need? What are my profits? How do I do my taxes? Students learn the answers to these basic questions that each small business owner needs to know as they create businesses and sell products to the other students.
- Topics by Week
- Sample Pacing Guide
- Lessons and Reviews
- Math Skills Worksheets
- Projects
- Quizzes
- Unit Tests
Topics by Week
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Unit 1 Choose a Company |
This lesson will focus on introducing the course material and getting started. You will teach students how to take personality surveys and fill out job applications. |
Week 2 Week 3 |
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Unit 2 Create and Sell Product |
This lesson teaches students how to calculate and estimate weekly payments for specific products their companies are selling. These products are sold to other students and will be billed for and paid weekly by the students. |
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Unit 3 Advertise |
This lesson teaches students how to calculate area, balance spatial design, and consider the effects of color on their design. Students will calculate the material and costs of a billboard by calculating areas of different parts of their billboard. |
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Unit 4 Where is Tax Money Spent |
Students will learn the importance the government places on taxes, learn about very large numbers, and will learn where tax money is spent. |
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Unit 5 Federal Taxes |
Students will learn about reading very large numbers. They will understand progressive and flat taxes and will calculate taxes from the tax brackets. |
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Unit 6 Tax Returns |
Students will complete a simple personal tax return form for Federal Taxes using form 1040EZ. |
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Unit 7 Calculating Staffing Requirements |
This lesson teaches how to calculate costs and staffing requirements in a company. |
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Unit 8 Calculating Selling Price |
This lesson expands the concepts of unit sales and percents by teaching students how to create a pricing model for a popcorn company. |
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Unit 9 Product Design and Sales |
This lesson expands the concepts of unit sales and percents by teaching students how to design and sell a Marshmallow Shooter. |
Week 11 Week 12 |
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Unit 10 Travel Agent – Design a Trip |
This lesson teaches students how to plan for a road trip. they will calculate travel costs, hotel costs, and time zones. |
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Unit 11 Restaurant Owner – Menu Design |
Students will use fractions, unit conversion, markup, and unit sales as they create a menu and associated recipes for a restaurant. They will calculate cost of cooking, sales prices, and basic costs of running a Restaurant. |
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Unit 12 Shipping |
This lesson will teach students the basics of calculating shipping costs. |
Week 15 | Unit 13 Experimental Probability |
This unit teaches students about probability, both calculated and experimental. | |
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Unit 14 Projecting Profits |
This unit teaches how to graph company profits, and create equations for projecting profits based on future sales. |
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Unit 15 Business Finance Final Review |
During this lesson, you will review some of the most fundamental topics that are needed to survive in life. These items will be on the final exam. |
Sample Pacing Guide
Unit 1: Introduction – Getting a Job
Lessons and Reviews
1.1 Introduction to Course
1.1 Introduction to Course- Review
Math Skills Worksheets
Pre-Employment Skills Assessment
Projects
1.1- Get a Job1.2- Go2.1- Get Your Bills
Quizzes
2.1a Calculating Rent
Unit Tests
Unit 2 Test
Final 2015