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Students will discover the benefits of
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Primary Learning Outcomes
What kind of business would I like to own? What are the
benefits of owning your own business?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 5
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
6
Topic: Skills to
understand and use career information.
Standard:
Describe work of family members, school personnel, and
community workers. Identify occupations according to data, people, and things.
Identify work activities of interest to the student. Describe the relationship
of beliefs, attitudes, interests, and abilities to occupations. Describe jobs
that are present in the local community. Identify the working conditions of
occupations (e.g., , inside/outside, hazardous). Describe ways in which
self-employment differs from working for others. Describe how parents,
relatives, adult friends, and neighbors can provide career information.
7
Topic: Awareness
of the importance of personal responsibility and good work habits.
Standard: Describe the importance of
personal qualities (e.g., , dependability, promptness, getting along with
others) to getting and keeping jobs. Demonstrate positive ways of performing
work activities. Describe the importance of cooperation among workers to
accomplish a task. Demonstrate the ability to work with people who are different
from oneself (e.g., , race, age, gender).
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 15 min.
On the first day, have students think about a kind of business
they might like to own (e.g., pet shop, flower shop, trucking company, toy
store). Have them use the telephone directory or city directory for ideas. Ask
them to describe their business and what they would like to sell or supply. Have
students design an advertisement for their business.
Step: 2 Duration: 30 min.
On the second day, have students prepare questions that they
would like to ask a business owner about what it is like to work for yourself.
Review the questions with the class. Have the guest speaker talk to the class
about the risks and rewards in his or her business and answer students’
questions.
Materials and Equipment
Entrepreneur guest speaker, Telephone directory or city
directory listing businesses
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
30 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Ask students to write a sample business plan for a business
that they would like to own.
Remediation
Have students list the pros and cons of self-employment.
Accommodation
Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can
be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in
classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC
standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of
this lesson plan.
