8G Business

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About Business

In Exploring Business Activities, 8th graders look closely at the different roles and functions necessary to operate a business, and to get scholars thinking about their future places in the business world, both as producers and as consumers.

We begin with an overview of Entrepreneurship content, both as refresher for any students who may have taken my 7th grade class, and as an introduction to students new to the CTE Business course track.

We employ a mix of class presentations, team projects and business simulations to help students practice what they've learned.

Business owners stand to win or lose opportunities depending on how successfully they've mastered the functions we cover in our course. We occasionally make use of Shark Tank and Billion Dollar Buyer clips to emphasize this point.


January 21-23 END OF SEMESTER

Final Test Results: Average score 68, 74% proficient. (Two students will need to take the test Thurs.)

Final Test: B Day will take the test Tuesday (1/21).

Last Day to Complete Lemonade 'Receipts': Thurs 1/23.

Be sure to share your team slides: No receipts, no slides, no prize


The "Price/Quality Control" (or Recipe) page from the Lemonade Stand game on Cool Math is shown.

January 13-17

Final Test: A Day will take the end-of-course final Friday (1/17). B Day will take the test the following Tuesday (1/21).

Wed (1/15) Reminder: To be eligible for prizes you must (a) do the worksheet and (b) fill out the paper 'receipts' for your 14-day Lemonade Stand runs. Don't be That Team which has a winning score but loses out.

Also: We'll start posting class leader boards today.

Lemonade Stand Competition! With a partner, you will learn the relationship between price and product (quality) using that most intellectual of online resources, Cool Math. You will complete a slideshow using this template from Google Drive to be eligible for the prizes (Chick-Fil-A gift card or equivalent if chicken's not your thing.) Winner will be team that has the most "money" (amount in lower left corner) at the end of 14 game days. You must (a) test different recipes and show your results, then (b) test different prices for your recipe (the product-price match), and then (c) document your performances in a Google Slideshow. Winners will present their slides to the class next week.

Mon (1/13) and Tues (1/14): Demonstration, Test Recipes

Wed (1/15) and Thurs (1/16) Test Prices, Start Recording Attempts

End of Course Practice Test. Two scholars have not taken the practice test in Schoolnet. Those students will do so Tuesday (1/14).

A chart showing the "Color Code" used by students when making test corrections. The color yellow signifies reading comprehension errors (usually rushed reading of questions, possible choices if a multiple choice test). Orange signifies instances where the student recognizes their mistake, makes the proper connection between the question and the correct response, and strengthens their connection with the material. Red signifies a learning (or teaching) gap, a need to cover or reloop the material in a non-testing situation.

January 6-10

End of Course Practice Test. Mon (1/6) and Tuesday (1/7) we'll log into Schoolnet and take the practice test. When done, write the question #'s for ones you answered incorrectly, and do "color code" corrections.

Two Areas to Review. On Thurs (1/9) and Fri (1/10) we'll review Management (Planning/Staffing, Organizing, Controlling, Leading) and Information Technology functions (Troubleshooting, Programming, Designing, Analyzing, Networking, Managing). 10 and 15 out of 50 questions, respectively, cover these two areas. That's *half* the test.