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LESSON IDEAS:
Play monopoly in accounting (and journalize all transaction, then complete financial statements) Create a country as part of study of economics.... Sales presentations - make a new product and then do a formal sales presentation for that item. Business etiquette presentations and selling products in another country. Blogging, animoto presentations

Intro the 4Ps....define them and have them give examples. Then break up into small groups. Have them create a new product and apply the 4ps....I have them make a model out of playdo (or model magic), give it a name, create a description of it, create an ad and discuss where will be sold and for how much. They then share. Usually two periods is sufficient but it can be done in less. For international business, I do have an etiquette activity that uses the website executiveplanet.com.

I tend to do notes/lecture in one period per week whenever possible; I always make the slides available to the students if they wish to get them ahead of time so they can just enhance them while class moves along. Then, we do different projects/activities related to the unit. Some are one day and some are multi day. I have found marketing is best done in teams and hands on. Check out the DECA Virgina site for some other ideas. @http://www.lions.odu.edu/org/deca/advisors/lessons.html For research, I always have my class make a survey and graph it based upon the class. Then I have them create a survey to administer outside of class to a larger sample. They then analyze the results in class. The M&M activity works here too.

Sure....after we discuss all the basic forms of economics and resources.....I break the class into groups. The groups draw their terrain, climate, four natural resources and are given a basic guide. From here, they have to create a country and find trading partners to meet their needs. They turn this into a children's book about their country which we read in class at the end of the week. I usually allow 3 or 4 days for creating and writing. We read all the books in one day. They have to determine: form of government, services provided, industries, currency, trading partners, taxes etc. Since no one ends up with all they need, they have to find partners to get supplies and make deals. They also create a flag, a map, illustrations of housing etc. It is usually interesting and I have never had it turn out the same.

Our school systems restricts many sites as well, but we can still search on google, bing, and more. Try looking at Alan November's website, www.novemberlearning.com and check out the Internet Literacy Quiz under the 'Resources' tab- he has lots of information there. I have students take the quiz in pencil first, then I take them step-by-step through the answers. We are in a computer lab, and I give them a link to delicious bookmarks I set up for the activity. This way they do not have to type every address in by hand. I expect them to fill in all of the correct answers as we review, and I then grade them for correctness (since every student has the opportunity to fill in the correct answer with my guidance). November has a lot of useful resources on his site. Good luck! I hope your school board sees the light and loosens up the controls. When they are finished the quiz, I group them to explore the bogus websites November refers to. They have to answer a couple of questions like who is responsible for the content, who owns the registration for the site, when the site was last updated, under what authority does the author write, etc. I mean, who knew about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus??

Have you ever heard of the Junior Achievement Company Program? I am currently doing it with my Entrepreneurship class. The resources are excellent and the students actually create and run their own venture (The organizational structure is great - President, VP Finance, VP HR, VP IT etc.) and have the opportunity to make money. It is a great form of project based learning. Here is the link to the worldwide Junior Achievement site: http://www.ja.org / This is now my second time doing this program so let me know if you have any questions. Here is a video that might help spark discussion: Entrepreneurs can change the world Here is an online self evaluation that students can do to see if they have the characteristics found in most entrepreneurs: @http://www.potentielentrepreneur.ca/client/instructionsen.asp Lastly, there are a lot of great profiles of successful young entrepreneurs on this site that may be useful for a case study etc. (Inc.com): http://www.inc.com/30under30/2010/profiles.html#self