April 18 Career Management

Learning Goal: 4.02 Small Business and Entrepreneurs

Bellringer:
Pull up PowerPoint 4.02

Guided Lesson:
Miss W will give a brief explanation of entrepreneurship
Miss W will discuss the expectations for the entrepreneur unit

Independent Lesson:

Becoming an entrepreneur, Read pages 126 to 131. On page 131, answer questions 1-4.

Take “Am I an Entrepreneur?” Survey
Results?
Do you agree? WHY?

Play the Disney’s Hotshot Entrepreneur Game: http://disney.go.com/hotshot/hsb2/index.html
Choose one of the following businesses to own: pet spa, pro landscaping, custom skate shop, comic store. Make decisions about financing, reacting to breaking news and marketing.
What was the hardest thing about the game?
How does it act like a real life situation?
How much did you earn in 2 weeks?

Complete Franchise Hunt worksheet.http://www.entrepreneur.com
Which franchise would you like to own and work at? Why?

Play the PBS Build a Business game http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/engage/business.html
“A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value.
Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profits. And unlike the majority of non-profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change.”
List 2 pieces of advice given during the game.

Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov/
Read the article at the SBA “Is Entrepreneurship for you?” http://www.sba.gov/sba-direct/article/2771#
Name one trait?
List one piece of advice.
In the right column are local offices. What NC cities have SBA offices?

Answer Multiple Choice Questions
ANSWERS are in yellow in the 4.02 PowerPoint and in on pages 126-131.
RESEARCH AN ENTREPRENEUR- from this list http://cecteachers.dpsk12.org/stories/storyReader$75 Write a paragraph about what they did and which entrepreneurial characteristics they have.

Group Activity (this will be for the day before our CFA and we do not meet in the lab) You will get with the group from your Disney game (pet spa, pro landscaping, custom skate shop, comic store) and brainstorm how you could have made your business more successful. You will be giving an oral presentation about your ideas.