Miss Witkowski's Computer Science Discoveries Class: Monday, October 12th- 8th Grade- Start on Module 1 The Entrepreneur in You

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Monday, October 12th- 8th Grade- Start on Module 1 The Entrepreneur in You

	Archdale-Trinity Middle School Lesson Plan
Date: 10-12-2015

Teacher:	Witkowski
Lesson/Unit Topic:	Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur- Personal Characteristics and Skills
Standards:	NCCTE.BU20.03.01 Recall personal characteristics and skills needed for a successful entrepreneur

“I Can…” Statement
I can recall personal characteristics and skills needed for a successful entrepreneur. Test next Thursday on Nonprofits and Entrepreneur characteristics and skills.	.

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

An entrepreneur is inquisitive- they are curious about how things work.

Thomas Edison experimenting in his laboratory. He invented the electric light bulb.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison,_experimenting_in_his_laboratory.png

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

1. Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com

2. Go to your lunch number and open 1.03 Bellringer Profit versus Nonprofit and

fill in the blanks for the Day 4 question. Change the words to red.

2. Go to Computer- Student Doc- Witkowski folder- Exploring Business Folder-

Entrepreneur Folder- then open 3.01 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students

(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Lesson:

@ Miss W will help students get ready for the Venture- Entrepreneurship Unit

*Pre-survey (Monday)

* Module 1 The Entrepreneur in You (Monday)

* Module 2 Planning and Building a Business (Food Truck) (Tuesday)

* Module 3 Your Business Snapshot (Tuesday)

* Post-survey (Tuesday)

@ Miss W will review the personal characteristics and skills of a successful entrepreneur

Independent Exercise:

@ Go to http://www.everfi.com/login/

@ Take your time and read carefully

@ Take your time when answering the survey, the program is going to try to match your answers with an entrepreneur. It will be a more interesting match if you answer the questions carefully.

@ You will be receiving a grade, which will be the average of the 3 module grades.

@ You are not able to go back and look for the answers so you must read and listen to the videos

@ When you are finished with the presurvey and Module 1 you may read, do homework, draw but you are not on the computer

If time:
@ Start or continue on the famous entrepreneur assignment

If absent:

@ Go to http://www.everfi.com/register

@ Use your real name it will be printed on the certificate

@ Write down your username and password

@ Check the box next to I agree to the terms of service

@ Students will complete the Personal Characteristics and Skills worksheet.

@ Students will check which characteristics and skills they currently possess.

@ Go to http://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/rankings/franchise500-115608/2015,-1.html