Friday, October 13, 2017

Archdale-Trinity Middle School Lesson Plan
Date: 10-16-2017

Teacher:	Witkowski
Lesson/Unit Topic:	The Entrepreneurial Process- Discovery Phase
Standards:	NCCTE.BU20.03.02 Understand entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process

“I Can…” Statement
I can explain a market trend.

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

In the Discovery phase of the Entrepreneurial process
you look at market trends.

A market trend is a fact that shows if the market for your item
is increasing, decreasing, staying the same or changing.

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

1. Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com

2. Open 3.02 Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Process
3. Get a pen or pencil

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students

(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Lesson:

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@ Review next Famous Entrepreneur presentations

@ Miss W will review what a market trend is

A market trend is a fact that shows if the market is increasing, decreasing, staying the same or changing in some way.

Market Trends

Independent Exercise:

@ Students will complete a market trend analysis

@ Students will complete the following Market Trend exercises:

@ In pairs, read the link below titled "Sneaker Wars" by the Washington Post
and list different facts/trends about sneakers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/03/17/how-sneaker-kings-are-fighting-to-win-the-war-for-americas-feet/

@ Using "The Global Footwar Market" by Packaged Facts answer the following questions: http://wulibraries.typepad.com/files/footwear.pdf

@ Where are most U.S. footwear sold?
@ Which company sold the most shoes?
@ Which companies went down in sales?
@ Is it a good time to go into the NON-sneaker business? Why or Why not?
@ Is it a good time to go into the sneaker business? Why or Why not?

Start studying food truck market trends "Food Trucks Motor into Mainstream" by Intuit at http://www.margatenews.net/Files/Intuit%20Survey.pdf

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Why learn about food trucks?