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8th grade business resources for Microsoft Word
Dream Vacation Math and Finance Project - Can Be Used For Distance Learning!
This project provides the opportunity for students to apply the Common Core practice of mathematical modeling to plan their own dream vacations, including choosing transportation, accommodations, food, and activities. It helps them learn to develop a budget, research various trip alternatives, and present the information to their classmates. It's amazing how quickly students realize that a limo to the airport, first class airplane ticket, 4-star hotel, and upscale restaurants may not quite be as
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6th - 12th
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The Founder Movie Questions w/ Answers- Franchising/Entrepreneurship
The Founder Movie Questions w/ Answers- Franchising/EntrepreneurshipThe Founder movie released in 2016 is an amazing movie on franchising that tells the story of how Ray Kroc maneuvered himself into the position of taking the McDonald's restaurant franchise from the McDonald's brothers. The summary is as follows: The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 19
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fun Persuasive Writing Project - Food Product Sales Pitch Presentation
This is a fun persuasive writing project aimed at middle school students. It involves several parts. First, students must develop an original food product. Then, students will write a persuasive letter convincing a food company to produce their product (a template is provided). Next, students will design a 2-D or 3-D model of their food product packaging. Lastly, students will create a two-minute oral sales pitch aimed at pitching their product to a food manufacturing company. Students use
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5th - 10th
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Writing Prompt Pack, Argumentative Essay on Paying Students for Good Grades
With this low-prep, argumentative essay writing prompt pack, you will have everything you need to assign an argumentative essay to your middle or high school students. With the high-interest topic - Should students get paid for grades? - your teens will be excited to read the nonfiction textual-based stimuli included and compose an essay to state their point of view!Student Experience: Students will use the graphic organizer to brainstorm and organize their thoughts. Next, they will read the
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7th - 11th
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Computer Applications Activities Bundle
This Computer Applications Course Bundle includes activities for the following topics:Ice Breaker Activity30 Daily Bell Ringers Digital Footprint Slideshow & ActivityParts of a Computer Slideshow, Guided Notes & ActivityEmail Communication Slideshow & ActivityInternet Safety Scavenger HuntIntro to KeyboardingGoogle Docs Formatting ActivitiesGoogle Sheets ActivitiesGoogle Slides ActivitiesGoogle Drawings ActivitiesGoogle Sites ActivityFinal ProjectA total of 36 resources are included
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6th - 12th
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MARKETING- Marketing Mix & the 4P's Fast Food Assignment
Who doesn't love fast food? In this marketing assignments, students will explore the marketing mix and focus on the 4 P's of marketing, such as product, price, place, and promotion. Students will brainstorm a new fast food menu item for a fast food restaurant listed on the assignment. They will work through the worksheet, collecting data referring to each of the 4 P's. Students will also create possible advertisements or promotions. With all their information, students will prepare a pitch
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Business Shark Tank Project and Supplemental Activities/Worksheets
This project includes step by step, day by day, teacher instructions, supplemental activity worksheets, including a Shark Tank episode guide, a Shark Tank product analysis activity, a brainstorm worksheet for product development, and a project information sheet including directions and check list requirements for the business plan, shark tank pitch, and advertisement. I use this project with my high school economics students during the business unit. It is my absolute favorite project because
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8th - 12th
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The Intern Movie Questions w/ Answers- Career Education/Employment
The Intern Movie Questions w/ Answers- Career Education/EmploymentThe Intern movie released in 2015 is an amazing movie on different generations in the workplace/workplace diversity. The summary is as follows: Starting a new job can be a difficult challenge, especially if you are already retired. Looking to get back into the game, 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) seizes the opportunity to become a senior intern at an online fashion site. Ben soon becomes popular with his younge
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Marketing Activity: Failed Products Research Activity w/Answer Key
Students research 3 failed products. They look into why they failed and potential solutions that may have overcome these problems.
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8th - 12th
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Business Ethics- 5 Steps to Ethical Decision Making Scenarios Activity
Business Ethics- 5 Steps to Ethical Decision Making Scenarios ActivityThis document contains 4 different ethics scenarios in which students have to use the 5 steps of an ethical decision making process to respond to. They then need to create their own scenario and then respond using the 5 steps. The steps of the process are:1) Identify the dilemma.2) Discover the alternative actions. 3) Decide who might be affected. 4) List the probable effects of the alternatives. 5) Select the best alternative
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission
Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission This activity worksheet is an excellent, quick/simple tool to use to teach students how to calculate hourly wage, overtime pay, salary pay, and commission. The activity is broken into 4 sections- one for each form of payment. Each form of payment includes a detailed explanation, formula, example, and problems for students to try. This is a no prep activity for when you just want to briefly introduce the items and not spen
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Business Ethics- Code of Ethics Assignment
Business Ethics- Code of Ethics AssignmentThis download is an assignment students will complete using the Internet. The assignment deals with business ethics and involves businesses' code of ethics. A code of ethics is a document that outlines the principles of conduct to be used in making decisions within an organization. The document contains 19 URL addresses/links to different companies code of ethics documents. Students will choose the company they are interested in, slowly type in the link
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Economics Personal Finance Minimum Wage Assignment - Poor Man's Budget
This assignment is called the Poor Man's Budget. This assignment forces students to work 40 hours a week at minimum wage. They must calculate their gross pay, taxes, net pay, and all of their expenses. They must choose an actual place to live online, pay transportation, food costs, utilities, etc. They must determine whether they are in debt or not, make changes if needed, and summarize what they learn from the assignment. This Word Document sets up the assignment with students and makes it easy
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7th - 12th
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Economics Video Study Guide: Monsters, Inc.
This video study guide contains 16 multiple-choice, economics-themed questions that can be used in conjunction with the 2001 film Monsters, Inc. (Rated G - 92 minutes)
Following the AP Economics exams last spring, I agreed to allow my economics students to select a film to watch in class, on the condition that they would answer questions about the economic themes in the film. The result was this study guide, which we used to discuss the economic concepts demonstrated in the movie.
Some of the
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6th - 12th
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Google Sheets Activities Bundle
This bundle includes 12 engaging Google Sheets Activities consisting of:Introductory level (Shows students why spreadsheets are useful and efficient)Intermediate level (formatting, sorting, formulas)Advanced level (conditional formatting, pivot tables)Links to the Products included in this bundle:Intro Activity: Calculator VS SpreadsheetSpreadsheet Vocabulary Word SearchGoogle Sheets Basics Google Sheets Budgeting ActivityGoogle Sheets Functions ActivityPivot Tables ActivityGoogle Sheets Large D
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Economics- Classifying Factors of Production Activity
Economics- Classifying Factors of Production Activity
This worksheet has students classify 15 different factors of production as either a natural, capital, human, or entrepreneurial resource by placing a check mark or an “x” in the appropriate box. This is a great activity for students to comprehend the factors of production. An answer key is provided.
Please visit our store for great keyboarding/typing materials, Microsoft Office materials, business-related materials, icebreaker activities, h
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5th - 12th
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Economics- Factors of Production- Opening an Italian Restaurant and Hair Salon
Economics- Factors of Production- Opening an Italian Restaurant and Hair Salon
This activity will have students thinking about the four factors of production- natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. For the first activity, students will pretend they are opening an Italian restaurant and make a list of what natural, human, capital, and entrepreneurial resources they would need. The students will then do the same thing for a hair salon. The document i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Keyboarding- Clues for Keyboarding- Memorizing the Keys Activity/Game
Keyboarding- Clues for Keyboarding- Memorizing the Keys Activity/Game
Note: Thumb nail images very messed up. Each activity/answer key is on its own separate page- not starting on the same! 6 pages altogether. Will be perfect when download.
This download that is a Word document contains 3 versions of the same activity. Students will be given a list of 26 clues (one for each letter of the alphabet) and they need to identify what letter key the clue is referring to. Examples of clues include: I
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mock Career, Resume, and Job Application Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to get students to think about career choices and how to approach applying for employment. In this task, the student will choose one of four scenarios, and they will choose a job that pays over $46,000 to apply for using indeed.com. They will then make a resume that fits that scenario, and apply for a job with their real name and a fake work history that they create based off of the chosen scenario.
The job application requires Microsoft Word 97 or higher u
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Keyboarding- Typing- Pangram Sentences
Keyboarding- Typing- Pangram Sentences
A pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. This handout contains 14 pangram sentences for students to practice typing after they have learned all the letter keys. It is great practice for them. You can have the students use a keyboard skin or keyboard cover if you have one of them.
*Please see our store for another great similar activity related to palindromes. A palindrome is a word, phrase, sentence, or number that reads the s
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Movie Guide: The True Cost
This Netflix documentary will change how students think about their clothing purchases and consumption habits overall. Great for Social Studies or Family and Consumer Science, this 95 minute documentary examines the origins of where our clothing is produced, and its cost to the people who make it, our environment and the planet as a whole. Suitable for any level of middle or high school where you are discussing economy, global trade, environment this film will open up much to discuss. Lesson
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8th - 12th
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Economics: Small Business Project
This is a multiple-day small business project for students. It was created for an economics course, but could be used in a business course as well. It is a step by step project where the students will create their own business. They have daily worksheets that will help them walk through the steps of creating a business while learning the terminology. In the end, they will create a presentation for a possible investor and present it to the class, much like they do on the show, "Shark Tank."
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7th - 12th
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Student Loan & College Admission Project
This web based research activity challenges students choose colleges they plan to attend college. Students will research admission standards for their colleges and compare those to their own academic successes. After choosing colleges, students will be taken through the loan repayment process. My students every year comment on how they had no idea the costs and requirements of their colleges. More importantly they understand long term loan payback and interest rates. The project lasts abou
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7th - 12th
Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business
Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs.
Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes.
This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m
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2nd - 12th
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