Q7. Entrepreneurship: Planning Business
You've got your awesome business idea—now it's time to make it real!
In this Quest, you're the boss with a plan. You’ll figure out the details:
- What are you selling?
- Who’s buying it?
- Why does your business matter to you—or even the whole world?
You’ll fill out a business plan (don’t worry, it’s super helpful), and even come up with cool ways to market your idea—just like real entrepreneurs do.
Bring your creativity, imagination, and big dreams. Let’s turn your idea into something amazing!
Discussion questions to think about as you are playing the video below:
- What problem is their business solving?
- How is their business idea different or innovative?
How to Start Your Own Business
Direct link (3:07 min.)
Organizing Your Thoughts!
To assist you in the organizing your thoughts about creating your business plan, you will be completing a series of slides.
- Keep in mind that you will be creating a flyer or video advertisement for your business and then adding it to the last slide.
- Make sure to review the rubric slide to guide your project to completion.
Select the slide deck linked below.
- If you are a Google school, you will want to make a copy and save in your own Google Drive.
- If you are a Microsoft school, you will want to download the slides into a PowerPoint slide deck.
- Follow your teacher's instructions of sharing the slides.
16.Q7 Planning Your Business Slide Deck
Once you have completed the Planning Your Business slide deck, add it to your Career Prep Portfolio page Q7 Planning Your Business. Check out 16.Q7 Planning Your Business Portfolio as an example.
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, developing strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes
b. Build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies
2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world
3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits
c. Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections or artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions
d. Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions
6. Creative Communicator
a. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication
c. Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations
d. Publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences
Websites and Documents
Websites
- None
Videos from Outside Sources
21t4s Documents & Quizzes
- Vocabulary Quizlet