BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP (1ST & 2ND SEMESTER) eDynamic Learning provides teachers with a comprehensive digital curriculum that includes lessons, reflective discussions, activities, assessments, podcasts, and more. Lessons incorporate engaging narratives, videos, slideshows, diagrams, and flashcards. They also include a built-in support toolbar which provides a variety of literacy tools and enables text to be translated into dozens of languages for English Language Learners. Teachers also receive a Pacing Guide, answer keys, a gradebook and the ability to customize the course to include teacher or district-authored lessons, activities, assessments and Knowledge Matters simulations!
In the Entrepreneurship 1a course students will learn that starting a business is more than just having a good idea. They’ll learn how successful entrepreneurs use and apply fundamental business concepts to turn their ideas into thriving businesses. They’ll explore topics such as identifying the best business structure, business functions and operations, finance, business laws, regulations, and more! UNIT TOPICS (1ST SEMESTER) + An Introduction to
+ Economics for Managing
Entrepreneurship—Past and Present + Using Communication to Create Opportunities
the Small Business + Government and the Small Business Relationship
+ Navigating the Business World
+ Entrepreneurial Finance
+ Small Business and the Law
+ Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business
In the Entrepreneurship 1b course students will learn to apply the concepts they’ve learned in the Entrepreneurship 1a course by completing activities that they can use to help start their own business. They’ll explore different topics representing the major parts of a business plan, such as risk, hiring, pricing, research, marketing, distribution and more. UNIT TOPICS (2ND SEMESTER)
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+ The Business Plan
+ Marketing Your Products
+ The Risks in Business
+ Pricing, Selling, and Distribution
+ Growing the Business with People
+ Marketing Research and Planning
+ Marketing the Business
+ Your Personal Finances
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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION KNOWLEDGE MATTERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP Knowledge Matters simulations allow students to experience real business scenarios and can continually refine their results to optimize outcomes and increase profitability. They offer an interactive, risk-free, gamebased environment where students can see the impact of their choices immediately.
Students can choose from 20 different businesses to launch and grow as they learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Quickly adopted and in use at high schools across the country, Virtual Business—Entrepreneurship is rapidly becoming the standard for teaching entrepreneurship. LESSONS INCLUDE: + Spotting the Opportunity + Market Research + Making the Plunge — Name, Location & Form + Making the Plunge — Form of Business & Taxes + Creating a Business Plan — Basics + Creating a Business Plan — Financials + The Elevator Pitch + Raising Money & Financials — Savings and Bank Loans
+ Raising Money & Financials — Selling Shares + Building a Team + Acquiring Resources + Going to Market — Basics + Going to Market — Growth! + Operations & Feedback — Work Flow + Operations & Feedback — Feedback & Risk Management
FEATURES INCLUDE: Shark project—Students sharpen their presentation skills as they pitch their business to classmates and seek investments. Business plan project—Teachers award students a loan based on their written business plan. Mega-mogul project—Grow your business empire (including starting/owning more than one business). Random setups—Every project has unique parameters, so students cannot copy solutions from a classmate. Dynamic cities—Students can watch as cities grow or shrink over many years, and students decide how to respond with their entrepreneurial businesses to economic cycles.
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20 SIM N E TR P EN URSHIP Smoothie Shop
Plumbing Business
Electrical Business
Physical Therapy
Hair Salon
Auto Repair Shop
Catering
Online Gift Baskets
Trampoline Park
Bowling Alley
Fitness Center
Coffee Shop
Ice Cream Shop
T-Shirt Printing
Burrito Restaurant
Lawn Care Services
DJ Services
Batting Cage
Go Kart Track
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Pizza Place
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eDynamic Learning’s comprehensive curriculum allows you to enhance and customize it to incorporate your favorite tools and applications. Learn how Knowledge Matters Virtual Business simulations complement the course to give your students an interactive, risk-free, game-based environment to test new concepts and learn business principles.
MEET THE SIMULATIONS Entrepreneurship
Restaurant
Personal Finance
From the elevator pitch, to securing financing, to operating a profitable business, this sim teaches all the keys to successful entrepreneurship.
Starting your own restaurant is a common dream. Here students do it in the safety of a virtual world while learning general business concepts.
Live out ten financial lifetimes in an hour! From banking, to credit, to investment - this is the #1 personal finance curriculum in the U.S.
Accounting
Fashion
Sports & Entertainment
From debits and credits to forensic accounting, the subject comes to life when students learn through a business they run.
Developed with the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising this sim covers trend spotting, to design, to mark-ups and mark-downs!
Your students will learn business and marketing in a context that is sure to attract them to class - the exciting world of sports and entertainment.
Retailing
Hotel
In focused lessons, students control pricing, staffing, products and more. In the capstone project, they run the whole show.
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Management
Developed with the support of the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, this sim gives students a realistic look at the inside workings of the global hospitality business.
Students will manage a manufacturing plant. They’ll recruit employees, supervise them, and even fire them if needed.
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