Unit Portfolio Presentation Chris Carlson BIZTOWN

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Unit Summary During this unit, the students work as a team to succeed in a global economy. The students focus on the element of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy to provide students with a solid foundation of business, economics, and free enterprise education. Students take on the role as citizens, community workers and consumers to discuss citizen rights and responsibilities, demonstrate understanding of the free enterprise system, understand nonprofit organizations in communities, build money management skills, develop business practices and responsibilities and display skills necessary to successfully participate in the world of work.

Curriculum – Framing Questions Essential Question Are you prepared? Unit Questions What do you want to be when you grow up? What is a responsible citizen? Content Questions What characteristics are required for that career? How do you balance a checkbook? What does COO mean? How do I get a job?

BizTown Collaborating with peers in a simulated city. Analyzing data to balance a personal and business checkbook. Solving problems and making decisions about their career. Communicating using well-wisher to relay job specific information 21 st Century skills enhanced by completing this unit:

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My Goals for the Course The students will successfully: gain the skills required to be a productive citizen. work in groups to complete assigned tasks to prepare a business. explain how money changes hands and works its way through the economic sytem.