Business: Co-operative Business
Design
Goal:
In this activity, students will engage in a hands-on project to identify a specific need within their local community and devise a socially responsible business that addresses that need.
Key concepts:
Ethics and social responsibility in business, how needs and wants create opportunities for business, forms of business ownership, business development.
Timing:
60 minutes
Curriculum links: (Grades 9-11)
Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Launching and Leading a Business, Entrepreneurship.
Business: Marketing your Socially Responsible Business
Goal:
Students will explore ethics and social responsibility in business and consider the role and importance of marketing in business.
Key concepts:
Learning outcomes provide a framework for students to develop knowledge, critical thinking skills and effective communication related to marketing in business.
Timing:
Document based lesson: 60 minutes
Co-design lesson: 180 minutes
Curriculum links: (Grades 9-11)
Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Launching and Leading a Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing.
Activity:
Co-op Consultant
Goal:
Students will explore solutions to entrepreneurial challenges encountered by a collective of small business owners.
Key concepts:
-
Understand the benefits of collaboration and cooperation in overcoming entrepreneurial challenges.
-
Explore how pooling resources and efforts can help small businesses scale and succeed.
-
Discuss the potential advantages of a group of sole proprietors working together to address common obstacles.
Timing:
60 minutes
Curriculum links: (Grades 9-12)
-
Accounting Essentials, Grade 11, (BAI3E) Workplace Preparation
-
Entrepreneurship: The Venture, (BDI3C) Grade 11, College Preparation
-
Entrepreneurship: The Enterprising Person, (BDP3O) Grade 11, Open
-
Entrepreneurship: Venture Planning in an Electronic Age, (BDV4C) Grade 12, College Preparation
-
Business Leadership: Becoming a Manager, (BOG4E) Grade 12, Workplace Preparation
-
Launching and Leading a Business, Grade 10, Open (BEP2O)
-
Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Grade 9, Open (BEM1O)