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Interviewing Dos and Don'ts
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of the question: "What are appropriate and inappropriate characteristics to exhibit during a job interview?"
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Buying Auto Insurance
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The purpose of this experience is for students to expand on their understanding of the question: "Why is auto insurance an important investment in my future?"
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Mind Your Business
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How does a person’s experience affect his/her career placement? In establishing a business, how does one determine personnel needs, and how does one determine the product to offer? How does advertising affect or influence customers, and how does the economy affect business? What have I done or experienced that can help me in a job search and how do I go about getting a job? How does a prospective employer view my application?
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Parliamentary Procedure
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This lesson will allow the student to participate in a meeting that is run using parliamentary procedure.
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Request Letter - Mail Merge
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Students prepare a request letter using mail merge in Microsoft Word. The letter is actually sent to merchants.
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Creating a Web Page
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The focus of this unit is to create a web page.
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Design a Business Card (3.5 x 2 inches)
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The student experience is within the Business Education program and falls within the course of Business Analysis/Business Computer Applications as well as graphic arts. To successfully complete this experience, the students need to know the components of a good business card and should be to be able to run the business card portion of a software program.
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How to Buy a Computer
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Essential Questions: What does it mean to "sell" the customer? What are the electronic tools (software) used in marketing a proposal?
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How to Create Publications for a School Event
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Provide the student with desktop publishing experience within a project based learning environment. Emphasis was placed in the realistic creation of such documents as well as the
accuracy within them.
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Responsibilities of a Working Citizen
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Designed to align/integrate study of computer applications with acquisition of vocational knowledge/academic knowledge. Students use basic computer applications in as word processing, database, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, and presentation capabilities to demonstrate knowledge they acquire about themselves as potential employees, new perspectives on the workplace, and understanding of how academic knowledge is used in the workplace.
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Yearbook
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The unit deals with the creation of a yearbook on computer. It covers the business side of book sales, marketing, and producing the yearbook. It uses desktop publishing on two different types of software with much emphasis on graphics. Students must understand business contract, deadline to publishers, and the actual creation of a book.
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Yearbookkeeping
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Creating a yearbook using spreadsheets,databases and word processing documents that help to make this process go smoothly.
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McCadan's Quarterly Report
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Community Research: This learning experience is part of a larger learning unit called Data Analysis Interpreting Tables and Graphs. In this learning unit, fourth graders were presented with an authentic problem from a local business and were challenged to solve the problem using experimental inquiry. Students were expected to analysis data, generate graphs, draw conclusions and submit their findings in a business letter format. In partnership with the local business, the students each received a personal response from the company’s plant manager.
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Death and Taxes
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Students will analyze facts and documents related to the study of WWI. Concepts such as, conflict, nationalism, imperialism, science and technology and the effect geography had on the region will be studied.
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I Need Money - I Need a Job
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We all expect students to work and earn money for the things they want. Who teaches them these skills? This is the perfect lesson for not only students who will begin to work during their high school years, but for all students. This experience is one that may be adjusted for any school classroom. Depending on the age level and individual student needs, the experience length may need to be adapted accordingly.
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Banking
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Students will independently set up their own bank account
at the bank of their choice. Students will pick one of the following essential
questions and write a five paragraph essay answering the question. They will
include this in their presentation.
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Career Exploration/Job Shadowing
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This unit is designed to guide students in making career decisions. They will begin by examining their interests, matching their interests to a career, exploring how to attain that career and finally job shadowing a person in that occupation.
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Career Explorations
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Cuides students in making career decisions and electronic resumes.
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Good for Business?
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Global Studies students will examine an
assigned country guided by a series of worksheets
and exercises to determine; (1) if Oneida Limited
should expand its market into this country and (2)
if the student would like to represent the company
in this country. Through a series of data collec-
tion and examination exercises the students gain
insight into how to use the gathered information
for decision-making in the culminating writing
activity. Additionally, the unit gives students
an opportunity to see how the content of Global
Studies is relevant in today's inter-dependent
business world.
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Do you Have What it Takes
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Project based: job/career search.
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Celebrate the Arts
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Advertising Design Class, students are expected to complete assignments using different mediums, and will understand the roles a person in the Advertising Field has, includes meeting deadlines, being creative, working toward a specific goal and presenting completed projects in a professional manner. Students are upperclassmen, most have had some art courses and been introduced to the basics. Assignments are challenging, but allow students to succeed and see personal growth, allows students to create an Advertising Campaign in which they are able to support the arts program, creating T-shirts, designing posters, billboards, and videotaping commercials created from original storyboards. Theme of this campaign is "Celebrate the Arts."
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