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 organizing your thoughts for creating your business plan, you will complete a series of slides.
- Keep in mind that you will create a flyer or video advertisement for your business and add 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 it 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 for 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. Connect their learning needs, strengths and interests to their goals and use technology to help achieve them and reflect on their progress.
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use, and troubleshoot current technologies, and transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
2. Digital Citizen
a. Manage their digital identity and understand the lasting impact of their online behaviors on themselves and others and make safe, legal and ethical decisions in the digital world.
b. Demonstrate empathetic, inclusive interactions online and use technology to responsibly contribute to their communities.
3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Use effective research strategies to find resources that support their learning needs, personal interests and 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. Use digital tools to visually communicate complex ideas to others.
d. Publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
Websites and Documents
Videos from Outside Sources
21T4S Documents & Quizzes