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Our
Nation®
Our
Nation
(Grade 5) provides practical information about
businesses’ need for individuals who can
meet the demands of the job market, including
high-growth, high-demand jobs. Further, it introduces
the concept of globalization of business as
it relates to production materials and the need
for students to be entrepreneurial in their
thinking to meet the requirements of high-growth,
high-demand careers worldwide. There are five
required, volunteer-led sessions and one optional
supplemental session.
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SESSIONS
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KEY
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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One: What’s Your Big Idea?
Students
practice being entrepreneurs by turning
ideas into businesses. They identify factors
needed to create a variety of entrepreneurial
ventures and design an advertisement for
their product.
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- Experience
free enterprise and entrepreneurship.
- Identify
the key factors in establishing an entrepreneurial
business.
- Create
an advertisement.
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Supplemental
Session: Business Organization
Students further explore entrepreneurship
by experiencing the three ways a business
can be organized.
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Two: What’s a Resource?
Students
learn about resources and how they apply
to technology, workers, and the needs of
businesses and industries.
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- Describe
resources, particularly human and capital
resources.
- Define
scarcity and opportunity cost.
- Discuss
technology as a capital resource in demand
by most businesses.
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Three: Job to Job
Students
examine the skills needed by jobs that are
in demand by businesses in a free enterprise
system, particularly the skills related
to high-growth, high-demand jobs.
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- Identify
the skills that support high-growth, high-demand
needs in the workplace.
- Analyze
their own skills to see how they fit in
the workplace.
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Four: A Cluster of Skills
Students
learn about job clusters and the background
necessary for each job. They are introduced
to a simple resume that uses typical resume
components.
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- Identify
clusters of jobs and the background required
by those jobs.
- Create
a simple resume.
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Five: Worldwide Connections
Students
are introduced to specialization and competition.
They explore how their nation is connected
to the global economy. They see how specialization
and technology have contributed to free
enterprise and their effect on the global
business world.
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- Describe
specialization and competition in business.
- Experience
the global needs of many businesses.
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CONCEPTS
Advertising, Capital resources, Career preparation, Communication,
Competition, Corporation, Demand, Employees, Employers,
Engineering, Entrepreneur, Free enterprise, Global competition,
Goods, High-growth, high-demand jobs, Human resources,
Natural resources, Opportunity costs, Partnerships, Price,
Products, Profit, Resources, Resume, Scarcity, Services,
Skills, Sole proprietorship, Specialization, Stock, Stockholders,
Supply, Technology, Technophile, Technophobe |
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SKILLS
Addition and subtraction, Brainstorming, Conceptualizing
and designing advertisements, Creative thinking, Critical
thinking, Decision-making, Drawing conclusions, Estimating,
Evaluation, Following directions, Graphing and graph interpretation,
Listening, Map reading, Problem-solving, Reading and writing,
Reasoning, Role-playing, Teamwork, Verbal communication,
Working in groups |
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