1. "How To Start A Teenage Business!" - Entire Semester Lesson Plans: Please be aware that there will be updating all semester at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Lesson_Plans.html
   
   
2. Curriculum Overview
   
   
   • Career Planning. "Choices Explorer" and "Choices Planner" are now sponsored by the Colorado Deparatment of Higher Education and is provided free of charge through the Collegeincolorado.org website at: http://collegeincolorado.org/home.aspx. Create your own account and go through the following web sites below. As you work your through, you will create your own portfolio to better understand your future career needs, training and business that want to create especially for this class.
     
     
     • Explore Career Options
     • Higher Education Opportunities
     • High School Coursework Planner
     • Test Preparation
     • College Planning Timelines

   • There's also a great web site to help student understand how to start up a bussines at: http://www.jeffcoworkforce.org/empRunBiz.php sponsored by the Jefferson County Workforce. A free version of "Career Futures" for career information is located at www.thefunworks.org. There is an interst quiz and then students can research different careers which are oriented for middle school age students.
   • Introduction of Developing a Business Plan for a teenager entrepreneurship by creating their own business (dog sitting, house cleaning, baby sitting, tutoring, lawn mowing, skate board repair, guitar lessons, ski waxing--anything the students might be interested in) after brainstorming several options that a 12-14 year old could do
   • Internet Search Engine Research for potential business models.
   • Word Processing to draft a business model plan. Must define minimum standards: number of people employed, definition of services and/or products, how the company will seek business, advertise, etc. Software: Appleworks or Microsoft Word.
   • Spreadsheet to establish a working budget for a two-year business model. Microsoft Excel or Appleworks.
   • Database to provide an assessment of potential inventory, costs, etc. Appleworks.
   • Develop a Schemata for Business Model: Use Intel's "Thinking Tools" instead of Inspiration, free at http://www.intel.com/education/tools/ to develop a diagram.
   • Develop: Promotion and Advertising with business cards, brochures, flyers, web pages, PowerPoint presentation.
   • Human Resources: "How To" interview, present a 30 second summary, networking for potential jobs, how to develop a dynamic resume,how to answer difficult interview questions, what questions to ask at an interview, how to prepare for a Job Fair, how to dress for an interview, etc.
   • Podcasting for promoting their business
   • Implement the Business Plan!!!

Software Applications Being Utilized in Class or at Home!

1. HTML: NotePad (or any ASCII editor), Microsoft Publisher and web browser
2. Photo editing: Adobe PhotoElements 4.0 and Picassa (free download from Google) for editing/cropping/improving photos
3. Web-based artwork: animated GIFS, clip art, photos, banners, backgrounds, calendars, etc. All free!
4. Scanning artwork, photos.
5. Digital cameras: maybe can borrow from Yearbook or other resources at Carmody?
6. Serious GUI web development: Dreamweaver, PageBreeze (freeware) or Microsoft Publisher
7. PrintShop and/or Microsoft Publisher for designing artwork, folding brochures, flyers, business cards, etc. beyond web pages.
8. http://www.designyourowncard.com to develop professional business cards.
9. Audacity by Soundforge ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ ) for creating audio files to .WAV or .MP3 audio files for your multimedia and podcasting projects. PC and Mac availability. Freeware. Be sure to download (extract) the LAME encoder plug-in which is needed to produce MP3s.
10. A graphic file converter to change graphic files to other file types (TIFF to GIF or JPEG). A free download available for PC is Easy Graphic Converts 1.1.7 at: http://www.bluechillies.com/download/35018.html .
11. Microsoft PowerPoint or any presentation program for the multimedia project. Keynote by Apple would also be a good Mac multimedia slide presentation program to use besides PowerPoint at: http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/
12. Microsoft Word or any word processor foro creating business documents.
13. Microsoft Excel or any spreadsheet for calculating and projecting business expenses/profits.
14. PDF conversion software: free: PrimoPDF
15. Others to be added