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__Final Project Overview and Plan__ For this project, students in grades 9-12 will develop a business plan. The plan will be of a small business that will be opened and operated in Tioga County Pennsylvania. The details of the plan follow. A separate portion of the plan will focus on how the business setting would have been different in last 100 years. Students may choose a ten year time period to compare these differences. The purpose of the historical element of the project is for students to understand how the business climate and marketing aspects of their business would have been different in an era other than the current one. __ Course __ My Money - My Business (Personal Finance and Business Introduction) __ Prerequisites __ General Business Unit 1-Business and Economic Basis Introduction to Marketing Concepts __ Related Topics __ Business structures and foundations, economic cycles, marketing, target marketing, market segmenting, and advertising / promotion. __ Objectives __ 1. Students will be able to design a business around the needs and wants of the customer in the area of the county they select. Students will be able to select the location based on needs for the product (s) service (s) offered by the business. a. A plan of how the business will be structured will be presented by the student. b. A plan of how the physical layout of the business will be designed. c. Students will be able to justify the decisions made in the plan using information learned in the course. 2. Students will be able to use demographical data in determining the appropriate target market and location for the business. 3. Students will be able to select the appropriate marketing methodology for the business and the product (s) service (s) being offered. Students will justify these marketing methods in correlation with the target market (s) in terms of costs. 4. Students will be able to present the similarities and differences of their plan from another time period. This time period may be a ten year period agreed upon between the teacher and student. These comparisons will be in terms of... a. Differences in products and services as compared to now-why? b. Differences in location-why? c. Differences in marketing methods-why? 5. Students will be able to work in teams of two in an effective and efficient manner for developing, organizing and presenting the project. 6. Students will be able to present the project to other class members in an organized and clear format, providing a vivid overview of the plan. __ Plan Layout __ Please See PowerPoint Presentation __ Evaluation __ Please see Rubric __ Resources __ Are used as a guide and linked into the PowerPoint. Students will review this with teacher, but it will also be available on a public drive for reference. All resources will be provided through a link since not all of them are on the PowerPoint. Link Page WOW Lawrence! This is impressive! Very professional-looking and full of information and primary source links. Your assignment directions are very clear. This is a great project and gives students a lot of freedom to choose a topic that interests them. I'd love to see the final projects your students produce. As I've read your lessons over the past few weeks, I've noticed that they involve a lot of higher level thinking. Great job! jean p.s. Loved the Digital Deli site!

Lawrence- Great idea for a project. I was obviously a little more drawn to your project than most because of the business end of it. I think this is an idea that the students will love and I think they will have a lot of fun with it. This is a great project to help students practice setting up a business. Many high school students will be starting their own business within a few years from graduation. This project will obviously benefit any of those future entrpreneurs that are in your class. Nice job!

Doug