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Business, Management & Administration

Business Management and Administration careers encompass planning, organizing, directing and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations.  Business Management and Administration career opportunities are available in every sector of the economy.

This cluster is closely aligned to Finance. Please also review the resources listed there.

GENERAL RESOURCES    COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS    LESSONS AND CURRICULUM EXAMPLES

GENERAL RESOURCES
Business Education and Resources. This ambitious teacher has created this site full of links to lesson plans and resources for teachers of economics, business law, general business, and more. A MUST VISIT site. Pop-up ads

Contact Information and Background Documents  This provides some background information on this career cluster. Source: Careerclusters.org

Junior Achievement Offers free enterprise and economic education to school children from elementary through high school. Source: JA

Robbins School of Business  An example of programs and courses offered at a business school. Source: University of Richmond

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS
B.C. Integrated Package - Business Education 8-10  Comprehensive curriculum  for this British Columbia  Grade 8 to 10 course. Source: B.C. Ministry of Education

B.C. Integrated Package - Business Education 11-12 Comprehensive curriculum  for this British Columbia  Grade 11 to 12 course. Source: B.C. Ministry of Education

Chesterfield County Curriculum Overview  Complete guides to Business Management curriculum and much more. Source: Chesterfield County, VA

Florida Business Technology Curriculum Framework  This covers both Business and Computer Skills, Accounting and Business Management. Source: Florida Dept. of Education

Model Curriculum Framework for Marketing Management From the State of Washington, this covers both Marketing and Business Management. Source: OSPI pdf icon

Utah Business Management  Core standards for the course. Source: UEN

LESSONS AND CURRICULUM EXAMPLES
BUSINESS

All in Business None of your Business? It's ALL your business. In this lesson, you'll map out the basic decisions you'd have to make to start your own business. Source: Econedlink

Group Project: Using A Computer to Run a Small Business  In this simulation, students will have different assignments related to their particular business, including handling customer complaints, preparing billing statements, and preparing desktop publishing assignments. Source: not identified

Greatest Tyrant in the State of Pennsylvania: A Late Nineteenth –Century Rail Worker Describes Management In this transcript taken from testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives in the late 1880s, Joseph P. Cahill, a worker in the freight department of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, describes the petty tyrannies inflicted on workingmen by the company dispatcher. Source: Joseph Cahill

Introduction to Business A collection of great ideas, the latest in textbook publishing and other business news for the classroom. Source: South-Western

Introduction to Business This text-based lesson introduces students to concepts of wants and needs and the reasons for business. Source: Amy Rogers

Investigating Career Clusters: Business  A description of the cluster with suggested activities from a textbook publisher. Source: Glencoe pdf icon

Sole Proprietorships In Accounting, most textbooks begin with the study of sole proprietorships.
 

BUSINESS MATH AND ECONOMICS
EconedLink Many lessons and activities that support this career cluster. Source: Econedlink

Economics Lesson Plans  Several lessons that might be of value to business courses. Source: ERIC

Economic Resources for K-12 Teachers  EcEdWeb is your headquarters for teaching resources for K-12 or pre-college economics. Source:  EcEdWeb

How can entrepreneurs control costs?
Students examine the difference between fixed and variable costs, make predictions and recommend actions for a hypothetical business. Lesson 20 from Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy.  Source: National Council on Economic Education.

Robert Dixon's Internet Resources  Resources for secondary school teachers of economics. Source: Robert Dixon

Robert Dixon's Internet Resources - Update  Resources for secondary school teachers of economics. Source: Robert Dixon

To Market, Which Market  A market exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services. Markets have existed throughout history. Students are participants in many markets. Source: NCEE
 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Ed Brooks: Trading Apples International Marketing Director Ed Brooks investigate competition with other countries and non-tariff barriers to trade. Source: Port of Seattle

Kenneth Pai: China and the WTO Students help Port of Seattle International Marketing Director Kenneth Pai evaluate and then explain China's trade relationship with the United States. Source: Port of Seattle

INVESTING AND THE STOCK MARKET
Here's Your Chance to Make a Million  In this lesson you learn how efficient markets affect investor's efforts to time the stock market; they also learn why people who invest in stocks should have long-term investment goals. Three part lesson. Source: Econedlink

Iowa Electronic Markets Educator Resources for using the simulations. Source: IEM

Rogue Market Simulation  Stock Market concepts learned with a twist--trade stock in celebrities instead of companies. Currently off-line, keep coming back to this site. Source: Open World

Virtual Stock Exchange Simulation Learn how to invest online in this stock market simulation. Source: VirtualStockExchange

Playing the Stock Market Students have spent time exploring the stock market through the Internet and have completed a packet working through exercises to show them how a company sells stocks to provide funds to get started with to how a company tracks it's stocks to show a profit or loss. Source: UEN
 

Stock Market Basics Lesson Students will understand some of the basic operation of the stock market and the flow of money in the U.S. Source: GNB

Web-based interactive Stock Market Learning Project for K-12  This project revolves around an interactive stock market competition between classmates using real-time stock market data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Source: GNB

What is a stock, or who owns McDonald's?
Students will explore the fundamentals of stock ownership. They discuss how stock owners share the risks and rewards of purchasing stocks. Lesson 3 from Learning for the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Game Across the Curriculum, ©National Council on Economic Education.

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