ighth grade students are asked to create an imaginary company and Crews publishes the best projects on the Web.  Please Click HERE to see these awesome companies.  The following page contains the projects required of my students.  Learn about advertising, marketing and competition issues from the Federal Trade Commission site: You Are Here Questions!

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Read the comic strip to find out what company she wanted to start.  See other entrepreneurs at evancarmichael.com/

Start Your New Business

A website can be a complex task.  To start your website begin with the basics.  Read some good company slogans here.  Another great site to visit to get ideas is INC.com (http://www.inc.com/ss/ )

The classic lemonade game is a great games that will help student learn the value of money as well as understanding how to price a product and purchase supplies.  The Coffee Shop is another great game to learn valuable entrepreneurship skills.

 

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Current Technology and Career Choices

What are the current technology and career choices that will utilize my talents, interests and gifting?

Teaching Cyber Safety

What is cyber safety all about?  Create a comic about what you have learned and print it out.

Exploring Computers Work Sheet

As a quick review of basic desktop publishing (DTP) skills, students create a brochure covering a variety of computer terms and knowledge. 

Almost all businesses perform the same basic 7 roles.  This assignments allows you to review these roles and helps guide you into the world of business ownership.

Students create a document that is folded twice and serves the purpose as a promotion items for the grand opening of their business or branch store. 

It has been a hard first month but your business has survived it first true test.  It has prospered for four hard weeks.  Its time to show your appreciation to your customers and employees. 

Being able to design and construct a realistic check gives each student an opportunity to experience desktop publishing.  Students also learn the essential parts of a check and quickly grasp the fun of handling large sums of money.

Each student creates a gift certificate to use with their business letters.  The design and layout of the certificate provides more opportunities to show off business flair and marketing ability.

Learning to write interoffice correspondence is a key to a successful communication with employees.  Each student learns the basic formatting rules for designing and writing a memo.

Understanding about fax transmission can be a good starting point for the introduction of the Internet.  The design of a fax cover sheet also gives students an opportunity to use their business stationery.

Students design and printout one set of business cards to be used with their business letters.  Each student is given a choice of numerous styles and colors of business card paper.  One sheet of stock paper contains 10 perforated blank business cards.

A vital part of any business is the correspondence with customers and other important participants in the business.  It is therefore critical that a company designs appropriate and impressive company stationery.

Shown here is a typical letter head design.  Each person is responsible for creating stylish company letter head that contains the basic facts about their company.

Writing is one of the primary means of communication for a business.  Students are asked to write several letters to customers, employees, vendors, or other people associated with their company.

Your letters won't ge far unless you put them in an envelope and mail them.  Make sure you fill in all parts so the post person can deliver it to the correct person. 

Input Salary Report

In this project students create a report using a spread sheet field embedded into company stationery.  Each student must think of their top employees and provide a statement of salary and benefit amounts.  They also must create a graph from this spread sheet.

This project shows current levels of products on hand.  The report is also done on company stationery and a graph from the spread sheet is created.

Internet Parent Permission Letter

Students are given the opportunity to publish their company Internet web site.  However, before their site is published, a parent permission form must be signed.

To get an idea of how much students know about the Internet, a pretest is given to each student.  Try each question even if you are unsure about the answer.

This article was written for the typical person who knows just the basics about the Internet.  It defines many of the most popular terms associated with the Internet.  It also briefly explains the history of the Internet.

Students are asked to create several Internet pages with the purpose of promoting their company.  Each of these pages must contain a wide variety of key elements.  The requirements for making your own business web site is extensive and should be carefully reviewed with the teacher in class.  Please follow the directions of the instructor closely.

Each student is required to write a brief description about what they are publishing.  On this page is a list of things that might be included in the description.

Does the Stock Market Interest You?  If it does, you must play this simulation game.  It is the next best thing to spending $500,000.00.  Begin with the Crews Stock Market Handbook.