Lesson 5.2 – Advancing Your Enterprise
This is Lesson 5.2, “Advancing Your Enterprise,” from the National FFA Agri-Entrepreneurship Program (Unit 5). The lesson teaches students the eight roles of a business manager through a carousel role-play activity and explores how an entrepreneur can keep a business ethical and legal using a Golden Rule discussion and an ethical/unethical practices activity. It includes teaching masters, activity sheets, e-Moment review games, application activities, and an evaluation rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe and summarize the roles of a business manager
- Identify ways an entrepreneur's business will remain ethical and legal
- Time required
- 60 minutes
- Materials
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- CD player/computer and speakers
- Classical music selection
- One copy of AS.1 through AS-8 for each student
- Once copy of AS.9 for each student
- Precepts
- K. Emotional Growth — K1. Cope with life's trials; K6. Seek appropriate counsel. N. Decision Making — N3. Make ethical decisions
- Key Terms
- Planner, Organizer, Leader, Staffer, Coordinator, Representative, Innovator, Motivator
- Resources
- Mariotti, Steve. Entrepreneurship: Starting and Operating a Small Business. New Jersey. Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers. 2007
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.6Applying Knowledge — Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions, media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.