Our Nation (Grade 5) provides practical information about businesses’ need for individuals who can meet the demands of the job market, including high-growth, high-demand jobs. Further, it introduces the concept of globalization of business as it relates to production materials and the need for students to be entrepreneurial in their thinking to meet the requirements of high-growth, high-demand careers worldwide. There are five required, volunteer-led sessions and one optional supplemental session.
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SESSIONS
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KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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One: What’s Your Big Idea?
Students practice being entrepreneurs by turning ideas into businesses. They identify factors needed to create a variety of entrepreneurial ventures and design an advertisement for their product.
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- Experience free enterprise and entrepreneurship.
- Identify the key factors in establishing an entrepreneurial business.
- Create an advertisement.
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Supplemental Session: Business Organization
Students further explore entrepreneurship by experiencing the three ways a business can be organized.
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- Identify the three types of business organizations.
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| Two: What’s a Resource?
Students learn about resources and how they apply to technology, workers, and the needs of businesses and industries.
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- Describe resources, particularly human and capital resources.
- Define scarcity and opportunity cost.
- Discuss technology as a capital resource in demand by most businesses.
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| Three: Job to Job
Students examine the skills needed by jobs that are in demand by businesses in a free enterprise system, particularly the skills related to high-growth, high-demand jobs.
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- Identify the skills that support high-growth, high-demand needs in the workplace.
- Analyze their own skills to see how they fit in the workplace.
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| Four: A Cluster of Skills
Students learn about job clusters and the background necessary for each job. They are introduced to a simple resume that uses typical resume components.
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- Identify clusters of jobs and the background required by those jobs.
- Create a simple resume.
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| Five: Worldwide Connections
Students are introduced to specialization and competition. They explore how their nation is connected to the global economy. They see how specialization and technology have contributed to free enterprise and their effect on the global business world.
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- Describe specialization and competition in business.
- Experience the global needs of many businesses.
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