Description
This hands-on Grade 9 business course introduces the mindset, skills and processes that help entrepreneurs succeed. Students learn to take initiative, work in teams, use business technologies, design entrepreneurial ideas and communicate them through a pitch.
What You’ll Learn
- Develop an entrepreneurial mindset built on initiative, adaptability, creativity and problem-solving.
- Use leadership and project-management processes to plan and complete business-related tasks.
- Use business technologies responsibly, including attention to online safety and data security.
- Identify market needs and design, test and refine an entrepreneurial idea.
- Consider financial, social, environmental and ethical impacts when making business decisions.
- Create business communications and pitch an entrepreneurial idea to different audiences.
Skills You’ll Develop
- Leadership and project management
- Design thinking, ideation and problem-solving
- Business technology and digital communication
- Budgeting and financial decision-making
- Pitching, presentation, networking and professional communication
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate business leadership and use a project-management process.
- Use business-related digital technologies safely, responsibly and effectively.
- Connect business knowledge and skills to other subjects and careers.
- Explain contributions and challenges of entrepreneurs in social, economic and environmental contexts.
- Use a design process to identify market needs and develop an entrepreneurial idea.
- Refine an idea through problem-solving while considering ethical, social, economic and environmental impacts.
- Use a pitch process and create effective business texts for target audiences.
