Project Based Learning (PBL)
Semester 2, 2016
Economics and Business
Humanities and Social Sciences component
We will be completing parts of the Jacaranda Humanities Alive (2012) unit on 'Managing a Business' to help you improve your group's proposal to NASA (started in Science and Maths).
This will occur every Friday, as per the program below. If you are absent, you are expected to catch up for homework. |
How am I being assessed?
In Terms 1-3 we completed the compulsory Year 10 History units in the Australian Curriculum. In Term 4 each Year 10 class is studying one of the optional Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences subjects (Geography, Civics and Citizenship, or Economics and Business) that is most relevant to their PBL project. Our class is undertaking parts of the Business curriculum for the Mockets project. You will be assessed on evidence in your bookwork (submitted weekly) and proposal (presented at the Exhibition of Learning in week 7) that you have meet the following aspects of the Economics and Business achievement standards for Year 10: |
LEARNING PROGRAM
Answers should be written in your exercise book or typed.
Hand up your book or email Ms Grant your file at the end of the lesson.
If you misplace your Humanities Alive booklet, please download the relevant pages here.
Answers should be written in your exercise book or typed.
Hand up your book or email Ms Grant your file at the end of the lesson.
If you misplace your Humanities Alive booklet, please download the relevant pages here.
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WEEK 1
Unit 1.1 - I have a business idea
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WEEK 2
Unit 1.2 - What is a business?
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WEEK 3
Unit 1.3 - Establishing a business
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WEEK 4
Unit 1.5 - Marketing a business
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WEEK 5
Unit 1.9 - Human resources and business
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WEEK 6
Time to review your proposal and ensure it is ready to present at our Exhibition of Learning in Week 7. |
WEEK 7
Reflecting on the success of our proposals. |
TEXTBOOK:
Angela Dawson, Jan Dunne and Alek Kwiatkowski, Humanities Alive 10: Economics and Citizenship, 2nd edition, Jacaranda Plus (John Wiley & Sons Australia), 2012. |