Section outline

  • Team Building

    Learning Intentions
    • Start to 'Form' our class as a team
    • Build relationships (learn names, backgrounds, etc)
    • Discover our business 'prior knowledge'
    Success Criteria
    • We've learned names of all students in 10BUS3
    • We have worked together to complete a task
    • We found things that we have in common
    • We know the meaning of common business terms

    Lesson 1: Activity:
    Imagine your small group is a project team at a Human Resources firm.
    A client (Mr Suckling) wants a 20 minute 'product' that will help him and his 10BUS3 students to learn the names and Whanau of every student in the class. You must bid for the work against other groups.

    The 'Brief':
    - The 'product' must be fun, simple and certain to be effective (ie everyone knows everyone's name).
    - The 'product' can be a document, activities, memory tool, etc.
    - If successful in the tender process, the class will use your 'product' to learn students' names and Whanau.
    - Time is short. You have:
         - 20 minutes to design the product;
         - 1 minute to pitch to the client;
         - 20 minutes to deliver the product (if your bid is successful).

    Lesson 2: Activity
    • In small groups of students representing at least 3 Whanau, click this link and complete the crossword. 
    • Think about what stage our class team is at - here's a simple resource on 'Stages of Team Formation' 
    • Contribute to the shared Google Doc in Google Classroom called 'Building a Team'. This link may work. 
      • The doc asks you to add a photo of something that represents who you are as a person (eg you might be adventurous, home loving, or sporty). 
      • It asks you to give some information about yourself (a strength or skill that you're proud of, why you chose Business Studies, an embarrassing moment, etc. 

    Lesson 3: Generating Questions
    Students who have left MHJC, say that it's important to know how to ask questions in order to get the help they need and to guide their research.
    We're learning to use the 'Question Quadrant' to generate different types of question from news articles.

    Look at the picture of Pooh & Piglet. Generate questions and write them on post-it notes.
     

    Here's an example of the Question Quadrant:


    And an example using a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet!


    Comprehension questions have their answer in the story, photo, video
    Research questions have their answer in wider research eg on the internet
    Speculation questions can be answered by using our imagination about what might be (related to the text, photo, video).
    Inquiry (philosophical) questions can be answered through ethics, logic, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics. 
       Ethics - should people be allowed to buy and sell anything? 
       Logic - If people act in their own interest, will they ever donate to charity? 
       Metaphysics - how do people know what something is worth? 
       Epistomology - how do you know something?

    What do you want to learn on this 10BUS3 course?
    Generate questions about business and social enterprise to identify what you would like to learn in this 10BUS3 course.
    Here's a link to some news items, which we'll use to generate questions based on the Question Quadrant
    TradeMe stories: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/top-10-weird-trademe-stories.html
    Young entrepreneurs: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/18-04-2018/ten-young-entrepreneurs-new-zealanders-should-know-about/