1 March - 7 March
Section outline
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Kia ora...students and welcome to week 5. For this week you will focus on business ideas. Your ideas must be well thought of that apply to our community and country. Again, recap the reasons why people are unemployed in NZ and think of ways that are practical and achievable for business ideas to spring up.

Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Researched successful business that have been started by youth groups in various parts of the world and drew inspiration from these ideas
- brainstormed with my team ideas to kick start a business that is suitable to New Zealanders
- Began to work on a business plan taking into account all criteria to operate a business
Activities:
- See whiteboard on images and stories from the youth across the world that have started businesses form home, and become very successful as a result.
- Research one case study of a youth whom has made an impact in their community or county or even internationally by starting their own business. In your analysis , think of the idea( product or service) , how it began, who was their target audience, price of the product or service.
- With your teams understand what is meant by the 4 Ps of marketing. Discuss and understand this concept in detail as you would apply it to your own business.
- Begin thinking of ideas that you think are suitable to start a business in NZ.As a team decide on one idea that you would use to design a business plan.
- See an example on the white board on how a business plan is created

- With this idea, draw your service or product ( with Labels)and discuss why is it relevant/ necessary to support our local community.
- Design a Business Logo, with a business name.
- How many people would be part of your team. What would they earn per hour. What are you total earning projections do you think you would make in a month and in a year? Show working out here.
- Design an advert that would help promote your business.This advert can be in the form of a banner / advert for Social media eg Face Book or Instagram/ or an advert for a magazine or newspaper.
- Draw/ sketch your product with labels. Also indicate materials used or ingredients used.
- Design all your ideas in the form of a visual( chart thats ahas a flow to it)
- Create a theme to your chart
- Finalise your work for submission by end of week 6. Submissions at start of week 7.
Homework:
Write here...FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:
- We are FOCUSING...developing our understanding on the challenges that affect the global and more focused on community issues
- We are FOCUSING...explaining the reasons why the community undergo problems, in particular economic constraints
- We are FOCUSING...on the impacts and consequences of unemployment and other economic constraints
PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:
- We are PLANNING... to construct a budget and business plan so that we can design ideas that would help people create businesses so be self reliant.
- We are planning to work as a team and share ideas/ knowledege/ skills so that our outcome looks successful and achievable.