Business Projects Actiites Ms. Heinicke As of April 2019

Dear Introduction to Business students,

I had promised a BINGO board, but I ended up with a list. There are eleven TOPICS

Each TOPIC on the list offers at least one PROJECT and one ACTIVITY alternative. There are 28 choices.

You know how many points you need to get the grade you want for the marking period.

There are eight weeks left before 4th marking period grades are due. You will be expected to manage your time and turn in at least one project or activity per week.  

NO ONE will be allowed to leave all of their work to be grade in June.
Ms. Heinicke










Projects and Activities

  1. Jeopardy
    1. Project - research and write the questions for a Jeopardy game https://www.playfactile.com/
    2. Activity - play a round of jeopardy with the game author and an opponent
  2. Tee Shirt Project
    1. Project - use the Perfect Bag project worksheets to design, specify and price out a line of tee shirts, then render samples to model/show in class.
    2. Activity - use the Perfect Bag project worksheets to design, specify and price out a line of tee shirts
  3. Mock interview
    1. Project - research and write a script for role playing. The interviewer(employer) will have a back story AND a script of questions to ask, the applicant will have a back story and will do research about the company and the position, but will need to come up with their own answers.EXTRA CREDIT - Students will then present their role playing for the class to observe.
    2. Activity - research the interview process from the employers point of view and prepare an infographic  to help your classmates get ready for a job interview
  4. Business Plans
    1. Project 1.  - continue your semester one business plan with an advertising campaign. Include print, video and radio advertisements with a narrative identifying audience/market and competition
    2. Project 2 - Pitch your semester one business plan to investors. Shark Tank rules/ required elements: costs, sales, revenue stream, competitive informations, and failed ideas that preceded this business idea.
    3. Project 3 - Start a Business based on your original semester one business plan or an altogether new idea!
    4. Project 4 - Specify and design a website for your business. EXTRA CREDIT if you go Live.
    5. Activity- a diorama or vision board detailing your semester one business plan/ store design.
  5. LOGO Design
    1. Project - Design a logo for your business, research logos to make sure that yours is an original, experiment with scale to make sure it works in multiple sizes. Choose your font face and colors to be legible on billboards, websites and clothing labels. EXTRA CREDIT complete the trademark application paperwork.
    2. Activity - sketch a logo idea and write an explanation of your choices.
  6. Career research
    1. Project - Students should come up with a career plan to reach their employment goals based upon graduation plans, education/training plans, and experience plans. Students create a poster board or a large sheet of paper to illustrate a graphical representation of the steps they will need to take to reach their ultimate career goal. Students should also write a short-term or long-term goal to help them accomplish their ultimate career goal. For extra credit; make a video about the career that student proposed
    2. Project - Research Grants and Scholarships for your area of study! Report what you need to do to qualify and what conditions are attached.
    3. Activity - Vision board/Collage to explain aspirations, inspiration, and steps to get there.
  7. Taxes
    1. Project 1- report on the history of taxes in the U.S.A.. From the Stamp Act to the Trump Tax Plan. Identify milestones, global trade, military, economic and social policy that drove tax changes.
    2. Project 2 - select a publicly traded company about which you can find tax filing and quarterly reports to present in class.
    3. Project 3 - Find a public figure and calculate their income taxes based on their job, family, home state, and net worth figures that you can find.
    4. Activity - Research and create an infographic itemizing where your tax dollars are spent.
  8. Investing
    1. Project - report about the stock market’s history and current events. Select one industry and research three businesses. Explain market share, competition, and stock prices for each of the three business .EXTRA CREDIT includes IPO information and history of stock splits and growth over the lifetime of each business.
    2. Project - MERGERS and ACQUISITIONS. What happens when one business buys another?
    3. Project - VENTURE CAPITAL. What happens when money is invested in your business? Are investors subsidizing your business so you can compete and undercut? What happens when the business goes public (IPO) and the Venture Capital is withdrawn?
    4. Activity 1 - play an online stock market game that allows you to report on your strategic decisions to buy and sell. We are waiting for the log in and school code.
    1. Activity 2 - create an infographic explaining a recent IPO
    2. Activity 3 - Select three publicly traded businesses and create a graph reporting their stock prices, earnings,  dividend and or stock splits over the last 12 months.
  1. That’s life
    1. Project - Select someone and write their biography from birth to old age. Track that person’s education and employment. Itemize their household budget, where they spend their money and  how much they save and present your findings in a report, slide deck, graphic novel or biopic.
    2. Activity - Play the board game, LIFE, and report your experience in a biographical poster.
    3. Activity- Update the board game LIFE to reflect the paths that you and your classmates will consider when you graduate.
  2. Resellers
    1. Project - Add value and make something new or unique so that you can sell it for more than the original purchase price. This is a BUSINESS PLAN and will require all of the elements of a complete business plan!
    2. Activity - Find your niche market to resell something. Explain how you will make money reselling the object or product with a poster, diorama, video podcast, infomercial or graphic.
  3. Not for Profit
    1. Project - Research and present your findings about an existing not for profit business. Required elements: Mission Statement, source of funding, annual budget, who receives the services, how many employees are there,
    2. Activity - Create an infographic explaining the need that a not-for-profit is serving.




12 I think we should learn how to make out our own video game
Projects about the stock market & shares. How businesses go bankrupt and end up going out of business.

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