All successful businesses have a business plan. Through teaching business planning basics, students learn the value of planning and the methods of organization, in addition to the many skills needed to develop a business plan.

Websites

  • Entrepreneur Career Guide
    www.khake.com/page31.html 
    Want to be your own boss? Learn about starting your own business with the following Web resources. Lesson plans for business, economics, finance and law are also included.
  • Teenvestor
    www.teenbusiness.com/investors-overview/ 
    This site gives information to young entrepreneurs about the benefits and misconceptions of being a young entrepreneur, business ideas, business plan basics, common mistakes, laws, taxes and record keeping.

Lessons

  • What Do You Want to Sell? Exploring the Elements of a Company's Business Model
    learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/what-do-you-want-to-sell/
    In this lesson, students explore how companies describe their products and services. They then write business plans for companies based on their interests or needs.
  • Inventive Incentive
    www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM260
    Through a class discussion and using the interactive Flash activity titled " Inventive Incentive Business Plan," you will differentiate between positive and negative incentives as well as develop positive and negative employee incentives for an imaginary business. In doing this, you will be able to identify incentives used to encourage you in your home and school.