Learning Targets:
Targets for knowledge, skills, and behaviours below are possible targets. It is not expected that all will be covered by a single Teaching Unit. Teachers can select their learning targets using the Teaching Units provided (to the right), adaptations of these Teaching Units, or Units/Lesson Plans they develop on their own.
KNOW:
- Every country faces three basic economic questions: what to produce; how to produce it; and how to distribute what is produced
- How Canada answers the three basic questions
- How consumers influence what is produced and the concept of “consumer sovereignty”
- The role of businesses and entrepreneurs
- Different kinds of businesses that exist
- Reasons a business may succeed or fail
- Why some goods and service are produced by governments
BE ABLE TO:
- Consider their own interest in entrepreneurship
- Describe contributions of a number of businesses and entrepreneurs to the economy and to the community
- Develop enterprising skills to apply to any kind of endeavour
- Discuss and debate decisions as to what goods and services should be provided by business and/or governments
ACTION/BEHAVIOUR:
- Apply enterprising skills to a wide range of endeavours
- Support business activity that helps to improve and sustain the environment
- Identify and explore opportunities as they perceive them – in school, at home, in their community
