Your task: Plan a cross-curricular mini-project. Your
mini-project should incorporate some of the techniques you have seen on the
course so far. Complete the table below.
Topic and project title
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Business. Are you an entrepreneur?
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Your subject area: How will the project fit with your
subject?
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Social Science.
According
to the Decreto 26/2016 del 21 de julio.
Bloque 3.
Vivir en sociedad.
-La
producción de bienes y servicios para satisfacer las necesidades humanas. La
empresa, Actividad y funciones. Empleabilidad y espíritu emprendedor.
-Las
formas de producción. Las actividades económicas y los sectores de producción
en España y Europa.
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Who are you doing the project with?
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Arts and
Crafts teacher.
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Learning objectives
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-To recognize the economic activities and the sectors
of production.
-To explain the essential characteristics of a company
and to specify the different activities they carry out.
-To know different types of companies.
-To understand the benefits that the entrepreneurship
offers.
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Anticipated problems (and solutions)
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-The
first problem I have considered is the lack of time.
-Lack
of habit of working in groups.
-They
talk too much (and in Spanish).
Possible
solutions:
- To
distribute tasks to every member of the group.
-To
establish a dead line to the different activities.
-To
give an extra point if they speak English.
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Teach your mini-project. Reflect on how it went. Be prepared
to give feedback.
Group and date taught
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6th Level. From 5th
to 21st February.
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What did you do?
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(scan and attach a copy of
the material you used, or paste any links below)
Last fortnight we have
already learnt about the economic sectors in Spain and Europe.
The first activity to work on
companies and encourage them to create their own enterprise consisted on asking
my students about different jobs and try to identify the economic sector
these jobs belong to.
Then we talked about the characteristics
they think an entrepreneur have and watched a video about a famous business
man.
We watch a video from
Storybots (Thomas Edison and the light bulb). We talk about this.
After that, the 21 students
were distributed into four different teams.(5-5-5-6)
They read a text about a
family whose father created an enterprise.
Then they answered different questions and did some activities. We
checked them orally.
They thought about their own
enterprise: to choose a product or service; number of employees, departments,
how to advert itself, income and expenses…
The last activity is to prepare
a presentation about their companies and give their presentations to the
class.(21st February).
In Art and Crafts they should
have created a model of the company, but they created a city. (No material
available).
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What went well
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My students were really
exhausted about creating their own company and work in groups for two weeks.
They agreed easily.
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Reflection for future
practice
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What needed improvement/changes and
why
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They have to work in groups
more frequently. I am going to put them not only in pairs but in small groups
too whenever possible.
They speak a lot and try to
use Spanish as way of communication. I have to monitor them regularly.
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What would you change considering
level, age or other factors
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Two weeks (7 hours) is not
enough time. Three weeks is the right time for these types of activities.
Reflections should have been
worked in small groups in the classroom and then be written at home
individually.
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Links/materials
here:
Video
Thomas Edison and the light bulb. (Storybots videos)
Text:
From Social Science 6.Vicens Vives.
Presentations.
Reflection
sandwich.
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TEXT:
Cristina knows that her family hides a very special story. Her father,
who is an industrial engineer, owns a company that is dedicated to manufacture
of tiny metal devices that are implanted into hearts that are not functioning
properly to allow it to do its correct task.
This device did not always exist, and its invention
was due, in part, to her brother Pedro. Pedro was born with a heart condition
and her father, along with a team of doctors, did not stop researching until
they had come up with the design for this invention that has changed their
lives.
Cristina wants to know more about her father’s company
and asks Peter to visit it with her.
Pedro and Cristina, arriving at the factory, are given a tour of the
production area. They greet some of the operators, who have known them since
they were born. Cristina looks at the entire production line for the metal
pieces like the one her brother has implanted.
Then they go to visit the office area. At the
reception, there is a diagram of the structure of the company, the two siblings
look at it closely.
Before going to see their father, they decide to look
around at the different departments, to learn how they work.
Cristina is particularly interested in the finance department, to
understand their daily activities. There, the two siblings meet with Julia
Lopez, the head of the department. On her desk, there is a sheet full of
numbers.
After this interesting visit, Cristina and Pedro then go to visit the
Marketing Department. All of the staff are gathered in an office and have a
large image projected onto one of the walls. They are creating the
advertisement for the new product that the company is about to launch!
Pedro and Cristina join the meeting. The department
members are in full brainstorm mode to find a sentence that will accompany the
image. The next most popular is "Torres
Medical Solutions, always taking care of your heart."
Throughout the morning, they have not seen their father. They ask for
him at the reception and they tell them he's in his office.
When Cristina and Pedro get there, they find a meeting
with many cardiologist doctors, who are talking about an idea that they have
had to cure an illness. Santiago Torres has already drawn a sketch of a new
medical device in his notebook.
On seeing Peter and Cristina coming in, all of those
present are very happy. Some of the doctors Pedro has had to visit on many
occasions. The children announce the reason for his visit.
ACTIVITIES:
1.Peter, who is older than
his sister, asks Cristina if she knows what economic sector their father’s
company belongs to. She replies without hesitation:
A In
the primary sector.
B In
the secondary sector.
C In
the tertiary sector.
D In
the social goods industry.
2.Cristina asks Pedro what functions does the
human resources department have, since she has never heard of it. Her brother
explains:
A To
manufacture medical devices.
B To sell the medical devices to the hospitals.
C To
organize and coordinate the different departments of the company.
D To
organize and manage contracts for employees of the company.
3.Julia
tells Cristina that this document is the budget for the next month. Seeing his
sister’s face, Peter explains what a budget is:
A A
document in which the revenue expected is noted.
B A document in which revenues and expenses are
noted.
C A
document which plans and projects the income and expenditure they will have.
D A
document in which expenses incurred over a period of time are recorded.
4.Cristina
loves how it sounds! Peter tells her that technically this phrase in the world
of advertising is called the:
A Issuer.
B Slogan.
C Claim.
D Receiver.
5.One of the doctors tells Cristina that he and
her father had invented the device that Pedro has close to his heart. This
invention has helped many others. Pedro, who is proud, tells everyone that his
father was...
A A
dreamer.
B A
collaborator.
C An
entrepreneur.
D A
revolutionary.
6.Santiago Torres blushes. The doctors emphasize the qualities that
their father has and that has allowed him to run his business successfully.
Cristina makes a mental note about how happy she is to have a father like
Santiago:
Qualities
and skills
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Yes or no?
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Imagination
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Yes
/ No
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Perseverance
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Yes
/ No
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Personal
insecurity
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Yes
/ No
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Leadership
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Yes
/ No
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Difficulty
communicating with others
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Yes
/ No
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