Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

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• Economic and Management Science:

LO 4 Assessment Standard 1

Compares essential characteristics and skills needed to be entrepreneurial

LO 4 Assessment Standard 5

Designs posters or other materials to advertise own business venture.

Create a board game in Microsoft Publisher with a bias towards EMS and entrepreneurs.

Create cards with both good and bad skills and characteristics of entrepreneurs.

• Allow learners to see what others are doing in their community to uplift

both themselves, as well as the community.

• Bring in existing technology in a way that has not been used by the

school before.

Objectives

Learning Areas Economic and Management Science

Levels Grade 7, (12 and 13 years old) but can be adapted to Grade 4 -6 and 8 -9

Project Overview

Pictures and other sources, form

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Authors Warren Sparrow, Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School, Cape Town, South Africa

Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Movie Maker, Paint dot net, Internet, Blog and WikiSoftware

Description Each Grade 7 class creates a video about a different aspect of entrepreneurs.

The learners use their cell phones and edit the video using Moviemaker.

http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/grade7.html (Learner Samples)

These videos are then used in a website that the learners can use to complete their board game.

(www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/index.html)

Using MS Publisher, the learners create a board game with a bias towards EMS. (How to become an entrepreneur)

The learners use both the Internet, as well as videos the other classes have created for research to complete their board game

with cards that are picked up. The cards have good and bad skills and characteristics of an entrepreneur. The learners are also

required to fill in blogs and wikis.

This entire project is available online at: http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/

EMS, Grade 7, Economic and Management Science, Entrepreneur, Blogs, wiki, Cell phones, videos, Movie Maker, board

game, skills, characteristics, Internet, website.

Keywords

Project Overview

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Teacher Planning and Management

Background and Planning

Classroom Images

Background & Planning: A picture of the origin and objectives of the learning project, including the manner in

which the project was planned and managed.

Classroom Images: Images of the classroom to give you a better feeling for how the project was implemented.

Go to http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/ to see all teacher planning , templates and resources, as well as learner

samples.

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Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Teaching Resources

Click the documents below to view the teaching resources used in the teaching of this learning project:

Student Project Overview: An overview of required tasks. The steps that the learners followed can be seen at

http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/ Sample video files can also be seen here.

Documents

Project Plan Publisher Skills

BrainstormEntrep Worsheet

Notes to Parents Lesson Plans Publisher Notes

Completed T Chart Reflections Paget

Completed Sample Board Game

Visual Ranking Tool Think Pair Share Story Board Story board 2

Learner Logo1 Learner Logo 2 Learner Logo 3

Board Template Learner Board 1 Learner Card 1 Learner Board 2

Checklist

Website

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Teaching Resources

Click the documents below to view the teaching resources used in the teaching of this learning project:

Student Project Overview: An overview of required tasks.

Class Server Resources: Download teaching resources in Class Server format.

Website, wiki and blog http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep

Grade 7 videos: http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/grade7.html

All evaluations: http://www.wsparrow.co.za/entrep/evaluations.html

Grade 7 Blog https://warrensparrow.wiki.zoho.com/Grade-7-1.html

Grade 7 Entrepreneurial steps: https://warrensparrow.wiki.zoho.com/Entrepreneur-Steps.html

Online Google Survey: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGIwNG9wQzZPVjA3QnJKX0FtRGlVM2c6MA

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Assessment and Standards

Mapping the Standards

Authentic Assessment

Click the documents below to see the assessment rubrics and standards cover in this learning project:

Assessment Rubrics: Examples of assessment rubrics provided to students showing how the project was assessed.

Mapping the Standards: Mapping this project’s learning objectives against curriculum standards.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS): Performance indicators for technology-literate

students.

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21st Centurt Skills

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Teacher and School Information

Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School opened its doors in 1897. As a South African boys' public school our mission is to provide a

balanced curriculum aimed at the attainment of excellence which lays the foundation for lifelong learning and leadership.

Warren Sparrow completed his teaching diploma at the Cape Town College of education, HDE. He then completed his FDE in computer Assisted

Education through Pretoria University in 1998. his has been teaching at the school for the last 10 and a half years. Through this time he has taught all

the grades from 1 – 7. He is currently Head of Information Technology at the School. His website can be seen at www.wsparrow.co.za