Our Region

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

Classroom based

PROGRAM DURATION

6 weeks

PROGRAM GRADE LEVEL

Elementary school, 5th Grade

“Our Region” is an interdisciplinary program that introduces students to entrepreneurship and upper elementary grade social studies learning objectives, including regions, resources, supply chains, and problem solving. The program provides students with a practical approach to starting a business while preparing them to be entrepreneurial in their thinking to meet the requirements of a demanding and ever-changing workforce.

PROGRAM CONCEPTS

Advertising, Business fundamentals, Capital resources, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur characteristics, Expense, Finance tracking, Goodes and services, Human resources, Innovation, Interdependence, Loss, Manufacturing, Natural resources, Price, Products, Profit, Region, Resources, Revenue, Reward, Risk, Services, Supply, Supply chain, Trade, Traits, Transportation

PROGRAM SKILLS

Analyzing a diagram, analyzing information, assembling parts, categorizing data, cooperative trading, decision making, evaluating alternatives, following directions, mathematics, oral and written communication, presenting information, problem solving, reading for understanding, working in pairs, working in groups.