Lesson Plan : Examining the Global Marketplace
Teacher Name: | Jacquelyn Grier |
Grade: | College/University |
Subject: | Other |
Topic: | Weavers Go Dot-Com, and Elders Move In |
Content: | In this lesson students analyze the impact that e-commerce has in their community, as well as in small traditional communities that one might not expect to be part of the dot-com marketplace. Students develop business plans for imagined businesses entering the world of e-commerce and read New York Times articles to further contemplate how e-business has allowed small business to compete internationally. |
Goals: | Discuss how e-commerce has affected lives around the world. |
Objectives: | Students will: 1. Asses the impact that e-commerce and the Internet has on their lives, the community where they live and the world. 2. Examine how e-commerce has impacted a tribal village in South America by reading and discussing "Weavers Go Dot-Com, and Elders Move In." 3. Develop business plans for imagined businesses entering the world of e-commerce; express how e-business has allowed small business to compete internationally. 4. Compose essays expressing how the dot-com revolution has impacted a business discussed in another article; compare and contrast the ideas presented in the article to those explored in the featured article. |
Materials: | Pens, pencils paper classroom blackboard copies of "Weavers Go Dot-Com, and Elders Move In" ( one per student) |
Introduction: | Have students create a journal and label two columns: 1. Improve the World 2. Hurt the World Think of e-commerce (business conducted through the Internet. List on the Improve the world side examples that you can think of about how e-commerce and the Internet might be advantageous to you and your community. On the hurt the world side list examples of how e-commerce and the Internet might be detrimental to you and your community. After assignment is done class may be divided into groups to brainstorm what they feel is necessary to start doing business on the web ( work force, supplies, technological knowledge) and may draft business proposals outlining the requirements necessary for their companies to succeed in e-business today. |
Development: | Students will be able to share their views concerning these issues involving e-commerce. |
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