Chris Reed

With over 100 pages of instructional resources, Getting Down to Business is a multidisciplinary instructional unit designed for advanced middle and high school learners that provides an introduction to basic business concepts and the process of starting and operating a business. Today, millions of people are turning away from traditional employment opportunities and seeking self-employment, yet only a small percentage of such attempts ever achieve success. Perhaps one of the reasons for the hi

An extracted lesson plan from the unit "Getting Down to Business," also available on Teachers Pay Teachers. In this lesson students simulate a negotiation session with three teams within a hypothetical pharmaceutical company. Each team has substantially different goals and values, yet each shares a desire to reach a successful outcome. "Getting Down to Business" is a multidisciplinary instructional unit designed for advanced middle and high school learners that provides an introduction to bas

An extracted lesson plan from the unit "Getting Down to Business," also available on Teachers Pay Teachers. In this lesson students use hypothetical business data and simple regression techniques to build a sales/revenue prediction model. "Getting Down to Business" is a multidisciplinary instructional unit designed for advanced middle and high school learners that provides an introduction to basic business concepts and the process of starting and operating a business. Today, millions of peo