You are going to set up a company/business. You are going to create and sell a product. It can be real or just a product of your imagination. Before that you must follow thisprocess:
Read pages 86 and 87 about ongoing and variable costs.
Decide what you are going to create.
Think and write a list of the ongoing costs for a year
Rent
Utilities
Insurance
Salaries
Now think and write a list with other variable costs
Materials
Shipping costs
Promotional costs
Commissions for sales targets
How much is your budget (total expenses)
Now write a text where you have to describe the process of creating this company. Things to consider: name of the company, how many people are involved in the project; where are you going to set the company; how much money are you going to earn; advantages and disadvantages of running a company.
Identify the basic characteristics and components of an ecosystem (habitat, population, community).
Understand and explain the relationships (interaction) between living things: food chains and food webs.
Identify and explain the causes and consequences of loss of biodiversity (animal extinction and human damage).
Show respect for living things.
Your final task will be:
In groups you will work on a different ecosystem, you will have to choose a country where you can find that ecosystem and you will have to create a brochure using a power point and some cardboard. You have to include the following information:
Location (world map).
Characteristics of your ecosystem (plants, animals (adaptation and interaction), climate and fun facts).
Endangered species (which human action is damaging the biodiversity of this ecosystem?)
Food chains (producers, consumers and decomposers) and food webs.
After creating your brochure you will present your work to your classmates trying to convince them to travel to your country.
Assessment Rubric : Ecosystems Power Point
Final task
CATEGORY
4-5
3
2
1
Preparedness
Creativity (food chain)
Group is completely prepared and has
obviously rehearsed.
It´s very creative.
Group is mostly prepared but needed more
rehearsals.
It´s creative.
Group is somewhat prepared, but it is
clear rehearsal was lacking.
It´s not really creative.
Group is not prepared to present.
It´s not creative at all.
Speaks Clearly
Speaks clearly and distinctly 100-95% of
the time, and mispronounces no words.
No reading.
Speaks clearly and distinctly 100-95% of
the time, but mispronounces one word
Almost no reading.
Speaks clearly and distinctly most 94-85%
of the time. Mispronounces no more than one word.
Reading most of the time
Often mumbles or cannot be understood OR
mispronounces more than one word.
Reading all the time.
Content
Country location
Characteristics of your
ecosystem (plants, animals (adaptation and interaction), climate and fun
facts).
Endangered species (human
action)
Food chains (producers,
consumers and decomposers) and food webs.
The four are included
Only three are included
Just two are included
Only one is included
Power point
appearance
The fonts are easy-to-read, the size
varies from headings and text. Text is appropriate in length for the
target audience and to the point.
Sometimes the fonts are easy-to-read, but
in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, long paragraphs, color or
busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.
Overall readability is difficult with
lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background,
overuse of bold or lack of appropriate indentations of text.
The text is extremely difficult to read
with long blocks of text and small point size of fonts, inappropriate contrasting
colors, poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting.
