Business Education Class Information
Class descriptions & curriculum maps
Accounting is a full year elective for students in grades 11 and 12. Accounting is the language of business that everyone needs to know. This is done by recording, analyzing and summarizing transactions into proper reports, along with development of the double entry accounting theory. In addition to accounting for a business, students also learn about banking, managing a checking account, personal income taxes, and QuickBooks.
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
⢠Perform basic accounting procedures used to operate a service or merchandising business.
⢠Balance my checking account and complete a 1040EZ tax return.
⢠Understand the complete accounting cycle.
⢠Find and correct manual accounting errors.
⢠Recognize if I have the aptitude or interest in accounting as a career.
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Business Law is a one semester elective for students in grades 11 and 12. Business Law affects each of us on a daily basis, when buying a car, taking clothes to a dry cleaner, obtaining jobs, renting apartments, or obtaining credit. Because business law touches on so many facets of our varied roles as citizens, workers, and consumers, an understanding of law is an essential life skill. The class attends a sentencing hearing at the federal court house in Sioux Falls and students write argumentative essays on a law-related subject of their choosing.
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
⢠Understand how our lives are affected everyday by our legal system.
⢠Use logic and reasoning to analyze legal situations.
⢠Recognize if I have the aptitude or interest in law as a career.
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Business Marketing is a one semester elective for students in grades 11 and 12. Business marketing is designed to give an overview of business marketing, including marketing technology, global marketing, ethics, and customer service. This class will involve a lot of discussion and a variety of computer and “hands-on” activities. Students will learn and use Adobe Photoshop for print advertisements. We will work in conjunction with a local business or organization on a school-to-career marketing project.
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
⢠Describe the need for marketing information.
⢠Explain the concept of competition, price, productivity, & marketing strategies.
⢠Identify factors affecting a businessâÂÂÂÂs profit.
⢠Analyze product information to identify product features and benefits.
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Money Matters and Computer Applications are each semester long classes required of freshmen and designed to build on technical skills learned in middle school. Students will use advanced features of Microsoft Word and Excel, practice Internet safety, use AEA online resources. They will be introduced to the financial skills they need to make, manage, multiply, and protect their hard-earned money through Chad Fosterâs Financial Literacy for Teens curriculum and NEFE High School Financial Planning Program. Students will participate in a regional Stock Market Game competition.
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use numeric keypad for 10-key input
- Utilize online databases at Iowa AEA Online website
- Operate Microsoft Office Suite (emphasis on Word & Excel)
- Use Windows File Management System
- Use tech equipment including printer, scanner, digital camera, & Internet
- Cross-curricular projects
- Create personal financial plan
- Define stock market terms
- Understand role of insurance
- Understand importance of saving and investing
- Practice Internet safety
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Advanced Computer Applications In this one-semester course you will develop high level computer skills, including advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
Adobe Photoshop. A special project will be completed and chosen based on student interest, class size, and available technology.
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Create document with title page, table, chart, and watermark.
- Generate from letters, mailing labels, & directories.
- Create a professional newsletter.
- Create presentation with custom backgrounds and SmartArt diagrams.
- What-if-analysis and working with large worksheets.
- Financial functions, data tables, and amortization schedules.
- Create, sort, and query a table.
- Create templates and work with multiple worksheets & workbooks.
- Link an Excel worksheet and chart to a Word document
- Work with layers, type, gradients, brushes, color effects, filters, blending modes, masks, transparency, alpha channels in Adobe PhotoShop
- Use acquired technology knowledge to complete special project, which will vary each year
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Web Page is a one semester elective for students in grades 10, 11 and 12. Students will learn how to design a web page, use digital images, and locate resources on the Internet; then contribute these skills to creating and managing the Central Lyon web page. Students enrolled in this class will be responsible for a portion on the CL web page and have the opportunity to apply to work as a webmaster.
Click here to view the web page class syllabus.
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Click here to view webmaster curriculum map.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Operate digital camera and edit images
- Understand web page design
- Create articles in SOCS, along with polls & podcasts
- Organize folders used to save updated web pages
- Update sections and articles on CL web page
- Interpret basic HTML Code
- Meet deadlines and organize time
- Take pride in finished product www.centrallyon.org
