Napanee District Secondary School

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE VENTURE

BDI 3C
Credit Value: 1 Teacher: J. Wood
Department: Business Studies Department Head: L. Bongard
Date: February 2, 2010 Prerequisite(s): None

Policy Documents
The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Business Studies
Program Planning and Assessment
Ontario Secondary Schools 9 to 12 - Program and Diploma Requirements 1999

Course Description
This course focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and organize
resources to plan successful ventures that enable them to achieve their goals. Students will create a venture plan
for a student-run school-based or summer business. Through hands-on experiences, students will have
opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often associated with successful entrepreneurs.

Overall Curriculum Expectations

Strand 1: Enterprising People & Entrepreneurs
By the end of this course, students will:
OE1 Analyse the characteristics and contributions of enterprising people.
OE2 Compare the characteristics and contributions of various entrepreneurs.
OE3 Assess their own entrepreneurial and enterprising potential.

Strand 2: Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures

By the end of this course, students will:
OE4 Explain the importance of invention and innovation to venture creation.
OE5 Analyse various methods of generating ideas and identifying opportunities to satisfy needs and wants.
OE6 Generate realistic new ideas and identify possible opportunities for a school-based or student-run
business.
OE7 Conduct primary and secondary marketing research to evaluate the idea or opportunity for their proposed
venture.

Strand 3: The Benefits of a Venture Plan

By the end of this course, students will:
OE8 Assess the importance of having a venture plan.
OE9 Analyse the structure and content of a venture plan.
OE10 Explain how to evaluate and revise a venture plan.

Strand 4: Developing and Completing a Venture Plan for the Proposed

Business
By the end of this course, students will:
OE11 Analyse the resources required to run their chosen venture.
OE12 Complete the components of an effective production plan for their chosen venture.
OE13 Complete the components of an effective marketing plan for their chosen venture.
OE14 Complete the components of an effective financial plan for their chosen venture.
OE15 Produce, using appropriate software, a venture plan for their chosen venture.
Summative Assessment Tasks

Unit 2: Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs

Summative Expectations How Assessed Grade
Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Achieved
S1 Canadian Entrepreneur Profile OE1 – OE3 Written Report &
Presentation

Unit 3: Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures

Summative Expectations How Assessed Grade
Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Achieved
S CLA – Business Idea Proposal OE5 – OE7 Written Report
2 & Presentation

Unit 3: The Benefits of a Venture Plan

Summative Expectations How Assessed Grade
Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Achieved
S Unit Test – Benefits & Components OE8 – OE10 Open-Book Test
3 of a Venture Plan

Unit 4: Developing and Completing a Venture Plan

Summative Expectations How Assessed Grade
Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Achieved
S Business Plan OE11 – OE15 Written Report
4

Throughout Semester: Experiential Learning

Summative Expectations How Assessed Grade
Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Achieved
S Dragons Den Pitch Critiques OE2, OE4 Written Report
5
S Eyes on Entrepreneurs Profile OE1, OE2 Written Report
6

Note: The tasks listed above may change over the course of the semester to allow for teachers to respond to
evidence of student learning. Students will be notified in advance of any changes to the summative
assessment tasks.

30 % Final Summative Assessment Tasks

Summative Expectations How Assessed Weight in

Assignment/Evaluation Evaluated Course
Grade
1 Final Cumulative Test OE1 – OE10 Open-Book Test 20 %
2 Business Plan ‘Pitch’ OE11 – OE15 Individual 10 %
Presentation

Note: The tasks listed above may change over the course of the semester to allow for teachers to respond to
evidence of student learning. Students will be notified in advance of any changes to the final summative
tasks.

Core Texts: none

Additional Resources:
∼ Course information can be found on the Business Studies website; the website address is
ndssbiz.wikispaces.com
∼ Additional resources for BDI 3C will be made available on the shared drive of the school network,
under the folder BDI 3C – Entrepreneurship
EVALUATION OVERVIEW:

Unit ASSESSMENTS will take place throughout all units and will include quizzes,
assignments, and investigations. These assessments will provide feedback to the
students and teacher and enable students to increase mastery of the expectations. These
assessments will be mainly used to inform students and teachers of the progress of
student learning and will not be used in the determination of grades.

SUMMATIVE EVALUATIONS include all the major assessments which usually take place
at or near the end of an instructional unit, for example, unit tests, presentations and
projects. The summative evaluations constitute the term work for the course and will be
worth 70% of the final mark for the course. The mid-term mark will be derived mainly
from the summative assessments up until that point. As students progress through the
course, the term mark portion of the grade will represent the student’s most consistent
level of achievement.

Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a FINAL EVALUATION in the form of
one major project and culminating activities. The final evaluation will be administered
towards the end of the course. The final evaluation will be based on evaluation of
expectations from all strands and across the learning categories.

LEARNING SKILLS:

Learning skills are crucial to academic, career and personal success. Students will be
assessed continually on the learning skills:

 Works Independently (e.g. accepts responsibility for completing tasks, follows

instructions, completes assignments on time and with care, uses time effectively)
 Teamwork ( e.g. works willingly and cooperatively with others, is sensitive to the
needs of others, takes responsibility for sharing the work, shows respect for the
ideas and opinions of others)
 Organization (e.g. organizes work, creates a plan to complete tasks, demonstrates
ability to organize and manage information)
 Work Habits/Homework (e.g. puts forth consistent effort, completes homework
on time and with care, uses time effectively, perseveres with complex tasks that
require effort)
 Initiative (e.g. responds to challenges and takes risks, seeks out opportunities for
learning, identifies problems to solve, seeks additional information, generates
questions for inquiry)

HOMEWORK/LATE ASSIGNMENTS:

Students are expected to hand in assignments by the stated deadlines. If a student is

unable to meet the deadline for a specific unavoidable reason, he or she should contact
the teacher ahead of time to arrange either a later deadline, or an alternative assignment.

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