Thursday, August 26, 2010

Requirements for Performance Task Products and Presentation

Individual

I&E Promotional Brochure (hardcopy)

Deadline: Thurs, 2 Sept 2010

1] Definition of I&E

2] Why should schools promote I&E

3] How has it been useful to students

4] Relevant images

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Group Project

Deadline: Term 4 Week 1, I&E Lesson

1] Group presentation slides (8-12) for your product range (business proposal slides must include theme+reasons, taglines, description and selling point of products; images of prototypes/ sketches)


2] Mock-up and final sketches of products: you will be asked to modify your proposed products if found unsuitable/ too conventional. Try SCAMPER and Shape Borrowing.


3] Decide which items are to be made into physical prototype ( at least half your products), which will remain as sketches (Google Sketch, hardcopy)


4] Make sure the tagline is on all products.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010

TERM 3 Performance Task

Hi 109,

Please refer to the images below for details of the Performance Task. You may also visit the I&E Google Site for other information. For queries, pls post them in the 'Comments' column. Only questions posed in a polite manner will be entertained.
Have a restful and fruitful break! Keep in touch via the blogs!








TERM 3 Performance Task









Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Traits of Entrepreneurs/ Features of Entrepreneurship

I& E Class Activity 22 July 2010

Mission 1

Research on one of the following people based on your pair-allocation. Why are they considered Social Entrepreneurs?

* Make a 4-6 slide Keynote Presentation to share with your class in the 2nd hour:


http://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur


  • Jiale + Stacey: Vinoba Bhave (India): Founder and leader of the Land Gift Movement, he caused the redistribution of more than 7,000,000 acres of land to aid India's untouchables and landless.
  • Niklaus + Seeto + Johanan : Dr. Maria Montessori (Italy): Developed the Montessori approach to early childhood education.
  • Ben + Yuchong: Florence Nightingale (U.K.): Founder of modern nursing, she established the first school for nurses and fought to improve hospital conditions.
  • Min Suk + Cherin: Margaret Sanger (U.S.): Founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she led the movement for family planning efforts around the world.
  • Christopher + Hardy: John Muir (U.S.): Naturalist and conservationist, he established the National Park System and helped found The Sierra Club.

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Mission 2

Why are the following ventures considered “Social Entrepreneurship”? Make a printable poster (*2 to 3 A4 Pages) . Deposit your posters in the submit folder. Project them on the screen to share with your class in the 2nd hour.


Junhong + Jonan - http://www.worldtoilet.org/aboutus3.asp

Junwei + Naveena - http://give.sg/

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Mission 3: Poster Sharing

What is entrepreneurship and what kind of a person qualifies to be one? Extract the main ideas from Bill Green’s Video Sharing:


[A] Rayner + Tim; [B] Siyuan + Preston

http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=6222


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Mission 4: * Make a 4-6 slide Keynote Presentation to share with your class in the 2nd hour:

Who are the following businessmen? Why are they also considered entrepreneurs? What do they attribute their success to?


Michelle + Victor

Interview on “Charles and Keith”:

http://www.soe.org.sg/files/22.htm


Gwen + Davina

Interview with Mr Harish Nim:

http://www.soe.org.sg/files/o_interview.php?sid=329&a=&c=&year=2004&n=87