Free (Business) Lesson Plans! No Purchase Necessary!
In the preface to his classic novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut wrote “I think I am trying to clear my head of all the junk in there…I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.” To this end, he goes on to say that he is purging all the characters from his prior novels. So it goes.
In looking through my “teacher stuff” the past few weeks, I realized that my archives could use a Vonnegutian purging. In the five years I have been teaching, I have instructed thirteen different courses. The result of all this “teaching” is a tangled web of files that exist (often times in duplicate and triplicate) somewhere on my Moodle website, my two home computers, my school computer, and my three jump drives.
To give you an idea of the clutter, I have 27 files labeled “Chapter 9.” That’s it. “Chapter 9.” No other description. Of these files, 14 are Word documents, 7 are PowerPoint files, and the remaining 6 are a mix of images, sound files, and test bank questions.
This is just one example. Most of the texts I use have far more than 9 chapters.
So, I have decided to clean house. My first thought was to take the good stuff I have and sell it on www.teacherspayteachers.com. But, then I thought ‘what if no one buys my lessons?’ I can take a kid sleeping through class, but to be universally panned in a free market? I don’t know if I can handle that kind of rejection.
Instead, I am throwing the doors open to my archive. Every lesson/activity/unit that I use in class that works reasonably well (or has the potential to work well in the capable hands of someone else) will be posted on my website under the “lesson plans” link. And you can have them. All for the low price of free.
Don’t teach Business, or Business-related topics? You will have to get your free lessons somewhere else.
Moodle Screenshot from my 2009-2010 Accounting class at SCHS
On a side note, I know a lot of teachers are curious about Moodle. I have been using Moodle in my classroom for 4 years now, and I love it. In the future, I hope to do a few posts about how to integrate Moodle into the classroom. In the meantime, here is a link to one of my courses for Accounting. Click on Login as Guest to enter.
If you have any questions about a lesson, or would like to suggest a topic, drop me a comment or an e-mail at travis@travisrmartin.com
Thanks!
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