• No one ever calls shotgun when they are boading a school bus.
  • If I live to be 100, my 100th birthday will fall on a Saturday. That's a pretty good incentive to stay alive 70 more years.
  • I'm pretty sure at some point I will be considered too old to be drinking Mountain Dew. I'm not sure what I'll drink when that day comes.

Computer Applications Activity: Concert Poster

Nearly all teens are into tunes (some so much that they stay tethered to their iPod 24/7). With this in mind, I like to work a few music-related activities into Computer Applications.

Computer Applications Activity: Keyboarding Basketball

To break the monotony of typing out “www sss xxx ooo lll …” over and over, I like to incorporate Keyboarding Basketball, a simple game that gets the students out of their seats during timed typing exercises.

Economics Lesson: Fun with Economic Systems & Goals

Flip to the front of nearly any high school Economics textbook and you are sure to find a discussion of Economic Systems and Economic Goals.

When my classes discuss these topics (see PowerPoint notes), I like to incorporate a few simple activities.

Marketing Lesson: Target Market People Activity

In this activity, students get hands-on with target markets by creating a fictional person that is representative of a given target market.

Marketing Lesson: An “Eggcellent” Distribution Channel Activity

This hands-on marketing activity puts a fun spin on distribution channels by requiring students to move a product from point A to point B while navigating a classroom obstacle course.

Economics Lesson Plan: Lego Assembly Line Activity

Unless you are teaching an AP Economics class, you probably aren’t going to get a lot of students to read Adam Smith.

Thankfully, there are ways that you can introduce some of the important concepts from Classical Economics without going right to the source.

Personal Finance Lesson: Name Brands vs. Private Label Taste Test

From an early age, we as consumers have been conditioned by the likes of Chef Boyardee and Chester Cheetah to reach for their products when grocery shopping. We assume that we choose name brands, like Cheetos, over their generic counterparts because the name brands are of higher quality. But is this always the case?

Marketing Lesson: Kellogg’s Cereal Creation Activity

In this hands-on activity, students develop a new cereal concept for Kellogg’s. The activity starts with students reading a short case about Kellog’s slumping cereal sales (see link below). Then students divide up into groups and conduct market research using surveys or focus groups.

Free (Business) Lesson Plans! No Purchase Necessary!

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.

Lessons from the Bush Leagues: Applying the Minor League Mindset to High School Athletics (Part II)

If the student-athletes at your school are playing in front of more empty seats than filled ones, maybe it is time to get creative.