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Introducing Explorer Hop

Explorer Hop's Financial Literacy Expertise

Explorer Hop In the News

Why is Financial Literacy Important?

Girls Left Behind When it Comes to Money

🍎 Empowering Educators

🌏 Global Educator's Circle

Copyright and Responsible Use Notice for Educators

⚙️How to use this course

🍎Important Note to Educators & Future Releases

ℹ️ Frequently Asked Questions by Educators

Professional Activity (PA) Day Training For Educators

🎓 For Students. Explorer Hop = Your Success

Student Ambassador Program - Get Uni Ready

ℹ️ Frequently Asked Questions by Students

Ontario Course Calendar for students Earning Credit through Explorer Hop Academy

Welcome to Explorer Hop

Introduction to the course

Course Outline

Introduction to BEP2O

Unit Plan for Educators

Lesson Plans for Strand A

Business Leadership and Project Management (2025-2026 Edition)*

Glossary of Business Leadership Terms

🎤 Discussion: TADLIT & Transactional Leadership

🎮 Game Drag and Drop TADLIT

👥 Classroom Activity: “The Classroom Company – Work for Points!”

🎤 Discussion: Authoritarian Leadership

🎮 Game: Flip the card. Different Leadership Styles

👥 Classroom Activity: “The Boss Battle!” – Authoritarian vs. Transactional Leadership

🎤 Discussion: Democratic Leadership

🎮Game: Guess leadership style of these business leaders

📝 Business Leadership and Project Management Worksheet 1

🎮 Business Leadership and Project Management

🎤 Discussion: Laissez-Faire Leadership

🎮 Game: Drag and Drop Leadership Styles

📝 Business Leadership and Project Management Worksheet 2

🎤 Discussion: Business Leadership Styles

🎯 Comparing Business Leadership Styles

📝 Business Leadership and Project Management Worksheet 3

🎤 Discussion: The Project Management Process

🎤 Discussion: Task and Project Evaluation

🎯 Project Management Process

🎯 Task and Project Evaluation

🎮Game: Order Project Management Process in correct order

🏗️ Project: Leadership as a CEO of a Fast Food Restaurant

Business Technologies (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Internet of Things

🎯 Digital Technologies in Business

🎤 Discussion: How AI impacts Customer Service

🎯 AI in Customer Service

🎮 Game: Ethical Issues in AI

🎮 Game: Real world uses of Blockchain

🎮 Game: Build your own Blockchain

🎤 Discussion: Analyzing AR/VR in our lives

🎮 Game: Uses of Virtual Reality

📝 Business Technologies Worksheet 1

🎤 Discussion: Selecting and Using Appropriate Tools

🎮 Game: Match Business Tasks to appropriate Technology

🎯 Selecting and Using Appropriate Tools

📝 Business Technologies Worksheet 2

🎤 Discussion: Benefits, Limitations, Costs and Risks of Business Technologies

📝 Business Technologies Worksheet 3

🎯 Benefits, Limitations, Costs and Risks

🎤 Discussion: Costs and Limitations

🏗️ Project: Managing a Major Systems Upgrade Project

🎮 Business Tech Match Game

Connections, Applications and Careers (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

🎯 Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

🎤 Discussion: Business Skills and Financial Literacy

🎯 Business Skills and Financial Literacy

🎯 Business Skills and Career Application

🎤 Discussion: Contributions of Entrepreneurs

📝 Connections, Applications and Careers Worksheet 1

🎤 Discussion: Business Portfolios and Entrepreneurial Growth

📝 Connections, Applications and Careers Worksheet 2

🎯 Business Portfolio and Entrepreneurial Growth

🏗️ Project: Cleaning the Oceans

🎮 Connections, Applications, and Careers

Contributions of Entrepreneurs (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Social, Environmental, Economic, and Ethical Impacts

🎮 Game: Companies that help the Environment

🏗️ Project: Entrepreneurial Impacts in Action

🎤 Discussion: The Entrepreneurial Process and Mindset

🎮 Game: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

🏗️ Project: Entrepreneurial Process & Mindset

🎤 Discussion: Entrepreneurial Ventures and Social Responsibility

🎮 Game: How Mastercard brings Social and Economic change in Africa

🎯 Entrepreneurial Ventures and Social Responsibility

🎤 Discussion: Entrepreneurship and its Contributions to Community Growth

📝 Contributions of Entrepreneurs Worksheet 1

🎯 Contributions and Impacts of Entrepreneurs

🎤 Discussion: Funding for Startups

🎯 Entrepreneurial Challenges and Supports

📝 Contributions of Entrepreneurs Worksheet 2

🎤 Discussion: How Entrepreneurs Address Ethical Issues

🏗️ Project: Start your own Business

🎮 Game: Drag and Drop Contributions of Entrepreneurs

🍎 Educator Feedback + Content Request

🎯 Strand A Unit Test

🎮 Contributions of Entrepreneurs

Strand A: Business Leadership, Project Management, and Connections | 25 Lessons = 31.25...

Lesson Plans for Strand B

Market Forces (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Consumer Behaviour and Business Response

Video: Demand & Supply

🎯 Consumer Behaviour and Business Response

🎤 Discussion: Supply and Demand

🎮 Demand and Supply in the real world

🎮 Demand and Supply in graphs

🎤 Discussion: Pricing Strategies

👥 Group Activity: Pricing Strategies

🎤 Discussion: How Do Trends Affect Consumer Behaviour?

👥 Group Activity: Trends Affecting Consumer Behaviour

🎤 Discussion: Government and Market Intervention

👥 Group Activity: Understanding Government and Market Intervention

🎤 Discussion: How market forces impact goods and services

🎯 Market Forces and Economic Cycles

🎯 Market Forces and Their Impacts on Canadian Groups

🏗️ Project: How market forces impact your business

🎮 Market Forces

The Competitive Market Environment in Canada (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Types of Competition

Video: Canada's International Competitiveness

🎯 Market Structures and Business Activities in Canada

🎯 Government and Non-Governmental Interventions in Market Failures

🎯 Trade Relationships and their Impacts on Canadian Markets and Businesses

🎤 Discussion: Specific Examples of Competition in Canada

👥 Group Activity: Understanding Competition in Canada

🎤 Discussion: Competitive Strategies

👥 Group Activity: Competitive Strategies

🎤 Discussion: Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

👥 Group Activity: Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

🎤 Discussion: Ethics, Sustainability and the Competitive Edge

👥 Group Activity: Ethics and Sustainability

🎤 Discussion: Canadian Market Structure

Stock market crash 2008

🏗️ Project: Role of Fed in the 2008 Market Crash

🎮 The Competitive Market Environment in Canada

Business in Canada (2025 -2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Types of Business Structures

🎯 Social and Environmental Responsibility in Canadian Businesses

🎤 Discussion: Types of Businesses in Canada

🎯 Types of Businesses in Canada and Their Economic Role

🎤 Discussion: The Role of Business in the Canadian Economy

👥 Group Activity: Supporting Local Economies

🎤 Discussion: Ownership Structures in Canada

👥 Group Activity: Ownership Structures

🎤 Discussion: Indigenous, Local, and Social Enterprise

🎯 Collaboration with Indigenous Communities and Reconciliation

🎤 Discussion: Business Ethics, Responsibility and Regulation

🏗️ Project: Canada's role in the Global Economy

🎮 Canadian Business Dash

Unit Test Strand B

Strand B: Economic Foundations | 18 Lessons = 22.5 hours of learning

Lesson Plans - Strand C

The Entrepreneurial Mindset Designing, Refining, and Pitching an Idea (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤Discussion: Turning Lived Experiences into Business Ideas

🎯 The Entrepreneurial Mindset and Leveraging Lived Experiences

👥 Group Activity: Identify a Business through Lived Experiences

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 1

🎤Discussion: The Steps to Designing and Problem Solving

🎯 Using a Problem-Solving Process to Assess and Refine Entrepreneurial Ideas

🏗️ Project: Innovate Like a Canadian Entrepreneur

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 2

🎤Discussion: Brainstorming Techniques

👥 Group Activity: Identifying a Market Need through Research

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 3

🎤Discussion: Product Refinement Process

🎯 Using the Design Process to Meet Market Needs and Develop Prototypes

👥 Group Activity: Product Refinement

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 4

🎤Discussion: Creating your Pitch

🏗️ Mini project: Build a Quick Prototype - Learning About MVP

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 5

🎤Discussion: How Do You Receive and Implement Feedback?

🎯 Using the Pitch Process to Communicate Entrepreneurial Ideas

🏗️ Project: Feedback in Action

➡️ Exit Ticket - The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Part 6

🎮 The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea (2025-2026 Edition) *

🎤Discussion: Developing Evaluation Criteria

🎯 Developing Criteria to Evaluate Entrepreneurial Ideas

👥 Group Activity: Developing Evaluation Criteria in Business

➡️ Exit Ticket - Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea - Part 1

🎤Discussion: Considering Feasibility

🎯 Generating and Building on New Ideas for Market Needs

🏗️ Mini Project: What is an Entrepreneur? Brainstorming and SCAMPER Techniques

➡️ Exit Ticket - Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea - Part 2

🎤Discussion: How to Compare Ideas By Ranking Them

👥 Group Activity: Product Considerations

➡️ Exit Ticket - Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea - Part 3

🎤Discussion: Prototypes

👥 Group Activity: Creating a Prototype Using a Storyboard

➡️ Exit Ticket - Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea - Part 4

🎤Discussion: Intellectual Property

👥 Group Activity: Protecting Intellectual Property

➡️ Exit Ticket - Designing an Entrepreneurial Idea - Part 5

🎤Discussion: Beta Testing

Strand C : Entrepreneurship: From Mindset to Venture | 24 Lessons = 30 hours of learning

BEP2O— NEW REVISED VERSION (2025-2026 EDITION)This comprehensive bundle includes over 95 lessons covering 120 hours of instruction and everything you need to confidently learn the content in a fun way, and for educators, to also teach the BEP2O course. Developed by educational experts, for teachers and students, our detailed lesson plans provide clear, step-by-step guidance to make your teaching experience smooth and effective while our lessons and gamification allows students to master the information effectively.What’s Included - see videos above for each activity: Detailed Lesson Plans in Ontario Ministry of Education format that map the lesson to the Curriculum expectations, and Lesson Goals (see image above)Multiple lessons per unit with corresponding activities. ✅Over 75 Comprehensive Lesson Plans with every lesson featuring ✅Minds On, ✅Action, ✅Consolidation, and Exit Tickets ✅Engaging and fun Consolidation activities designed to reinforce learning and keep students motivated ✅42 Projects for in-class work or homework ✅38 classroom activities for group work ✅Over 420 quiz questions - autocorrected with student subscription ✅14 worksheets - autocorrected with student subscription ✅4 Unit Tests with over 190 questions - autocorrected with student subscription ✅Follow-up questions for small-group and whole-class discussions ✅High-quality, concise educational material for each concept — perfect for keeping students engaged without overwhelming them ✅ Short quizzes for quick assessments of student understanding ✅ In-class Project activities for students to complete and submit ✅ Multiple worksheets per unit for homework, in-class activities, or assessmentsOur lesson plans are designed to fit the desired Ontario workshop model:Instructional Module (IM): Introduce the concept through slides and instructionsPractice: Students work independently or in small groupsDiscussion: Whole-class review and reinforcement of learningThe clear, easy-to-follow directions make this bundle ideal for regular classrooms and supply teachers alike. Planning and prep work are completely done for you, so you can focus on teaching and supporting your students.Enhance your teaching experience with a Student Subscription, making assessment simple and stress-free!Unlock autograding and easy assessment tracking, saving you time and effort.Automatically grade quizzes and assignments, Monitor student progress effortlessly,Provide timely feedback

BEP2O Educator Edition — Launching and Leading a Business: Ontario curriculum-aligned bundle with 75+ lessons (120 hours), activities, projects, worksheets, quizzes, discussions, tests, and ready-to-use Minds On–Action–Consolidation–Exit Ticket lessons.

BEP20 - Launching and Leading a Business Ontario

BEP20 - Launching and Leading a Business Ontario

Hasina Lookman

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