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Welcome to Explorer Hop

Introduction to the course

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Introduction to the Course

Unit Plan for Educators

Lesson Plans - Strand A

Introduction: Characteristics & Contributions of an Enterprising Person

🎤 Discussion: What Makes an Enterprising Person?

🏗️Project: Develop a Profile of an Enterprising Person

🎯 Quiz: What Makes an Enterprising Person?

Identify Opportunities for Students to Engage in Enterprising Activities (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How Can Students Become Enterprising People?

👥 Classroom Activity: “Spot the Opportunity” – Exploring Enterprising Activities for Students

Personal Benefits of Being an Enterprising Person (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Personal Benefits of Being an Enterprising Person?

🏗️ Analyse the Personal Benefits of being an Enterprising Person

🎯 Quiz: Personal Benefits of Being an Enterprising Person

How can you use and develop your skills? (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How Can Enterprising People Use Their Skills in an Entrepreneurial Way?

👥 Classroom Activity: “Building Our Skills” – Developing Entrepreneurial Skills Together

Who is an Entrepreneur? (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What Would a Profile of an Entrepreneur Look Like?

🏗️ Project: What Makes an Entrepreneur

Rapid Reactions - The Enterprising Person Game

Difference between an Entrepreneur and Enterprising Person (2025-2026 Edition) *

🎤 Discussion: What are the Key Differences Between an Entrepreneur and an Enterprising Person?

🏗️ Project: Entrepreneur vs. Enterprising Person – What's the Difference?

🎯 Quiz: Entrepreneur vs. Enterprising Person – What's the Difference?

🎮 Enterprising vs. Entrepreneur

Characteristics & Behaviours of a Successful Entrepreneur (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Characteristics that Successful Entrepreneurs Need

👥 Classroom Activity: “Why Entrepreneurs Need a Balance of Characteristics”

🎤 Discussion: Is Empathy Needed for a Good Entrepreneur?

👥 Classroom Activity: “Rank the Traits” – What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur?

🎯 Quiz: Entrepreneurial Traits

Traits that Entrepreneurs Need (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Traits that Entrepreneurs Need

🏗️ Project: What Does It Take? – Traits & Behaviours of an Entrepreneur

Identify the Skills Entrepreneurs Need (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are Crucial Entrepreneurial Skills?

👥 Classroom Activity: “Which Skill Saves the Day?” – Comparing Key Entrepreneurial Skills & Reflection

🎯 Quiz: Skills Entrepreneurs Need

📝Worksheet: Characteristics and Contributions of an Entrepreneur

🎮 Characteristics and Behaviours of a Successful Entrepreneur

Challenges and Opportunities faced by Age (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What Are Major Issues for Younger Entrepreneurs Compared to Older Entrepreneurs?

👥 Classroom Activity: “Challenges Facing Young Entrepreneurs — Your Solutions”

🎯 Quiz: Challenges for Older and Younger Entrepreneurs

🎮 Challenges Faced by Age

Why ethics are important for a business (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Major Principles of Business Ethics?

🏗️ Project: “Ethics & Impact: Why Businesses Must Do the Right Thing

🎯 Quiz: Ethics in Businesses

Impact of Local Entrepreneurs on the Community (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Why are Local Entrepreneurs Important for their Communities?

🏗️Project: Local Legends: How Entrepreneurs in Your Community Make a Difference

Changes brought about by Entrepreneurs (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How Can an Entrepreneur Bring About Change?

🎤 Discussion: Real World Examples of Changes Brought About by Entrepreneurs

👥 Classroom Activity: “Entrepreneurs Who Changed Our Lives”

How to be a good CEO (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Qualities of a Good CEO?

👥 Classroom Activity: “What Makes a Good CEO?”

🎯 Quiz: How to be a Good CEO

Self- Assessment

Unit Test: Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs

Strand A: Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs | 19 Lessons = 23 hours and 45 mins.of learning

Lesson Plans - Strand B

Invention (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Why are Inventions Important for Business?

🏗️ Project: Inventions

🎯 Quiz: Inventions

Velcro (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of Velcro as an Invention

👥 Group Assignment: Inventions

🎯 Quiz: Velcro

Internet (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of the Internet as an Invention

🏗️ Project: The Internet

🎯 Quiz: Internet

Basketball (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of Basketball as an Invention

👥 Group Assignment: Basketball

🎯 Quiz: Basketball

Innovation (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Why are Innovations Important for Business?

🏗️ Project: Innovation

🎯 Quiz: Innovation

Cellphones (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of Cell Phones as an Innovation

👥 Group Assignment: Cell Phones

🎯 Quiz: Cellphones

Coloured Ketchup (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of Coloured Ketchup as an Innovation

👥 Group Assignment: Coloured Ketchup

🎯 Quiz: Coloured Ketchup

Plasma Screen Televisions (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Importance of Plasma Screen Televisions as an Innovation

🏗️ Project: Plasma Screen TVs

👥 Group Activity: Distinguish between Invention and Innovation

📝Worksheet: Innovation vs Invention

Canadian Inventions and Innovations (2025-2026 Editions)*

🎤 Discussion: Significant Canadian Inventions and Innovations

🏗️ Project: Canadian Inventions and Innovations

🏗️ Project: Describe the Needs and Wants that have been Satisfied by Canadian Inventions and Innovations

🎯 Quiz: Inventions vs. Innovations

🎮 Inventors Game

Canadian Companies (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Significance of Canadian Companies in Various Sectors

Canadian Ventures (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: The Roots of Different Canadian Ventures

🏗️ Project: Describe how Canadian Entrepreneurs have used Inventions and/or Innovations to Start new Ventures

👥 Group Activity: Explain how new Ventures have been Developed in Response to Consumer Needs or Wants

🎯 Quiz: Canadian Ventures and Opportunities

🎮 Canadian Ventures

Opportunities vs Ideas (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Key Differences Between an Opportunity and an Idea?

🏗️ Project: Distinguish between an Idea and an Opportunity

👥 Group Activity: Describe how Similar Needs and Wants have been Satisfied in Different Ways

Apply Creative Thinking Strategies (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How Can You Use Creative Thinking in Different Business Related Scenarios?

🏗️ Project: Creative Thinking Strategies

🏗️ Project: Analyse, using a Variety of Sources, Current Economic Trends and Social Trends in order to Generate Ideas for new Ventures

👥 Group Activity: Use a Variety of Sources To Identify Potential Opportunities for new Ventures in the School or the Community

🎯 Quiz: Creative Thinking Strategies

Creating Mind Maps (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What is the Purpose of Creating Mind Maps?

🏗️ Project: Creating Mind Maps to solve a need in your school or community

Creating Effective Brainstorming Sessions (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What is the Key to Proper Brainstorming?

👥 Group Activity: Hold a Brainstorming Session

🎯 Quiz: Effective Brainstorming

Decision Making Model (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Steps to Decision Making?

🏗️ Project: Apply a Decision-Making Model to Select a Feasible Idea for a new Good or Service that can Become the Basis for a Venture Pla...

🎯 Quiz: Decision Making Model

📝Worksheet: Generating Ideas and Identifying Opportunities

Evaluating an Idea or Opportunity for a Venture (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How Do You Know if a Business Venture is Feasible?

👥 Group Activity: Use Methods of Marketing Research to Determine whether Demand Exists for the Proposed Good or Service

👥 Group Activity: Use Appropriate Sources to Identify the Characteristics of a Potential Target Market for the Proposed Good or Service

Services Required for the Proposed Venture (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Services Required for a Proposed Business Venture

🏗️ Project: Identify the Services Required for the Proposed Venture and Assess their Potential Impact on the Venture

Evaluate the Opportunity or Idea for their Proposed Venture (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Why is it Important to Evaluate a Proposed Business Venture?

👥 Group Activity: Evaluate the Opportunity or Idea for Proposed Venture to Determine its Viability

🎯 Quiz: Evaluating a Venture or Opportunity

🎮 Ideas Vs. Opportunities

SWOT Analysis (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Elements of a SWOT Analysis

👥 Group Activity: SWOT Analysis

SWOT Continued (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis

🏗️ Project: How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis

SWOT Lyft (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: Conduct a SWOT Analysis on Lyft

🏗️ Project: SWOT Analysis of your venture

🏗️ Project: SWOT Analysis on Lyft

Porter Five Forces (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are Porter's Five Forces?

👥 Group Activity: Porter's Five Forces

The Forces in Porter’s Five Forces - Part 1 (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What is the Importance of Porter's Five Forces?

👥 Group Activity: Porter's Five Forces Continued

The Forces in Porter’s Five Forces - Part 2 (2025-2026 Edition)*

Strand B: Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures | 31 Lessons = 38 hours and 45 mins. of learning

Lesson Plans - Strand C

Importance of a Venture Plan (2025-2026 Edition)*

🏗️ Project: “Roots Product Pitch: Venture Plan in 30 Minutes”

🎯 Quiz: How to Create a Venture Plan

🎤 Discussion: How Does a Profit and Loss Statement Help in a Financial Plan?

🏗️ Project: “Roots Product Pitch: Venture Plan in 30 Minutes - Part 2”

📝Worksheet: The Importance of having a Venture Plan

🎮 Importance of a Venture Plan

Parts of a Venture Plan (2025-2026 Edition)*

🎤 Discussion: What are the Components of a Venture Plan?

🏗️ Project: “Know Your Venture: Company Overview & Funding Pitch”

🎯 Quiz: Individual Components of a Venture Plan

🎤 Discussion: How are KPIs Helpful in Venture Plans?

🏗️ Project: Marketing Plan Development for Urban Earthwear

🎯 Quiz: KPIs in Venture Plans

🎤 Discussion: Why Does a Business Need an Operations Plan?

🏗️ Project: Can you deliver milk by 8am?

Strand C: The Benefits of a Venture Plan | 15 Lessons = 18 hours and 45 mins. of learning

BDI3C- NEW REVISED VERSION (2025-2026 EDITION)Course Code: BDI3CCourse Type: College PreparationFormat: Online School CoursePrerequisite: N/ACourse Format: Online, Learn at your own pace, built-in supports and prompts, Gamified Learning with Pop Quizzes, Online Exams, Auto-grading, Current Grade Displayed What will you learn?In this course, we will take you through a multitude of key subject matters surrounding entrepreneurship, allowing you to become knowledgeable about and get comfortable with creating new ventures and setting up your own business. The aim of this course is to help you put together a business plan. You acquire the skills and knowledge of entrepreneurs either by holding events and businesses or by completing an online venture plan. You will use these skills creatively from scratch from coming up with business ideas and putting together a comprehensive plan. This comprehensive bundle includes over 80 lessons covering 110 hours of instruction and everything you need to confidently learn and also for educators, to teach the BDI3C 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: 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 80 Comprehensive Lesson Plans with every lesson featuring1) Minds On, 2) Action, 3) Consolidation, and 4) Exit Tickets 5) Engaging and fun Consolidation activities designed to reinforce learning and keep students motivated ✅42 Projects for in-class work or homework ✅Over 460 quiz questions - autocorrected with student subscription ✅12 worksheets - autocorrected with student subscription ✅4 Unit Tests with over 190 questions - autocorrected with student subscription ✅Follow-up questions ✅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 instructions ✅Practice: Students work independently or in small groups ✅Discussion: 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.FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) — BDI3C EDUCATOR EDITIONLESSON PLANS &amp; COURSE CONTENTS:Q: How many lessons are included in this bundle?A: The bundle includes over 80 lessons covering approximately 110 hours of instruction. Please see sample Lesson Plans and Activities in the images and videos above. Q: What components are included in each lesson?A: Each lesson features Minds On, Action, Consolidation, and Exit Tickets, along with follow-up projects, group activities, worksheets and quizzes. Q: Are the lesson plans easy to follow?A: Yes! The lesson plans are created by educational experts for teachers and include detailed, step-by-step instructions suitable for all educators, including supply teachers. Please click on the images above to see an example of a lesson plan. Q: What is the layout of each lesson plan?Check out the video of the lesson plan in the images above. The layout of each lesson is as follows:✅ Minds-On - 10 minutes per lesson: A discussion activity to get students’ minds geared up. One per lesson. ✅ Action - 25 minutes per lesson: Easy to understand material in slide deck format - some of the longer ones are broken up into easy to follow parts. One part lesson.✅ Consolidation - 30 minutes per lesson: Range of activities including Projects, Quizzes, and Worksheets. One to four per lesson✅ Exit Ticket - 10 minutes per lesson: 2-4 questions curated for the lesson to confirm student understanding. One per lesson.✅ Unit Tests and Final Exam - 75 minutes each: Testing knowledge of course content to ensure students are on track and understanding materialQ: How are consolidation activities designed?A: Consolidation activities are engaging and fun, designed to reinforce key concepts while keeping students motivated and involved. Please see the images above for an idea of each type of our consolidation activities (projects, classroom group activities, quizzes, worksheets etc). Q: Are the slides included suitable for all learners?A: Yes. The slides are concise and clear, helping students grasp concepts without feeling overwhelmed. Students with a student subscription can re-visit them as many times as needed. SHARING / DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS:Q: Can I print or distribute the materials?A: No. All materials are copyrighted and cannot be printed, copied, or distributed without permission. Materials can only be presented on screen during class unless a Student Subscription is purchased. We strongly recommend a student subscription.Q: What is your refund policy?A: Due to the digital nature of the product, we do not provide refunds. Thank you for understanding.

BDI3C Entrepreneurship Educator Edition: Ontario College-preparation bundle with 80+ lessons (110 hours), projects, worksheets, quizzes, tests, and assessments covering entrepreneurship, business plans, and venture management. Online, self-paced.

BDI3C - Entrepreneurship: The Venture Grade 11  Ontario

BDI3C - Entrepreneurship: The Venture Grade 11 Ontario

Hasina Lookman

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