CLASS SYLLABUS

WELCOME TO Entrepreneurship IC IB
Teacher: Miss Lay Wah Carolina Ching
Email: carolina.ching@nuevasemilla.com.ec
Blog for the class: http://uensent1.blogspot.com/
CLASS FOUNDATION
-IB Profile
Inquirers
Caring
Communicators
Reflective

Risk Taker
Thinker
Knowledgeable
Open Minded

Principled
Balanced

-Approaches to Learning
1. Thinking skills
2. Communication skills
3. Social Skills
4. Self Management Skills
5. Research skills
-Approached to Teaching
1. Inquiry
2. Conceptual understanding
3. Local and social context
4. Differentiated
5. Collaboration
6. Assessment
-The class will be taught with content, context and concepts.

Content: theories, techniques

Context: Examples and Applications
Concept: Culture, Change, Innovation, Strategy, Ethics, Globalization
GRADING:
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HOMEWORKS
INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION
GROUP WORK
QUIZZES
SUMATIVA (APORTE)

20%
20%
20%
20%
20%

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASS CONTENT:

QUIMESTER 1
BLOCK

Management and organization

of the Business Enterprise
Understand the management
EDUCATIONAL Understand entrepreneurship
and organization of the business
OBJECTIVE
and business ownership
enterprise
-Explain the importance of
setting goals and formulating
strategies as the starting points
-Define small business and
of effective management its importance -Explain
Discuss the elements that
entreprerneurship and
influence a firm's organizational
describe its characteristics structure -Explain specialization
Describe business plan and
and departamentalization. SKILL WITH
the start up decisions Explain the basic forms of
PERFOMANCE Explain the main reasosns
organizational structure and the
CRITERIA
why new businesses start
distribution of authority. ups are increasing - Explain
Describe the four activities that
solepropietorship,
constitute the management
partnerships, corporations
process -Identify types of
advantages and
managers by level and area. disadvantages
Describe the development and
explain the importance of
corporate culture.
What is a small business
Setting goals and formulating
Entrepreneurship
strategy
Starting and operating the
The management Process
small business
What is a organizational
Franchising and
CONTENT
structure?
Solepropietorship
Decision making hierarchy
Partnerships and
Types of managers
Corporations
Management and the corporate
Success and Failure in Small
culture
Business
UNIT TITLE

Entrepreneurship and
Business Ownership

3
Areas of management 1
Understand the effect of
Operations, Money, Accounting
and Finance in the enterprise

-Explain the operation process

and the difference between
services and manufacturing. Describe the Operations
planning and control elements Define money and identify the
functions of it. -Explain what is
accounting and its use in
business. -Identify the role of
financial statemetns and the
tools in Accounting.

Operations 1
Operations 2
Money and Banking
Accounting and Finance 1
Accounting and Finance 2

QUIMESTER 2
BLOCK

UNIT TITLE

Areas of management 2

The global context of business

Business Ethics and

Responsability

EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVE

Understand the effect of

Marketing, Human Resources
and Information technologies
in Business

Understand the global context

of business

Conduct BusIness ethically

and responsibly

-Define human Resources and

the taks -Explain the role of
motivation and offer
alternatives to rise it among
employees -Explain what is
SKILL WITH
marketing and the elements of
PERFOMANCE
marketing mix -Define pricing,
CRITERIA
distribution and promotion in a
business case. -Define
information systems and its
impact in types. -Explain
databses and telecomunication.

CONTENT

Human Resources 1
Human Resources 2
Marketing 1
Marketing 2
Information Technology 1
Information Technology 2

-Discuss the rise of

international business and
describe the major world
marketplaces. - Explain
differnces in competitive
advantage, import and exports.
-Discuss factors involved in
deciding business
internationally. -Describe how
social, cultural, economic,
legal and political differences
among nations affect the
international business.
The Rise of International
Business 1
The Rise of International
Business 2
International Business
Management
Barriers to International Trade

-Explain why ethics are

important in the workplace Assess ethical behaviour and
practices - Show the concept of
ethics apply to the stakeholder
-Explain the business the
responsability towards the
environment, customers,
employees, investors. -Explain
how issues of social
responsability and ethics affect
small businesses.
Ethics in the workplace 1
Ethics in the workplace 2
Social Responsability
Areas of Social Responsability
Implementing Social
Responsability programs

BLOCK

Myths and Legends Cinematographics

Research, document and
analyze myth and legends,
in the close surroundings
EDUCATIONAL
and in visual artistics
OBJECTIVE
representations and
cinematographic to create a
character and mythical story.
-Report through pictures
gestures that are found in
their surroundings -Write at
SKILL WITH
least two myths after
PERFOMANCE
academical research from
CRITERIA
different sources. -Describe
the values and symbols of a
character in a piece of art.
-Myths and Legends in
Ecuador -Communication:
Verbal and NonVerbal Elements of film (image,
CONTENT
time, movement, sound and
lighting) -Principal chacters,
symbols, and message. Aesthetic value. Mthological character.
UNIT TITLE

Movements - Dance

Microuniverse - Theather

Understand, analyze and

interpret physical movements
and movements in dance to
create and advertise a Musical
piece that shows personal and
group perspective of a current
school topic.

Analyze, critize and create

abstract images based on
science to develop original
appreciations about oneself and
the world.

-Research and reproduce with

-Argue the effect of everyday
pictures or drawings scientifical
listening environment in moods
images of the microunvierse. -Improvise a dance from varied
Transfer feelings to visual
rhythms and sounds -Participate
images, movements or sounds
in the creation of a musical
using microuniverse as the
piece on stage.
inspiration.

-Dance history and origins Dance Tradition -Coreography Elements of dance -Dance
attires and their contribution to
dance performance.

Definition of microuniverse abstract and figurative art Microscopic images -Theather

history

ARTS CLASS CONTENT:

QUIMESTER 1
QUIMESTER 2
BLOCK
UNIT TITLE

EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVE

SKILL WITH
PERFOMANCE
CRITERIA

CONTENT

My surroundings and me Comic

Reflect about the process of
Document the relationships
life and death through cultural
with the surroundings and
ceremonies, through the
reflect about them to create a
creation of stage works and
comic that portrays cultural
building the cultural values.
values
-Reflect about its personal
-Compare in a short essay the values of love, freedom, social
values presented in a film and
reponsability and expresses
the cultural values of its
them in written form. -Create
surrounding. -Describe what is different comics based on their
a scene mounting and the
personal experience. importance in a film.
Recognize the elements of a
comic in the creation of one.
Life and death cycles - Film

6
Meetings of culture - Music
Research and build musical
instruments to create a basic
rythm that reflects its personal
vision, religion and culture.

-Research and describe the

ecuadorian musical
instruments. -Describe one or
more effects of the artistic
migration movements. -Listen
and analyze a conversation in
the classroom with alternative
music elements.
-Local soundscape. -Local
Life and death cycles - Film - -My surroundings -Informal art
listening environment. -History
Death ceremonies across
performances -Verbal
of sounds: origins and tones. cultures. -Film History. -Movie
components of the comic aesthetic criteria - Rythms analysis
Comic History
Design principles for posters -

SCIENCE CLASS CONTENT:

QUIMESTER 1
BLOCK

UNIT TITLE

Nature of Science

The universe and Solar system

The solar system and the

Earth-Moon-Sun system

EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVE

SKILL WITH
PERFOMANCE
CRITERIA

CONTENT

Develop the knowledge and

uderstanding of humankind's
Explore the origins and
needs to explore the universe
eventual fate of the Universe
and its practice
L2.1:Distinguish the
L1.1: Discuss what
hierarchical relationships
characterizes science and its
between planets and other
methods, distinguish between astronomical bodies relative to
L3.4 and 5: Compare and
scientif and pseudocientific
solar system, galaxy and
contrast the properties of
ideas L1.2:Use phrases such as
universe L2.2:Describe and
objects in the solar system
results support, proof L1.3:
classify physical properties of including the sun, conevection,
Define a problem, plan and
stars: brightness, color, size,
sunspots, solar flares and
carry out scientific
and luminosity. L3.1:Compare
prominences. L3.6 Define a
investigations, identify
various historical models of the
problem using a appropiate
variables, collect data, interpret
solar system, including
reference to support scientific
data, analyze information
geocentri and heliocentric.
understaning. L4.1,2,3 Explain
L1.4:Select models useful in
L3.2 Explore the Law of
the impact of objects in space
relating results, analyze the
Universal Gravitation by
on each other including: the
methods used to develop a
explaining the role that gravity
sun on Earth, including
scientific explanation. L1.5
plays in the formation of
seasons and gravitational
Explain that science is one of
planets, stars, and solar
attraction, the mooon on earth,
the processes that can be used
systems and in determining
including phases, tides, and
to inform decision making and
their motions. L3.3 Create
eclipses, and the realtive
how socio political and
models of solar properties
position of each body.
economical factors affect
including: rotation, structure of
science and viceversa.
the Sun, convection, sunspots,
solar flares and prominences
-The terrestrial Planets - The
-What is science -Scientific
- Structure of the Universe - gas giant planets -Small Bodies
Knowledge -Scientific
Stars -Historical Models of the
in the Solar system -Earth's
Investigations -Representing
solar system -Gravity and the
days, Years and Seasons Data -Science and Society
Solar system -The Sun
Moon Phases and Eclipses Earth Tides
Understand the role of science
knowledge and its impact in
the society

QUIMESTER 2

BLOCK

UNIT TITLE

Space and Exploration

Matter

Cycling of matter and Energy

EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVE

SKILL WITH
PERFOMANCE
CRITERIA

CONTENT

Use of technologies for space

Understand properties of
and exploration
matter and how it changes
L5.1: Identify and compare
characteristics of the
L6.2: Classify and compare
electromagnetic spectrum such
substances on the basis of
as wavelenght, frequency, use
characteristic physical
and hazards and recognize its
properties that can be
applicatio to an understanding
demonstrated or measured:
of planetary images and
density, thermal or electrical
satellite photographs L5.2:
conductivty, solubility L6:3
Explain that sicence is one of
Investigate and describe how
the processes that can be used
temperature influences
to inform decision making at
checmical changes L6.4:
the community, state, national
Explore the scientifci theory of
and international levels. L5.3
atoms by using models to
Summarize the effects of space
explain the motion of particles
exploratio on the economy and
in solids, liquids and gases.
culture of Florida L6.1:
L6.5: Identify basic examples
Differentiate between weight
of and compare and classify
and mass, recognizing that
the properties of compounds,
weight is the amount of
including acids, bases and
gravitational pull on an object
salts.
and is disctinct from though
proportional to, mass.
-Images from space Technology for space
Exploration -Space
Exploration and Florida Introduction to Matter

Explore Matter and its

relationship with energy
L6.6 Explore the scientific
theory of atoms L6.7:
Recognize that elements are
grouped in the periodic table
according to similarities of
their properties L7.1 Describe
and investigate the process of
photosynthesis and how
cellullar respiration breaks
down tthe food to rpovide
energy and releases carbon
dioxide L7.2 Construct a
scientific model of the carbon
cycle to show how matter and
energy are continously
transferred within and between
organisms and their physical
environment. Select models
useful in relating the results of
their own investigations.

-Properties of matter -Physical -The atom -the periodic table and chemical Changes - States Photosynthesis and cellullar of Mattter -Pure Subtances and
Energy and Matter in
Mixtures
Ecosystems