Georgia SS6E12.e
The Standard
Describe the role of entrepreneurship.
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Australia.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how entrepreneurs spot opportunities, organize resources, and accept risk to start businesses. They connect new businesses to jobs, innovation, competition, and economic growth in Australia.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given an Australian start-up example, students can identify the entrepreneur’s choices and risks. They can trace how the business may create jobs, sell products, and increase economic activity.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every employee or manager is an entrepreneur. They may also assume new businesses always succeed, or that earning profit is their only effect on the economy.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: An Australian entrepreneur opens a solar panel company. Explain two ways the company could support economic growth and name one risk the entrepreneur takes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups labor, capital, and resource cards; have them build an Australian ecotour business and label one risk, job, and economic benefit.
Ask students to write: How could a business idea that addresses drought create jobs and help Australia’s economy?
Run a scenario sort where students label each person entrepreneur, employee, consumer, or investor and explain each choice.
Read a short profile of Canva, then map how its founders’ idea, risk, hiring, and global sales affected Australia’s economy.
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