Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Business Quest Unit Details

Mr. Serem/ Mr. Wafula
Subject group and discipline
Digital Design
Unit title
Business Quest
MYP year
4
Unit duration (hrs)
25hrs
Inquiry: Establishing the purpose of the unit

Key concept
Related concept(s)
Global context
Communities
Market and Trends
Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of inquiry
Technical innovations are both a function and product of trends in communities.
Inquiry questions
Factual          — What software tools and techniques have been for numeric analysis?
Conceptual   — Can results of any market trends system be influenced by the designer for their advantage?
Debatable     — How reliable are the results of market data in decision making?
Objectives
Summative assessment
Objective A: Inquiring and analysing
Objective B: Developing ideas
Objective C: Creating a solution
Objective D: Evaluating
Outline of summative assessment task(s) including assessment criteria:
There are many business that are starting up daily. Students will develop solutions aimed at driving solving business related problems for residents of Mombasa and it’s environs. The effectiveness of the solution will be determined by the feedback, the growth of their businesses.

Relationship between summative assessment task(s) and statement of inquiry:
Students will have deeper understanding and use software that allows them to improve the management and performance of different businesses.
Approaches to learning (ATL)
Collaboration skills: Make fair and equitable decisions; Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas; Give and receive meaningful feedback; Advocate for one’s own rights and needs.
Communication skills: Give and receive meaningful feedback during presentations; Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and media; Organize and depict information logically; Understand and use mathematical functions
Transfer skills: Compare conceptual understanding across multiple subject groups and disciplines.
Information Literacy Skills: Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions; Process data and report results.
Critical Thinking: Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems; Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument; Recognize unstated assumptions and bias;  Interpret data; Evaluate evidence and arguments;  Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
Thinking skills: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes.

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