Unit plan

Educator: Stephanie Lawrence County: Baltimore County Subject: Accounting and Finance Capstone

School: Milford Mill Academy

Title: Project Development and Time Management

Unit Overview:

Once students gather information needed for their project, they must organize the information to support the project’s essential question and objectives.

Prerequisites: Principle of Business and Management, Accounting I, and Accounting II

General Learning Objectives or Goals:

Students will construct an detailed outline and analysis illustrating the development of their accounting project with the use of scholarly literary sources
  • Formulate the essential question of the project with three supporting learning goals/focus questions.
  • Find company information for similar real world businesses: financial information, current news and background information, history, and data analysis
  • Submit a timeline of major steps for completion with projected completion dates
  • Complete literature reviews with peer feedback submitted on an online discussion board (new article reviewed each week). The student presenting the article must come up with three discussion questions.
  • Students will submit an detailed outline of the proposal

Materials/ Aides/ Technology Needs:

  • Microsoft Office
  • Online Databases
  • Company Research websites
  • Smart Art in MS Office for graphic organizers
  • Samples of essential questions
  • Coursesite
  • Google Calendar
  • Accounting I and II textbooks
  • Google Drive

Time Allotment: 1 month

Number of Lessons Included in this Unit 4

Identification and Description of Individual Lessons

Lesson Procedures:

  • Lesson 1
Submit project goals/objectives and essential question
  • What is an essential question?
  • Collaborative groups: Create essential questions based on past Accounting Units?
  • Possible Essential Questions
  • Focus goals/objectives based on essential question and past area of study on (Connection to past Accounting lesson(s))

  • Lesson 2
Company analysis:
  • Research real life company with similar product, background, or financial data to subject material found in the project
  • Compile current news and background information (success rate, market, products, etc,)
  • Research the company’s history (How was it established?)
  • Analyze financial information

Lesson 3
Literature investigation
  • At least 15 literary sources summarized with bibliographic annotations
  • Literature review: three discussion questions created, moderated and discussed with the rest of the class.
  • Narrow final topic based on sources

  • Lesson 4
Detailed Outline of Proposal
  • Submit a timeline
  • Weekly meeting with instructor
  • Methodology
  • Data-Surveys, Graphs, Charts, interview, journal entries, Accounting financial data

Unit Procedures:

  • Introduction
  • Introduce students to essential question

  • Closure
  • Complete Project outline

Assessment Measure(s):

  • Graphic organizer connecting essential question to at least three focus questions (Based on Rubric)
  • Two page company analysis (Based on Rubric)
  • Annotated Bibliographies(Based on Rubric)
  • Selection of Literature source, moderation of discussion board (Based on Rubric)
  • Benchmarks in timeline met according to completion date
  • Project Outline (Based on Rubric)