Preparing for a Food Fund Raiser
Computer Resources:
  • Software: Hotdog Stand or Roller Coaster Tycoon
  • Internet: Lemonade Stand.
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    Software:
  • Roller Coaster Tycoon: http://www.rollercoastertycoon.com/test/index2.html
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    Internet:
  • Lemonade Stand: http://www.lemonadegame.com/
  • Lemonade Stand: http://www.lemonadestandgame.com/
  • Lemonade Stand: http://www.classbrain.com/cb_games/cb_gms_bag/lemonade.html
  • Lemonade Stand: http://www.4webgames.com/lemonade/; allows multiple players.
    • Cost: Free, Less than $20=$, Less than $50=$$, More than $50=$$$.
  • Lemonade Stand = Free
  • Roller Coaster Tycoon = $$
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    Life Skills:
  • Leadership | Decision Making | Workforce Skills
  • Planning & Organization | Using IT | Team Work
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    Age Level:
  • Intergenerational
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    Setting:
  • Youth can work on software individually, as a team.
  • Youth can work at program setting, from home.
  • Youth can work simultaneously, sequentially.
  • Activity with wraparound and extended, can become a day or residential camp.
  • Activity with wraparound and extended, can become an afer school program.
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    *Do:
  • Work with software, first either: Hotdog Stand or Lemonade Stand.
  • Work with advanced software, either: Roller Coaster or DinoPark
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    *Reflect:
  • Consider process and outcome, including insights from wraparound and extended activities.
  • Create business plan, including draft budget, for your food stand fund raiser.
  • Create job descriptions and work rules.
  • Give a multimedia presentation to a potential funder to obtaing start-up funding.
  • Conservative or risk taking?
  • Who would you hire?
  • Why do people buy a product, spend money?
  • what makes a business likely to suceed?
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    Apply:
  • Shop for materials, prepare stand, decide on staff and roles.
  • Run a food stand as a fund raiser, (implement business plan)
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    Extended Activities:
  • Practice making change.
  • Speaker on food safety, starting a business, running a business, advertising.
  • Consider, write job descriptions & employee qualifications.
  • Field trip to a fast food restauraunt, marketing firm, or other small business.
  • Online scavenger hunt or other business sims.
  • Internet research to explore laws, costs, food products, etc. for food stand.
  • Use software to create signs, flyers, menus, financial spread sheets, etc.
    • Extended:
  • Food Safety Curriculum: Get a Jump on Germs.
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    Time
  • Variable based on extended activities.
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    Additional Information
  • Miscellaneous information
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    * see Experiential Learning Model