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Tri-Fold Board Rubric for Colonial Presentation
Name:_____________________#________ Date______________
In completing this project, you will imagine what it must have been like to be an entrepreneur in colonial
times.
Design a Tri-Fold Board to Represent the following (using the Colonial Business Plan as a guide):
• A chart demonstrating the process used in manufacturing your product/ or explaining your service
(steps involved). This will include pictures of the process to produce the good or service.
• Explain what the product is and if it is a good or service
• A map of the colonies, showing the major port city, the location of your business, the location of
your raw materials, and an explanation of why you chose that location.
• Tell the natural resources, human capital, and capital equipment needed to produce good or service
• An advertisement (sign) aimed at the consumer of your product (not on tri-fold board).
• A 3-D props or model of your product.
GRADING RUBRIC
Tri-fold board made using the Business Plan Sheet
Should Include
Natural resources (3)
Human Capital (3)
Capital equipment (3)
Product and explain if this is a good or service (4)
Step-by-step process (with pictures), from
raw material to finished product (12)
25
Colonial Map with location marked of your colony as well as port
city (if you didn’t pick a port city)
Explanation of why you chose this area
This should be included on the tri-fold board
Advertisement—with catchy saying (separate from tri-fold
board).
Colonial Business Plan & Vocabulary (packet handed in on time,
prior to presentation)
3-D props or model of your object
10
Costume
10
Personal Best
10
Presentation board
Use of space, neatness, spelling, typed
15
10
10
15
Colonial Plan Business Vocabulary
*Before you begin your colonial occupation project, you need to make sure that you
understand certain economic concepts. Use your notebooks or the internet to find
the definitions you don’t remember. Many of these words have multiple meanings
so make sure you use the appropriate definition.
Natural resources (raw materials): __________________________
_____________________________________________________
Human Capital: _________________________________________
Producers:_____________________________________________
Consumers:____________________________________________
Goods: _______________________________________________
Services: _____________________________________________
Supply: _______________________________________________
Demand: ______________________________________________
Import: ______________________________________________
Export: ______________________________________________
Port: ________________________________________________
My Business Plan
Make sure you restate
My business/ occupation is:____________________________
The name of my business is: ________________________
Are you providing a good or a service? Explain
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
What natural resources (raw materials) will you need to produce your
good or provide your service?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
What human capital (people) will you need?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
What will be the capital equipment you will need?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
Map
I will locate my business in this colony:
_________________
Reasons for locating my business in this
colony
include:_________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
_______________________
The nearest city and port to my
business: _________________
The location of the natural resources
(raw materials) that I will use
:___________________
*Color and label the colony in which you
work. Then label the nearest city and/
or port to your business.