Social Enterprise Education - Planning Your Social Enterprise

This unit of lessons is intended to focus on many of the General Capabilities of the curriculum. There are many elements of the curriculum that can be overlaid into these lessons with minor modifications on the part of the teacher. For a full breakdown of the General Capabilities used and the curriculum links that can be drawn into each lesson, click here.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Creating a Social Enterprise.

Time required: 75+ mins. See Teacher Content Information in the lesson for more information.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.

• Business Plan Worksheet (one per group)
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Example Business Plan 1
• Example Business Plan 2
• SWOT Analysis Worksheet (one per student).

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• communication
• empathy
• collaboration
• social skills

Cool would like to thank Social Enterprise Academy for supporting the development of these lessons.