Listed below are the nine strands (subject areas) offered through Venture Academics. Each strands has learning goals. Click on the strand to learn more about specific learning goals. Use this information to brainstorm project ideas. Projects are meant to supplement other learning so don’t feel like a project needs to match all of the learning goals for a subject area, alignment with 2-3 learning goals is fine!

Please note: You may closely align with one subject area but may still be able to provide projects for other subject areas as well. For example: You manufacture metal components for various products. You might think that you could only provide projects for the Business students, but you probably have various facets of your business that could be applied to other subject areas. Maybe you would like to improve your hiring process and appeal to a different group of applicants- that would be a good project for Behavior Science students. Maybe you would like to improve the process for how you dispose of waste to be environmentally responsible- that could be a project for Environmental Science students. Maybe you would like to create some marketing for a new line, including a new website- that could be a project for the Digital Design students. 

Advanced Business

Business/Consumer Law:

• Analyze the relationship between ethics and the law
• Describe the major sources of today's law
• Identify the major classes of crimes
• Describe the trial process
• Describe tort law and the remedies available to tort victims

Entrepreneurship:

• Work appropriately and productively with others
• Adapt to various roles & responsibilities when working with others
• Demonstrate leadership skills/responsibility to achieve a common goal
• Takes initiative and monitors self in own learning.
• Demonstrate productivity/ accountability by meeting high expectations
• Understands concepts/processes for successful entrepreneurial performance
• Identify tools used to evaluate business opportunities
• Create a business plan/canvas to define a venture idea.
• Identify the 4 keys to Marketing: Product, Place, Price, & Promotion
• Understands the financial concepts and tools
• Apply learning to comprehensive, collaborative business project
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of entrepreneurial concepts
• Initiates and participates effectively in collaborative discussions
• Integrates multiple sources of information
• Presents information, findings, and supporting evidence
• Makes strategic use of digital media in presentations
• Adapts speech to a variety of contexts and tasks

Behavioral Science:

• Knowledge & application of origins, theory, & methodology of sociology
• Knowledge & application of culture, group dynamics, & deviance
• Investigate contemporary issues of inequality
• Explain the institutions of society from a sociological perspective
• Apply sociology to the living patterns and issues in America
• Students understand psychology as an empirical science that includes subfields, research methods, ethics, and perspectives.
• Students apply and distinguish among theories of lifespan development, including physical, social and cognitive changes.
• Students apply theories of learning, including classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational & cognitive learning.
• Demonstrates accountability and engagement
• Students distinguish among the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) categories of psychological disorders and the disorders within the categories.
• Students explore and distinguish major theories of how humans develop personality,  enduring patterns of behavior and personal characteristics that influence how others relate to them.

English:

• Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into an informative text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
• Analyze the impact of the authors choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
• Participates in public performances
• Read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-12 text
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
• Develops vocabulary base/roots/prefix/suffix
• Examine literature and texts for specific author intent and choices
• Produce writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

Business Foundations:

• Analyze choices due to the basic economic problem of scarcity
• Differentiate among the main types of economic systems
• Analyze how a company uses their Marketing Mix
• Analyze the three major forms of business ownership
• Explain the functions of management
• Differentiate between types of production and manufacturing
• Explain methods used to evaluate the strength of an economy.
• Analyze key factors of a global economy.
• Demonstrate productivity/accountability by meeting high expectations
• Takes initiative and monitors self in own learning
• Apply learning to unique, comprehensive business project
• Analyze how a company uses their Marketing Mix

Marketing:

• Analyze how a company uses their Marketing Mix
• Understand what the promotional mix is and what causes it to change
• Analyze a distribution channel & the members which make one up
• Identify how a company add/modify/delete products from its product mix
• Work appropriately and productively with others
• Determine the steps used to determine the selling price of a product
• Adapt to various roles & responsibilities when working with others
• Analyze customer groups and identify how to reach specific target markets
• Takes initiative and monitors self in own learning.
• Demonstrate productivity/ accountability by meeting high expectations
• Initiates and participates effectively in collaborative discussions
• Integrates multiple sources of information
• Presents information, findings, and supporting evidence
• Makes strategic use of digital media in presentations
• Adapts speech to a variety of contexts and tasks

Digital Design and Communications:

• Connecting: Relates personal meaning and external context to work
• Creating: Conceives and develops new artistic ideas and work
• Responding: Understands and evaluates how the arts convey meaning
• Presenting/Producing/Performing: Develops, refines, and presents work
• Employability: Exhibits skills of productive and competent citizens
  

Earth Science:

• Claim cause and effect relationships in Earth systems feedback
• Illustrate features of Earth due to internal / surface processes
• Model variation in energy budget and climate change.
• Model the carbon cycle among Earth's spheres.
• Explain how water influences Earth features.
• Identify how natural resource availability & hazards influence humans
• Design, evaluate and refine a solution to reduce human impacts.
• Create a city focusing on sustainable environmental, economic, social
• Explain the Big Bang theory based on astronomical evidence
• Uses representations to predict the motion of orbiting objects

English:

• Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources
• Analyze the impact of the authors choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
• Participates in public performances
• Read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-12 text
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
• Develops vocabulary base/roots/prefix/suffix
• Examine literature and texts for specific author intent and choices
• Produce writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
  

Environmental Science:

• Explain how ecosystems are the result of biotic and abiotic interactions and that they change over time.
• Explain how Earth's systems interact, resulting in a state of balance over time.
• Explain when humans use natural resources, they alter natural systems
• Explain how human activities have physical, chemical, and biological consequences for ecosystems.
• Provide reasoning to justify a claim by connecting evidence to theory
• Explain how populations change over time in reaction to a variety of factors.
• Explain that most of Earth's atmospheric processes are driven by input of energy from the sun.
• Explain that humans use energy from a variety of sources, resulting in positive and negative consequences.
• Explain how human activities have physical, chemical, and biological consequences for the atmosphere.
• Explain how pollutants can have both direct and indirect impacts on the health of organisms.
• Pose testable question & conduct experimental procedure
• Construct a graph, plot or chart with all appropriate factors
• Determine stat differences using confidence intervals &/or error bars

Government and Law:

• Analyze how the rights of individuals changed thru historical periods
• Examine the basic principles and framework of the Constitution
• Analyze the role of the federal court system in Supreme Court Cases
• Analyze the role of the Iowa Courts in Iowa's criminal justice system
• Examine govts in general and analyze  formation of  Constitution
• Analyze pol ideology & how linkage institutions connect us to govt
• Analyze the legislative branch of the federal government.
• Analyze the executive branch of the federal government.
• Analyze the judicial branch of the federal government.
• Demonstrates accountability and engagement

English:

• Write arguments to support claims in analysis of substantive topics
• Use precise claim to establish argument
• Introduce a topic, organize information to create a unified whole
• Orient reader to problem and its significance to create event
• Uses most relevant evidence effectively to support claim
• Write informative/explanatory texts to convey complex ideas
• Develop the topic thoroughly using significant and relevant facts
• Use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, characters
• Provide significance of topic that supports the information presented
• Write narratives to develop experiences using effective techniques
• Use precise words and phrases to convey a vivid picture of the events
• Use transitions to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
• Provide a conclusion that reflects experience throughout narrative
• Gather/assess sources; integrate information, follow citation format
• Uses MLA style, academic tone and conventions effectively
• Determine central ideas of a text and analyze their development
• Develop writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting
• Deliver quality job performance on time

Health:

• Analyzes the influence of family, peers, culture, media on health
• Demonstrates health enhancing behaviors to avoid/reduce health risks
• Demonstrates how to use decision making skills to enhance health
• Demonstrates how to access information and products to enhance health
• Comprehends concepts for health promotion and prevention of diseases
• Demonstrate leadership, integrity, ethics, and  responsibility
• Determines academic requirements necessary for pursing a health career
• Explains the healthcare workers role in the healthcare system
• Evaluates the responsibilities of members of the healthcare team
• Analyzes the legal ethics of the healthcare workplace
• Utilizes interpersonal communication skills to avoid health risks
• Utilizes goal-setting skills to enhance health
• Is able to advocate for personal, family & community health
• Demonstrate leadership, integrity, ethics, and  responsibility

Life Science:

• Explain the mechanisms of homeostasis & feedback
• Model the role of P/CR in cycling carbon among Earth's spheres
• Explain common ancestry with multiple lines of evidence
• Outline evidence to show how natural selection leads to adaptation
• Evaluate the interactions that may stabilize or change ecosystems
• Design a solution for reducing human impacts on biodiversity/environment
• Model cell division and differentiation in complex organisms
• Use data to explain distribution of varied traits in a population
• Explain evidence for biomolecules consumption and production
• Research causes & consequences of a genetic disorders
• Argue evidence to support/refute a human impact solution
• Demonstrate productivity & accountability for work completion

English:

• Write arguments to support claims in analysis of substantive topics
• Use precise claim to establish argument
• Introduce a topic, organize information to create a unified whole
• Orient reader to problem and its significance to create event
• Uses most relevant evidence effectively to support claim
• Write informative/explanatory texts to convey complex ideas
• Develop the topic thoroughly using significant and relevant facts
• Use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, characters
• Provide significance of topic that supports the information presented
• Write narratives to develop experiences using effective techniques
• Use precise words and phrases to convey a vivid picture of the events
• Use transitions to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
• Provide a conclusion that reflects experience throughout narrative
• Gather/assess sources; integrate information, follow citation format
• Uses MLA style, academic tone and conventions effectively
• Determine central ideas of a text and analyze their development
• Develop writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting
• Deliver quality job performance on time

Writing

• Write narratives using effective technique/details/event sequences.
  
• Develop writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting
• Produce writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• Write arguments to support claims in analysis of substantive topics
• Use precise claim to establish argument
• Introduce a topic, organize information to create a unified whole
• Orient reader to problem and its significance to create event
• Uses most relevant evidence effectively to support claim
• Write informative/explanatory texts to convey complex ideas
• Develop the topic thoroughly using significant and relevant facts
• Use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, characters
• Provide significance of topic that supports the information presented
• Write narratives to develop experiences using effective techniques
• Use precise words and phrases to convey a vivid picture of the events
• Use transitions to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
• Provide a conclusion that reflects experience throughout narrative
• Gather/assess sources; integrate information, follow citation format
• Uses MLA style, academic tone and conventions effectively
• Determine central ideas of a text and analyze their development
• Develop writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting
• Deliver quality job performance on time
• Identify participles, infinitives, and gerund phrases
• Identify subordinate (adjective/adverb/noun) and independent clauses
• Identify/differentiate 7 sentence patterns & 4 sentence structures
• Understand basic components of the 8 parts of speech
• Demonstrate control over basic/essential grammatical elements

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