👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will identify different roles in a business and explain how teamwork helps businesses operate.

Teaching Notes

• Discuss common roles: owners, employees, managers, customers.
• Use examples from familiar places like schools, stores, restaurants.
• Highlight that every role contributes to success.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

This lesson helps you understand Who does what in business and the people involved in business.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — A person who works for a business and helps it run.
• — A person who organizes work and helps employees succeed.
• — Someone who guides others toward a goal.
• — Working together to reach a shared goal.
• — People living and working in the same area.

Business QA

1. Who is an employee?
2. What does a manager do?
3. What is teamwork?
4. Why do businesses need different roles?
5. Name one job in a restaurant.
6. What makes a good leader?
7. Why should leaders listen to employees?
8. What does respect mean in leadership?
9. How can leaders motivate workers?
10. Why is communication important?
11. What is a positive workplace?
12. How can leaders help employees improve?
13. What does feedback mean?
14. Why do employees work better with clear goals?
15. How do businesses affect consumers?
16. How do businesses help communities?
17. What is one negative effect a business can have?
18. Why should businesses act responsibly?
19. What is customer service?
20. Why is trust important in business?

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need: role cards, paper, markers.
What You Do: 1) Create a pretend business (e.g., bakery). 2) Assign roles: manager, cashier, cook, customer helper. 3) Practice how leaders give instructions and support the team.
Think and Talk: What changed? What stayed the same?

Reflection

• What role would you enjoy most in a business, and why?
• What is one quality of a good leader?
• How can leaders help employees do their best?
• How can businesses support communities?