It Takes a Village! In every business, it takes more than one person to create success - whether you are talking about a berry farm, a historic theater, a popular amusement park, or an expanding coffee chain. While you watch the videos, notice how many different people work together to support and sustain these operations.

Cogdell Berry Farm

Fox Theatre

Six Flags

Jittery Joes

Now, let's put it all together by creating a presentation entitled "It Takes a Village." Your presentation could either be a word document, a digital mind map, or a slideshow, but it must include a chart and research paragraph for each company. In your presentation, you should create a visual chart or slideshow featuring each company and highlighting at least two different jobs that are needed to keep each company running. Make it clear that each company is comprised of many different positions and discuss how people with different skills and interests work together to contribute to a successful enterprise.

Finally, pick out one career from each video and do some additional research on it. Let's consult our handy reference, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook once again to find more information. This time check out the headings 'How to Become One,' 'Pay,' and 'Job Outlook' for each career you choose.

Your presentation should include the following content:

A chart/slideshow that describes each of the four companies with at least two jobs discussed in each company.
In depth research on one job per company, including:
How to Become One
Pay
Job Outlook
However you choose to arrange your presentation, make sure to show clearly that the companies you learned about rely on more than one position to keep things running smoothly.

TABLE Grading Rubric
Content Spelling/Grammar
Full Credit
Student has discussed all four companies and researched one job per company.

Student has used complete sentences where possible and has less than three spelling errors.

Partial Credit
Student has included some content but is missing one or two pieces.

Student has used complete sentences but has more than three spelling errors.

Little Credit
Student is missing three or more required content pieces.

Student has not used complete sentences AND has more than three spelling errors.