John Stossel?! "Gimme a break"

Not my favourite TV personality, but he is generous in freebies for teachers. His personalized email says:

Order the New Stossel in the Classroom "2010 Edition" Free DVD: This year's free educational DVD is now available! The Stossel in the Classroom "2010 Edition" DVD includes both English and Spanish subtitles, as well as an accompanying Teacher's Guide (also in both English and Spanish) containing lesson plans, activity suggestions, handouts, and vocabulary. Place your order today! Past titles available as well.
http://stosselintheclassroom.org/selectdvd.php

He has videos available at the time of writing for 2007 through 2010 (free shippping!!), and the topics range from business to civics, to general news items. Teachers' guides are avaialble - but remember to look at the content CRITICALLY. In addition to being US-focused, his DVDs tend to be a bit biased to the right. Not a bad thing - but something you need to balance when using these in the classroom.

PBS Frontline - Assorted

Please browse the video resources at PBS Frontline - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/ - these can be viewed online, and there are many teacher resources available to support them. Some interesting topics include:
- Marketing and Ethics - The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool, and Is Walmart Good for America - deal will many salient issues.

- Finance - in the 2009 collection, quite a few on the financial meltdown; plus "Can You Afford to Retire" is interesting.

Marketing - Merchants of Cool

PBS Frontline - Merchants of Cool - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

This is a great video which can be viewed online free of charge.
It can be used for many different business courses - but has a good connection to marketing.

Note the additional features - interviwes, written information, and so forth.

"The Corporation" lessons

"The Corporation" is a really interesting video - it begins with the legal definition of a corporation as a "person," and goes on to make the claim that corporations exhibit behaviours that would classify a human as a psychopath. It includes many interviews with prominent business leaders and media pundits.

A teachers' guide, fully correlated to the Ontario curriculum, is available at http://www.tvo.org/thecorporation/

CBC Archives - free lessons, media

This link will allow you to look at lesson packs related to various themes - including business studies topics. Each lesson pack includes an assessment instrument, organized according to Ontario Assessment & Evaluation.

http://archives.cbc.ca/for_teachers/