For Business & CTE Teachers
High School Business Lesson Plans
Lesson plans, worksheets and printable business forms for the courses a high school business department actually runs — Introduction to Business, Accounting, Marketing, Business Communications, Customer Service, Keyboarding, Business Law and Entrepreneurship. Start with the course you teach. Every link below shows the grade band its own page states, so you can see the fit before you click.
About This Page
Business teachers rarely teach one subject. The same person is timetabled for Accounting first period, Marketing second and Keyboarding after lunch, and every one of those courses needs its own material by Monday. This site files that material by subject, the way a library does. You are timetabled by course. This page maps one onto the other.
Everything below already exists on the site and stays where it is. Nothing here is a separate product, a separate subscription or a separate login: the same membership opens all of it, and the free material stays free whether you find it from this page or from anywhere else.
Lessons live under their subject hubs. This page curates and sequences the accounting lesson plans, customer service worksheets, business math worksheets, keyboarding lesson plans, entrepreneurship lessons, business writing lessons, economics lessons and career readiness lessons already on the site — not the other way around.
By Course
Find your course
Eleven course blocks, each one opening with the material a teacher reaches for first. The link at the top of every block goes to the subject hub, where the rest of that subject lives. The band beside each link is the one that page states about itself — several are written for middle school and are here because a first-year course can still use them.
Introduction to Business · Accounting I · Marketing & Sales · Business Communications · Customer Service & Hospitality · Keyboarding · Business Law · Entrepreneurship · Business Math · Career readiness & work-based learning · Personal Finance
Introduction to Business
The survey course, where a first-year business student meets the vocabulary once and then needs it in every later class.
- Introduction to Accounting: What Is Accounting?11–12 / College
- What Is Economics?6–12
- Which Business to Choose6–10
- Business Ownership Structures9–12
- Careers in Business8–12
- Key Economic Questions9–12
Accounting I
A full bookkeeping sequence, in the order the cycle is taught: the equation, then the entries, then the statements they produce.
- Fundamental Concepts of Accounting (GAAP)11–12 / College
- The Accounting Process11–12 / College
- Transaction Analysis11–12 / College
- Accrual Accounting and Adjusting EntriesCollege / Advanced
- Trial Balance and Financial Statements11–12 / College
- Linking the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet11–12 / College
- Depreciation11–12 / College
- Closing the Books11–12 / College
- Financial Ratio Analysis11–12 / College
- Profit and Loss Statement generator7–Adult
Marketing & Sales
From who the customer is through to what the price should be, with the markup and commission arithmetic a marketing class still has to do.
Business Communications
Letters, email, grammar and presenting — the course most often assembled from scratch out of whatever is to hand.
Customer Service & Hospitality
A ten-lesson unit built around the conversations a student will actually have on a shift, plus two simulators for practising the till.
- Introduction to Customer Service9–12
- Determining Customer Needs9–12
- Dealing with Difficult Customers9–12
- Dealing with Customer Complaints9–12
- Customer Service by Phone9–12
- Cash Register Simulator lesson plan9–12 & Adult Ed
- Cashier Training lesson plan11–12 & Adult Ed
- Restaurant Guest Check generator3–6
Keyboarding
Six lessons of beginner touch-typing: posture and the home row first, then one new set of reaches per lesson.
Business Law
Filed under entrepreneurship because that is where a student meets it — as the rules binding the business they are planning.
- Introduction to Law9–12
- Business Law: Crimes11–12 / College
- Business Tort Law11–12 / College
- Business Expenses: Licenses, Locations and Patents3–8
- Credit Rights9–12
Entrepreneurship
A build-a-business arc that ends with a class bazaar, so the plan gets tested against real customers.
Business Math
The applied-arithmetic course: percentages that mean something, plus the interest and return work an accounting student meets again later.
- Calculating Discounts5–8
- Calculating a Sales Price6–9
- Calculating Interest6–9
- Calculating Principal, Rate and Time7–10
- Using Algebra to Make Business Decisions7–12
- Return on Investment generator7–Adult
- Foreign Exchange generator6–12 · Middle · High School
- Opportunity Cost generator4–Adult
Career readiness & work-based learning
The paperwork half of a co-op or internship placement: the application, the interview, the first pay stub and the forms that come with it.
- Job Application Form7–12 · Special Ed
- Resume Writing7–12
- How to Write a Cover Letter9–12
- Job Interview Skills7–12
- Your First Paycheck lesson plan9–12 & Adult
- Pay Stub generator6–Adult
- Timecard generator5–Adult
- W-4 Tax Form generator7–Adult
Personal Finance
The one course here that ships as a course: ten five-day units, a whole-course diagnostic and a cumulative final.
Printable Forms
Business paperwork your students fill in
Twenty-four of the worksheet generators earn a place in a business course. Each prints a fresh set every time it runs, so two classes get different sheets and a lesson that goes sideways can be reprinted.
Fifteen print a business document
The sheet is the paperwork — an income statement, a pay stub, a timecard, a W-2, a bank reconciliation — and the student reads or completes it. Three of them are written for elementary grades and say so in the band beside them; the rest run to grade 12 or adult.
- Profit and Loss Statement7–Adult
- Sales Invoice3–6
- Restaurant Guest Check3–6
- Grocery Store Receipt3–6
- Pay Stub6–Adult
- Timecard5–Adult
- W-2 Tax Form7–Adult
- W-4 Tax Form7–Adult
- 1040 Tax Form8–Adult
- Blank Checks4–Adult
- Check Register4–Adult
- Checkbook Transactions4–Adult
- Balancing a Checkbook6–12
- Check Endorsements4–Adult
- Deposit Slips4–Adult
Nine are practice sets built on business content
These are exercises rather than documents: priced items, word problems, a supply-and-demand table, a sort. Useful in the same courses, but do not print them expecting paperwork.
- Return on Investment7–Adult
- Sales Discount4–8
- Comparison Shopping4–7
- Supply and Demand6–12
- Goods and ServicesK–6
- Opportunity Cost4–Adult
- Foreign Exchange6–12 · Middle · High School
- Compound Interest7–Adult
- Rule of 727–12
What there is no generator for. Journal entries, T-accounts, ledger posting, trial balances and payroll registers are taught in the accounting lesson plans rather than generated. And three of the twenty-four above print no answer key — Blank Checks, Check Register and Opportunity Cost — because on those sheets there is nothing to key.
Print and Go
Sorting cards, document packs and classroom kits
The sorting-card packs are the closest thing here to a bookkeeping manipulative: students put a card in a column and argue about why. The document packs teach a student to read a real pay stub, receipt, bank statement or credit report, which is the reading half of an accounting course.
Run It as a Business
Turn the room into the thing you are teaching
A classroom economy gives every abstract idea in a business course somewhere to land: jobs, payroll, a store, prices that have to cover costs. Students sign in with a class code, a username and a PIN — no student email addresses, and nothing for a student to buy.
Access
What is free, and what a membership opens
Every lesson page on this site is readable without an account: the objectives, the teaching sequence, the discussion questions and the activity are all on the page, and you can run a period from them. What a membership opens is the printable half — the student worksheet, the answer key and the worksheet generators. Each lesson page says which it is, in a badge at the top, before you click anything.
These are some of the business and career downloads that sit behind that badge:
One membership covers every subject on this page, in every grade band, for a full year — there is no module sold separately and nothing extra to buy inside the site. See the membership options. If your school buys on your behalf rather than you paying for it, we accept purchase orders.
If It Is Also On Your Schedule
The personal finance course
Business departments are usually the ones handed the personal finance requirement, so it is worth saying plainly what ships and what does not. There are ten five-day units — Banking & Checking · Budgeting & First Paycheck · Careers & Paying for Education · Credit & Borrowing · Insurance & Risk · Investing & Long-Term Growth · Modern Payments, Scams & Fraud · Renting & Major Purchases · Saving & Emergency Funds · Taxes & First Filing — each with a teacher guide, a student packet, a pre-quiz, a post-quiz, an answer key, a vocabulary sheet, an editable slide deck and an applied project, plus a whole-course diagnostic and a cumulative final. There is no accounting unit and no entrepreneurship unit; those subjects are taught lesson by lesson, in the blocks above.
If someone has to check this against a state requirement, the standards crosswalk lists each state’s personal finance standards one by one and says whether a unit covers each fully, in part, or not at all. It maps personal finance standards only — it does not map business, marketing or accounting standards. See the curriculum.
Common Questions
Before you plan around it
Is there a complete business course or accounting course?
No. The only material here that ships as a full course is personal finance. Accounting is eleven sequenced lessons, Business Communications is fifteen, Entrepreneurship is twenty-one — strong sets you can teach from, but you assemble the course.
Are the keyboarding lessons a typing tutor?
No. They are six worksheet-based lessons on posture, the home row and one new set of reaches at a time. There is no software, no automatic scoring and no words-per-minute tracking. The one place speed appears at all is the last lesson’s extension activity, which invites students to time themselves once and try to beat it — the lessons put accuracy first and say so.
Do students need their own accounts?
Not for the worksheets and lessons — those you print. For the classroom tools, students join with a class code, a username and a PIN you issue; they need no email address and no membership of their own. How the classroom works.
Can I use this with adult or evening classes?
In part, and the band beside each link tells you which. Three of the lesson plans here name adult education outright — the cash register simulator, cashier training and your first paycheck — and fourteen of the generators carry a band that runs to “Adult”. Everything else is banded for school grades. The adult education page collects what was written for adult learners.
Can my school pay by purchase order?
Yes, and it is handled by a person rather than a procurement portal. What buying on a purchase order involves.
Every lesson page linked from here is free to read. Printable worksheets, answer keys and the worksheet generators are part of a Full Membership.
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