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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Business Lessons from the Basket Weaver

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basket weaving business and entrepreneurship in action. They discuss the basket weaving business and identify business concepts that apply to the creation and sell of baskets. Students identify factors that regulate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the motivation behind owning your own business. They plan a course of action to research the pros and cons of owning a business and then share their information with the rest of the class as a follow up activity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Entrepreneur's Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the basic principles of the US free enterprise system. They examine the basic principles of the US free enterprise system including profit motive, voluntary exchange, private property rights, and competition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Raising the Bar on How Business Gets Done

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of energy bar sales. In this energy bar sales lesson, students read an article about the sales of energy bars. Learners discuss what is meant by red roads and white roads in the article. Students search a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The New Entrepreneurs: Americans Over 50

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students read an article about how Americans over 50 make up a majority of entrepreneurs. Learners discuss why there is an increase in self-employment for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

JetBlue Soars on CEO's Creativity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students read an article about how the CEO of JetBlue has become successful. Young scholars discuss how ADHD has helped the CEO of JetBlue. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is Capitalism Good for the Poor? | How Incentives Affect Innovation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students focus on the role played by a nation's institutions in generating creativity, invention and innovation, and analyzes how innovation promotes the economic growth that raises standards of living and alleviates poverty.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Economics: Who Benefits from Competition?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine competitive markets and complete a simulation called "The More. the Merrier." In the simulation they assess how goods are more available when competition increases. Students investigate how competition and the opening of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nebraska Entrepreneur Success Stories

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study and discuss various entrepreneurs from their home state and then prepare a proposal for a business they would like to own and operate in the future.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hometown Heroes

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students interview various entrepreneurs in their town, asking what they considered in starting and then operating their business. They compose a short essay to report their findings.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
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Website
Other

One Hen: Microfinance for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Inspired by a 2008 book, "One Hen" by Katie Smith Milway, this initiative has turned into a non-profit organization working to teach world issues and global citizenship to children through families and schools.
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Website
Other

One Hen, Inc: Learn, Play, Make a Difference

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is based on the book, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, by Katie Smith Milway. Learn how small loans, called microfinance, can make an impact on people's lives. There are lesson plans, games, and interviews...
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Activity
Other

Babson College: Define Entrepreneurship

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of informal definitions of entrepreneurship gathered from present and past students and affiliates of this business college. Excellent material to stimulate discussion.
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Website
Stanford University

Stanford University: E Corner: Entrepreneurship Videos and Podcasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Offering 2000 videos and podcasts, Entrepreneurship Corner features innovative talks regarding creativity and innovation, opportunity recognition, product development, marketing and sales, finance and venture capital, leadership and...
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Article
Other

Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education: Just What Is Profit?

For Students 9th - 10th
Just what is profit? This article discusses an economics definition of profit, decisions that affect profit, and how to maximize profit.
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Website
Other

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NFTE's goal is to empower youth from low income areas to develop entrepreneurial skills through its many programs and initiatives. In addition, NFTE offers training programs for teachers, as well as curriculum materials that can be...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Entrepreneur in You

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website is a valuable resource in finding out more about being an entrepreneur. It contains a comprehensive lesson plan detailing what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
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Handout
Auburn University

Auburn University: Glossary of Political Economy: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a definitive overview of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship from the point of view of an economist.
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Website
Employment Spot

Employment Spot: Entrepreneurs

For Students 9th - 10th
Starting your own business can be a daunting task. But for many, the idea of working for themselves rather than a large corporation is a dream come true. And although it can be a lot of hard work, owning your own business can be...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Bringing Creativity Into an Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of video lectures by Robert I. Sutton from Stanford University discussing creativity and its place in the modern organization.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Entrepreneurship

For Students 9th - 10th
This on-line encyclopedia provides a definition of entrepreneurship and the origin of this term.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Supercharged Motorcycle Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how collaboration kick-started their friendship- and shared dreams. [2:21]