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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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Curated OER

Apply Technological Design and Scientific Habits of Mind

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the principles involved with technological design. In groups, they use the Internet to research an important historical innovation and how it changed the world. They discover the barriers that were involved in...
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Curated OER

Bug Village

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create small "villages" of rock bugs in this cute Art lesson using blocks of wood, glue guns, rocks, acorns, and sticks. The lesson includes resource links and pictures of the finished product in either a "natural" finish or a...
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Curated OER

Entrepreneur: Anita Roddick

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discover how entrepreneurs make their living. As a class, they identify the characteristics of entrepreneurships and their attitudes. Using the internet, they research the life of Anita Roddick, who founded the Body Shop. They...
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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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Oneida Nation of the Thames

For Students 9th - 10th
The Oneida Nation migrated to the area around the Thames River in Ontario in 1840. See how the Oneida people have maintained their culture while enriching their community through their entrepreneurial spirit.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
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Activity
Genius Brands International

Secret Millionaires Club: Webisode Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Backed by Warren Buffett, "the world's most famous investor," the Secret Millionaires Club teaches children about saving and investing money, about how businesses and credit cards work, and about the personal qualities that support...
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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board: Financial Literacy: Teach It!

For Students 9th - 10th
Students at all grade levels learn about basic finance skills and explore ways to make informed decisions about their financial future.
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Junior Achievement Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
This organization offers programs for youth to help them understand about business and how to start one. It also offers in-school presentations. They have chapters all across Canada.
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: British Agricultural Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Enhance AP European History studies with this slideshow. Find a thoroughy illustrated breakdown of the agricultural revolution in England from advancements in science and technology as well as outside of the box thinking which led to...
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Basic Ingredients of the Us Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Every economic system tries to anticipate and then meet human needs through the production and distribution of goods and services. The economic system is the mechanism that brings together natural resources, the labor supply, technology,...
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Other

Finding Dulcinea: Madam C. J. Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
Madam C. J. Walker is featured in this brief biography for her entrepreneurial success as an African American woman in the early twentieth century.
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Other

T L Irrigation Co.: Top 10 Agriculture Colleges and Universities

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights some of the USA's best agricultural schools from entrepreneurial programs to agribusiness training centers.
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Interactive
Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Profit Video and Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated by subtracting a firm's costs of producing a good or service from the revenues received from selling the good...
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Website
Other

Small Business Advisor: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The qualities of an entrepreneur are discussed in detail. This site from the Small Business Advisor guides you through a series of questions for a self-evaluation. Link to The Advisor under Contents followed by Starting a Business.
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Other

U.s. Scouting Service Project: Merit Badge: Entrepreneurship

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an outline for the entrepreneur to follow when thinking about starting a business.
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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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Website
PBS

Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
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PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
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Other

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: Do I Have What It Takes Entrepreneur? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of lessons which introduces the concept of entrepreneurship and its importance in today's global economy.

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