Council for Economic Education
Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature
Introduce young learners to the subject of economics using their favorite stories and books. Including 24 separate lessons, this guide covers economic principles such as trade, scarcity, consumer goods and services, renewable and...
National Woman's History Museum
Inventive Women - Part 1
While a woman didn't invent the parasol, three women received patents for their improvements to the original design of umbrellas. In the first of a two-part series on inventive women, class members investigate the patent system to...
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More Moms, Fewer Pops
Learners explore the concept of women entrepreneurs. In this women entrepreneurs lesson, students read an article about women opening their own businesses. Learners discuss factors influencing women to become entrepreneurs. Students...
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Can Mansueto Turn Magazine Publishing Bust Into a Boom?
Learners explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students read an article about a man who turned a magazine company into a success. Learners compare and contrast two companies, one that is a financial...
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The Dairy Shoppe
Fourth graders examine the dairy industry. In this Social Studies lesson, 4th graders investigate the various products made from milk. Students look at entrepreneurship and independent farmers in the dairy industry.
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The Rise of U.S. Business and Industry
Eleventh graders focus on the rise of American business and industry and how it led into the response by labor forces that helped to shape the present situation of United States business, government, and working conditions.
3C Skills Collaborative
Skill Twenty: Sell Successfully
"Selling is important in all professions because it involves synthesizing information and persuading people." Rather than using this as a lesson on how to sell a product, this resource might best be used as an inquiry into what goes into...
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Franchise Opportunity
Students identify and evaluate franchise as a business opportunity. Lesson is culminating project in a business course.
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The Entrepreneur of the Year
Students investigate entrepreneurship as it relates to careers. In this career planning lesson, students create goals leading up to their career of choice. They identify the characteristics necessary ti be successful in the business world.
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Saucony CEO Puts His Foot Down on Loyalty
Learners explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship activity, students read an article about a small shoe company who manages to compete with the show giants. Learners discuss why this small shoe company has found...
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Arkansas History
Students research Arkansas history and its early entrepreneurs. In this Arkansas lesson plan, students read about and discuss the lives of Arkansas citizens and play a mock baseball game.
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"Let's Make Some Money"
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to Kindergartners.
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Financial Literacy - Careers and Income
Students practice filling out job applications, create resumes, simulate hiring process, discuss benefits offered to employees, hidden costs of a job, and the risks and rewards of being an entrepreneur or self-employed.
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Clothes from Grain: A Miracle or a Problem?
Learners read fables about entrepreneurs who buy grain and turn it into clothing, or resell the grain and use the proceeds to import clothing. They use the fables to determine why people trade, and to analyze costs and benefits of trade...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: Getting Down To Business: Get Organized
Students examine the various business structures and select the best one to use in a art business plan that they have developed. They compare the benefits and risks of each business structure then discuss in small groups the merits of...
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The Artist as Entrepreneur: Getting Down to Business: What's My Market?
Students create a marketing plan for their artwork by analyzing their potential customers. They consider the type of art they wish to produce, the price range for the art and the type of competition that they face then develop a low...
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Intellectual/Social/Cultural Movements: 1870s - 1914 (5)
For this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 12 matching questions regarding late 1870's-1914 America. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Artist as Entrepreneur
Students compare the entrepreneurial process in business and in the art world. They create a scenario of a business opportunity and solution based on a product from a catalog then they research how several successful artists have found...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: Getting Down To Business - Next Steps
Students create a business plan that could be developed for their current body of art work. They carefully analyze how their art work could be expanded and identify the types of training they need to expand their work into marketable areas.
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What are My Resources?
Learners examine their own human resources and compare them to the characteristics that entrepreneurs tend to exhibit. They discuss ways to further develop these characteristics.
K12 Reader
Gold Rush Boomtowns
The California Gold Rush sparked many people to try for their fortunes and led to the formation of some well-known California cities. Have your class read about the changes that happened and then respond to the five included questions.
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: You Say Tomato, I See Tomato
High schoolers compare phone negotiations with in person negotiations to identify the non-verbal communication that is produced in face-to-face meetings. They practice forms of non-verbal communication by reciting the alphabet and...
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Hometown Heroes
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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The Business of Credit
Students explore the concept of credit. In this credit lesson, students discuss the necessities to start-up a new business. Students discuss cost of a new business, loans, and credit. Students create their own business and apply what...