Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Doing Business in Afghanistan
In May 2002, delegates from governments, international companies, and financial institutions met at a United Nations conference in Tehran to discuss the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's officials say that to create a viable...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Famous Entrepreneur Scavenger Hunt
This lesson will help students learn about entrepreneurs in today's society and how they got started in the world of business and became successful at it. This lesson reinforces textbook chapters on the history of entrepreneurship and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Entrepreneurship
In this lesson, students become entrepreneurs and they will create a community of businesses by selling goods and services for profit. This lesson requires students to work in groups. Each group will have its own business to develop....
Other
U.s. Scouting Service Project: Merit Badge: Entrepreneurship
This site provides an outline for the entrepreneur to follow when thinking about starting a business.
Other
Business Week: Maggie Walker: A Rich Legacy for the Black Woman Entrepreneur
Learn about this famous African American entrepreneur and how she rose to success in the world of banking.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Our Business
Students (working with a partner) will create a business. This project can be used at the end of the year as a major project or divided up into smaller lessons. Project incorporates all of the content standards.
Lectric Law Library
'Lectric Law Library: Small Business and the Sec
This site covers information pertaining to small businesses and the SEC. Learn about various topics including how to make a small business go public.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Paul Allen
From an exhibit of hedcuts from the Wall Street Journal. Two dot-drawings of Paul Allen accompany a biography of this computer entrepreneur.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
Other
Business Owners' Idea Cafe
Have you ever wanted to start your own business? The Idea Cafe provides a variety of resources to assist you in taking the first steps towards business ownership.
Genius Brands International
Secret Millionaires Club: Webisode Activities
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...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Bill Gates
A hedcut of Bill Gates from the Wall Street Journal along with a brief account of his development of Microsoft Corporation.
Other
Small Business Association: Is Entrepreneurship for You?
In the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Startup Kit, this section walks you through the characteristics required to be an entrepreneur. It concludes with the advantages of owning your own business.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Outlook on Money: Growing a Business
Meet a vegetable farmer from Hooksett, NH, who shares his experiences as a small business owner. Gives tips and advice for starting a business and for how to take advantage of helpful resources to pursue entrepreneurial dreams. Includes...
Biz Move
Biz Move: Free Home Based Business Plan Sample
This Bizmove site contains information on starting a business at home, including an "entrepreneurial personality" self-test and basic budget formation.
Other
The Entrepreneur's Mind
Web resource that presents an array of real-life stories and advice from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts on the many different facets of entrepreneurship and emerging business.
Biz Move
Biz Move: What Business Should You Start
Discover the advantages and disadvantages of running your own business. This article also discusses characteristics of an entrepreneur and tips on choosing a business.
Other
National Association of Women Business Owners
Are you interested in learning about women business owners? The NAWBO organization has develope a variety of resources for women-owned businesses.
Other
Entrepreneur Magazine: The Legal Ins and Outs of Forming a Partnership
A description of general and limited partnerships, advantages and disadvantages of each, and questions that need to be answered as a partnership is formed.
Other
Biz Kids: Dollar a Glass Game
Players use business strategy to see how much money they can earn by making and selling lemonade.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Real Origin of the Franchise
In this video lesson, Sir Harold Evans describes the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper, a beauty salon owner who invented franchising, one of the most successful business models today. [5:49]
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.
Other
Entrepreneur Network: Business Recordkeeping: Source Documents
This page describes the importance of source documents and how to handle them.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash believed in women's talents. Read about the development of her successful cosmetics company and see a hedcut from an exhibit of these dot drawings in the Wall Street Journal.