Search Results for: Entrepreneurship

Teach your students about the benefits of being an entrepreneur. In this video a young woman starts her own business cleaning garages and does so well that she is able to expand her business. CEE's Entrepreneurship Economics publication introduces students to entrepreneurship through a reso…

Teach your students about developing a business plan. In this video a young man uses a business plan to determine where he should sell his t-shirts, who will buy them, and how much profit he will make. CEE's Entrepreneurship Economics publication introduces students to entrepreneurship th…

This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

This lesson illustrates the differences between inventions and innovations. It discusses what entrepreneurs are and their role with inventions and innovations.

Students study historic objects, photographs and documents, research influential members of the African American community and role-play a dinner party at Walker’s home in this lesson developed by the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in collaboration with the National Park Service.

In this economics and personal finance book, an inexperienced royal learns a valuable lesson about reading the fine print.

What makes something worth marketing? This lesson focuses on the distinction between marketing a new product or licensing it to someone else to market.

In this economics lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that reinforces the concepts of specialists/entrepreneurs, workers, capital resources, and products. 

Students listen to the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop, about an African American barber who, despite significant setbacks, saves enough money to buy his own barbershop. From the story, students learn about saving, savings goals, opportunity cost, and segregation. The students participate in …

Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, shares tips for creating a mini-economy in the elementary school classroom. As Shanan says in the video, "things that you could never stage in a lesson happen" when your students are responsible for managing…