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On-Demand Webinar

Empowering Young Entrepreneurs: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset Across Grades 6-12 Subjects

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Cheryl Ayers
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Objective

In this webinar teachers will be able to:

  • Understand research-based reasons to integrate entrepreneurship education across grades and core academic subjects as well as economics and personal finance.
  • Review basic entrepreneurship concepts, skills, and mindsets.
  • Practice thinking like an entrepreneur.
  • Identify age-appropriate, classroom-ready grades 6-12 entrepreneurship resources.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Budgeting, Comparative Advantage, Competition, Consumers, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Systems, Elasticity of Demand, Employment and Unemployment, Entrepreneurs, Financial Investments, GDP, Goods and Services, Human Capital, Incentives, Income, Inflation, Insurance, Market Structures, Markets and Prices, Money, Opportunity Cost, Price Ceilings and Floors, Producers, Productive Resources, Productivity, Profit, Property Rights, Risk and Return, Saving, Scarcity, Supply, Taxes, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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Description

Join us for this webinar on how to enhance grades 6-12 instruction across subjects by cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in students. After briefly setting the stage with research-based reasons to teach entrepreneurship, participants practice “thinking like an entrepreneur.” Participants also explore ways to use entrepreneurship concepts, skills, and mindsets as real-world contexts for teaching math, English, science, social studies, economics, and personal finance while simultaneously increasing student engagement and achievement. Recommended age-appropriate, classroom-ready, grades 6-12 entrepreneurship resources included (e.g., videos, hands-on lessons, chapter books, articles, etc.).

 

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Subjects:
Business,Economics,Other,Social Studies,Math,Personal Finance

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