Entrepreneurship+Teaching+Activities

After you have explored the Entrepreneurship Website, this space will be used for each of you to share the teaching idea that you found interesting and would like to share with your classmates; the format should follow the example below.

__Dr. DeBates__ - **[|You're the Boss Activity]** from the Junior Achievement website; I was directed to this link from the [|Mind Your Own Biz] website found on the handout.

Description of Activity: Students are asked to investigate the leadership role entrepreneurs must take as they hire or fire employees for their new business ventures. As an entrepreneur, you are the boss and therefore you determine reasons for keeping or firing an employee based on the situation and the circumstances surrounding it. Students work in small groups to discuss ethical solutions to problems they are encountering with their employees: the significance of ethics when faced with challenging employee issues. The students are asked to brainstorm both reasons why or circumstances that might lead them to decide to keep the employee AND those that might lead them to fire the employee.

Suggestions for Using this Activity/Recommendations: The lesson is very thorough and easy to follow. I would use this in a unit on ethical decision making. It could apply to other work-based or career courses as well as entrepreneurship. The teacher could develop additional case studies or ask students to develop case studies. Students would need to be familiar with what ethics are and guidelines for ethical decision-making.

__Contrella Peterson__ -
 * Entrepreneurship – An Alternate Career Choice – Lesson** from the Student Lessons section at the **Work-Based Learning Connections** website I found while conducting my Internet search for the work-based learning concept map assignment.

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Students are asked to complete seven on-line activities including watching video clips from entrepreneurs, a quiz titled “Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business,” an article from Newsweek on the 2007 Best Young Entrepreneurs, questions to conduct an interview with a local entrepreneur, and a reflection piece. There is an online guide available to be printed for the students to answer as they complete each activity. ======

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The lesson is very easy to follow and student-directed, but the students would need computer access to complete the activity. I would use this lesson in a career unit with my Single Survival class of junior and seniors. In addition I would need to provide an alternate means to view the two YouTube video clips as these would not pass our school filter. ======

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__Deni Amundson []__ ====== Students will learn about supply, demand, price, competition, and entrepreneurial skills in this lesson. They will put what they learned into action by creating an ice cream stand, to complete with other stands in the classroom.

Megan Lahr - [|Make It Your Own Business]. I was directed to it through the [|Mind Your Own Business] website found on the handout. Description of Activity - Students will start by completing a Entrepreneurial Characteristic Interest Inventory. Then inventory can be followed by 4 different group activities. The activites are entitled Starting Your Business, Funding Options for Your Business, Managing Your Business, and Marketing Your Business. The activities are in worksheet format and can be completed with using the U.S. Small Business Administration's Teen Business Link at []. The worksheets tell the students which sections of the teen business page they need to enter in order to better understand and answer the questions.

Suggestions for Using this Activity/Recommendations: Pair groups in a way such that they are researching a topic of their interest. Have good internet access, so the students are able to look at the teen business link while working together. The activities are very simple, the students work together to complete a series of important entrepreneurial question. The could be changed for each different section to keep the students interest, or the project could be stretched so it is not all completed in one lump sum.

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Franchise Opportunity from []. I found this website while conducting an Internet search for entrepreneurship lesson plans.======

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This activity will allow students to evaluate a franchise. It would be done after a unit on franchising in a finance class. Students will be given a direction sheet and allowed access to the internet. Students are able to look closer into franchises and make educated decisions based on the information they have learned and on the information they look deeper into. By======

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I feel this lesson is easy to follow and allows a teacher to build to the questions presented. It would be a good decision for students to have background information on franchises and use this lesson plan at the end of the unit as a project students are able to work on.======

Business Stimulation Start-Up Activity from []. I found this website while I was searching for entrepreneurship lesson plans.
 * Kristin Clasen**

This activity is used to explore how much it takes to start an actual business. This activity is designed to give students a real experience in starting a business while they are learning about the skills and planning their own business.
 * Description of Activity:**

The tasks can be divided into work for three teams (Management Team, Marketing Team, and Finance Team). Also there are tasks for the entire class that will integrate the decisions of the whole business team. You can organize one, two, or three businesses. It is more competitive if there is more than one business.
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This activity was very detailed and as a teacher you would be able to follow it easily. It is also very flexible, so if you needed to make changes it would be very easy to make them.

__Kelsey Kummer-__ The Ice Cream Stand from the EconEdLink website; I was directed to this link from the Entreprenurship website handout. The link is []

Description of Activity: Students learn the importance of supply and demand, competition, and other entrepreneur skills necessary to run a small business. Students work in groups to develop a successful ice cream stand, but do not have all the necessary supplies to make the milkshakes and sundaes correctly. They need to cooperate and compete with other groups to buy and sell products they need to sell to adults and teachers that visit the class.

Suggestions for Using this Activity/ Recommendations: This lesson plan is well-developed and easy to follow. The most difficult part would be the preparation and making sure the students understand the basic concepts prior to starting the project. This would take a minimum of two class periods and possibly more. The best part about this project is that teachers can adapt it for any age group or any length of time by adding more issues on top of the current ones the small business face. If I were to do this, I would substitute ice cream for frozen yogurt or another healthier choice and connect the project to the next lesson on nutrition.