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Preparing a Business Plan to "Be Your Own Boss"

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Do your scholars strive to work for themselves some day? Help young entrepreneurs  create a business plan for an original idea and present it to a "board of directors." They complete online research (some links provided) and put together...
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Create Your Own Business!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Create a business and assess the costs of acquiring a business licenses and advertising. The class determines the name, location, business product to be sold and the best method to sell that product. A great way to understand the US...
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Entrepreneur Business Project

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders set up their own personal businesses. In this business lesson, 9th graders select business projects, set goals for their businesses, write business plans, and follow up on the plans after they carry them out.
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Entrepreneurship: How to Begin

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine and identify the rudiments of a business plan. They locate and use resources about business plans on Internet.
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Do I Have What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur - and is My Community Ready?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Discover the attributes of entrepreneurs and define what entrepreneurship is while examining data based on local businesses. Learners determine whether their community is supportive of entrepreneurs as they research economic development...
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Entrepreneurship: Will it Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Consider to possibility of starting a business as a way to examine the concept of entrepreneurship. Learners develop and analyze feasibility studies, marketing strategies, proposals, and local census data all needed when starting a small...
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Entrepreneurship: Planning to stay in business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write the last three sections of a business plan for their hypothetical business: the operation timetable, the start up costs, and the three-month projected statement.
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Making Money

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students form a company to see it they can create a product that can sell and make a profit for the company. Working in small groups, they create a business plan and gather the resources to make their product. Students market and sell...
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I Want To Be an Entrepreneur

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students define the word entrepreneur as they create a business. For this economics lesson, students understand the elements of creating a successful business and record them. Students create a commercial for their businesses.
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Cooking Lesson About Goods for Entrepreneur Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experience how businesses are started. In this goods and services lesson plan, 4th graders learn the story of an Indiana man who started his own chocolate business. Students watch a video about his life and discuss the...
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What is Entrepreneurship?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe the entrepreneurial process and how it relates to the economy. They work together in small groups to answer questions and participate in small business groups. They use the internet to gather information as well.
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BEGINNER LEVEL LESSON PLAN ANTICIPATORY SET

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are be able to analyze primary sources for evidence of American entrepreneurship during the early 20th century. They identify the attributes that helped George Eastman succeed as an entrepreneur and consider the role advertising...
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Entrepreneurs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore becoming entrepreneurs. For this career exploration lesson, students work in small groups to begin a new business that they will "build" from scratch as they learn what it takes to create a successful business by using...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: Getting Down To Business - Next Steps

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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 Do You Want to Sell?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how companies describe their products and services. They write business plans for companies based on their interests or needs.
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Kenan Fellows

Ready, Set, Save on Solar Energy Technology!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Does your class have a bright future in the solar energy industry? Science scholars take an in-depth look at what's new in solar technology. After completing research into the solar industry, participants create and market a product in...
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Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils discuss the motivation behind owning your own business. They plan a course of action to research the pros and cons of owning a business and then share their information with the rest of the class as a follow up activity.
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Starting Your Own Business

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read a book and complete several correlating activities to learn how to start their own business. For this economic and math lesson, 5th graders read the book The Toothpaste Millionaire. Students define the term...
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W. Atlee Burpee and the "Seeds" of Becoming an Entrepreneur

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the components of W. Atlee Burpee's mail-order business. For this Pennsylvanian history lesson, students analyze three business components for Burpee's mail-order business. Students create a plan implementing the...
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PBS

Could You Start a Business?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
High schoolers learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. For this instructional activity, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.
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Planning: To Get Enough Money for Food

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate methods that families use for planning meals and budgeting for them. In this nutrition lesson, students complete activities that require them to determine how much it costs to feed children at different ages....
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Franchise Opportunity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and evaluate franchise as a business opportunity. Lesson is culminating project in a business course.
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Getting Down to Business

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students develop a business plan to serve as a road map that ultimately help them achieve business goals. They create a description of the business and their work.
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Personality Traits for Entrepreneurs

For Students 11th - 12th
In this business/career worksheet, learners select the best multiple choice answer to 14 questions. There are no incorrect answers to this self-assessment worksheet.