Pillars of Student Success |
Entrepreneurship: Moderate |
Financial Literacy: Moderate |
Work Readiness: Moderate |
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Program Implementation | Program Grade-Level |
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JA-AfterSchool | Grades 6-8 |
Program Concepts | Program Skills |
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Advertising, Apprentice, Auction, Auctioneer, Be creative and innovative, Believe in yourself, Bid, Business, Business plan, Civic responsibility, Customer, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur profile, Fill a need, Know your customer and product, Market, Marketing, Profit, Self-taught, Social entrepreneur | Active-listening, Analyzing information, Brainstorming, Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Decision making, Deductive reasoning, Estimating, Following directions, Group work, Interpreting information, Measuring, Money management, Oral and written communication, Problem solving, Self-assessment. |
Working in groups, students play the E-Quiz Game Show. They begin to identify entrepreneurial characteristics they possess by learning about the lives of entrepreneurs both past and present.
Students work in groups to complete a blueprint for a teen club. They identify the first entrepreneurial characteristic, "Fill a Need," by considering customer needs and brainstorming product design. Students begin to identify the skills and knowledge needed to start a business.
Working in groups, students recognize the second entrepreneurial characteristic, "Know Your Customer and Product." Students discover ways to market specific products to the appropriate customers.
Students participate in an auction designed to highlight creative and innovative entrepreneurs and their businesses.
By analyzing current examples of social entrepreneurs, students identify businesses they can start. They examine ways entrepreneurs use the four entrepreneurial characteristics to develop their business plans.
Session Six: Celebrate Entrepreneurs!
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