"Entrepreneurship is a way of life. It is a process by which we identify and act upon opportunity to create something of value under conditions of risk and considerable uncertainty. Entrepreneurs draw upon the personal characteristics, skills, attitudes and resources they possess or obtain to bring vision to life."
- Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development
Websites
- The Entrepreneur Test
www.liraz.com/webquiz.htm
Do you have what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur? This interactive quiz will help you assess your entrepreneur skills.
- Kauffman Foundation
www.kauffman.org/
A quality education is the foundation for self-sufficiency, preparing young people for success in college and in life. Many young adults will work in businesses started by entrepreneurs. Some will become entrepreneurs themselves, providing jobs and wealth for society.
- Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development
www.ceed.info
CEED - Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development Incorporated is an innovation centre that assists governments, organizations and communities in helping people achieve their potential through entrepreneurship. We help build "local capacity for local solutions." Our mission is to nurture entrepreneurship in people by acting as a catalyst in the areas of entrepreneurship education, research and program design, professional development and community entrepreneurship.
- Invent Now: National Inventors Hall of Fame
www.invent.org
Invent Now is a non-profit organization that brings to the world a wide range of programs, places, content and other experiences. Everything we offer is in service of our mission: to celebrate and foster the spirit and practice of invention - the innate human impulse that drives social and economic progress.
- "Inventors and Inventions," Enchanted Learning Software
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml
A dictionary of inventors and inventions sorted alphabetically, by time period and type.
- African American Inventors
teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/
A selected annotated bibliography on African American inventors and a list of selected films and videos.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Invention Dimension"
web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html
Invention Dimension is a fun-filled and at times wacky approach to making learning about invention exciting for the kid in all of us. Have some fun with our invention games and explore the wealth of inventor and invention resources, including inventor profiles and patent guidelines.
- Entrepreneur Career Guide
www.khake.com/page31.html
Want to be your own boss? Learn about starting your own business with the following Web resources. Lesson plans for business, economics, finance and law are also included.
- Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education: Entrepreneurship Classroom Activities
www.entre-ed.org/_teach/activits.htm
There are a great variety of ways to make entrepreneurship programs interesting and memorable through active participation in the learning process. We have provided some of these for teachers to use and adapt to their classroom needs.
- Entrepreneurship Curriculum Resources and Instructional Materials
www.cln.org/themes/entrepreneurship.html
This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of entrepreneurship. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.
- The Artist as Entrepreneur
www.umsl.edu/continuinged/artist/
This series of lessons, developed through a grant from the Coleman Foundation, is designed for high school students who are interested in learning more about art as a business.
Lessons
- Economic Spotter: Inventors and Entrepreneurs in the Industrial Age
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM330&page=teacher
The Industrial Age has also been called the Age of Edison. Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions and gave rise to three industries: electric utilities, phonograph and record companies, and the film industry. This lesson will help students see the relationship between inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs, and industries.
- I Can Be an Entrepreneur
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM476&page=teacher
Learners are given advice on how they can earn extra money by becoming an entrepreneur. After investigating several Web pages that offer examples of what other people their age have done to earn money, students identify three money-making ideas for themselves such as: considering what they would enjoy doing, what they do well, what people are willing to buy, the need to set a price that will be profitable and safety. In a follow-up activity, students are given tips on how they might advertise what they are selling. They prepare flyers to promote one of their ideas for earning money
- Improving on the Original
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM380&page=teacher
In this lesson, students will distinguish between inventions and innovations, describe circumstances that have led to some famous innovations in history and brainstorm innovations that could be made to existing products, name four methods of protecting the intellectual property of a new idea and explain why someone might license an invention or innovation rather than market it themselves.
- Online Mayhem I: Metallica Versus Napster
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM186&page=teacher
In this lesson, students will be able to identify the controversy associated with online music distribution, recognize copyright as a method for establishing property rights and connect downloading free music to the abstract concept of property rights and its effect on the entrepreneur.
- Peanuts, Pecans, and Peas, Please
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM363&page=teacher
In this lesson, students will answer the three basic economic questions, determine how standard of living is affected by technological change, and identify George Washington Carver as an inventor and an innovator.
- The Economics of Income: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=NN130&page=teacher
The purpose of this lesson is to help you explore the relationship between education and income. Income is earned from one's resources. Those resources might be natural resources (oil field, farm land), capital resources (man-made resources that are used in the production of goods and services: computers, factories, sewing machines), entrepreneurship (the ability to organize the other factors to produce goods or services or labor). Most people earn their income by selling their labor. The lesson will focus on the following question: "Why do some people earn more income from their labor than others?"
- The Entrepreneur in you?
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM264&page=teacher
Throughout this lesson students take note of the role of risk and incentives as factors found in all entrepreneurial pursuits. They will analyze, compare and evaluate personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. They will also develop a greater self-understanding as they determine if they have the traits found in successful entrepreneurs. Finally, students set goals, which will help them to become more entrepreneurial.
- US History: Inventors & Entrepreneurs
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM62&page=teacher
Students will learn the difference between inventors and entrepreneurs. From talking with adults they will learn some of the benefits inventors and entrepreneurs have provided for society in the last 40 years.
- What Makes an Entrepreneur?
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM228&page=teacher
Students will list characteristics associated with an entrepreneur, which will be used to create a definition of an entrepreneur. Using their definition students should be able to identify an entrepreneur and explain why the entrepreneur is an entrepreneur and explain the difference between an intrapreneur and an entrepreneur.
- Your American Dream! Entrepreneur Project
www.sitemason.com/files/c7bd1m/American_Dream_Project.pdf
Using the play "Death of a Salesman" as the vehicle for discussion, this project explores and examines entrepreneurship versus self-employment - working for yourself as opposed to working for someone else.
Online Simulations
- The Lemonade Stand
www.classbrain.com/cb_games/cb_gms_bag/lemonade.html
In this game, your goal will be to make as much money as you can within 30 days. To do this, you've decided to open your own business -- a lemonade stand! - Hot Shot Business
pbmcube.com/games/arcade-action/disney-hot-shot-business/l
An award-winning internet simulation game that gives millions of boys and girls the chance to run a business in Opportunity City at Disney.com. It is supported by the Kauffman Foundation.