lesson: FV: Win-Win Focus
The Youth Entrepreneurs value “Be principled” teaches students integrity, respect and toleration. Approaching life and work with principles leads to long-term success. In …
video: How
Discover practical ways to integrate the Foundational Value Win-Win into your Youth Entrepreneurs activities. …
video: Why
Understand why Foundational Value Win-Win is key both inside and outside the classroom for your students. …
video: What
At Youth Entrepreneurs, the principles that guide behavior are called Foundational Values. These YE values are central to our curriculum and significant in helping our student…
video: Debrief
The Paper Airplanes Game helps students learn concepts like scarcity, opportunity cost and competition. And it’s a chance to coach students in the Foundational Values of sou…
lesson: Three-Legged Stool
In this lesson students will learn about the three-legged stool. The three-legged stool is an analogy for three things all businesses need to sustain long-term success. All bu…
lesson: Negotiating Game
Negotiating skills can be important to the success in the marketplace of business owners and consumers. In The Negotiating Game students will engage in buying and selling, m…
lesson: PIT – Just the Basics
Pit is a fast-paced card game designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. We use the game as a way for students to learn about trade and simple negotia…
lesson: Tennis Ball Factory
This experiment uses student participation to teach the concept of diminishing marginal returns. Students are told they will be the employees in a widget factory. Th…
lesson: Money Bowl
Money Bowl provides an applicable example of greed while exploring the effects of communication and trust within a group.
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lesson: Towers
Towers is a game that demonstrates the importance of both doing business profitably and also doing it “the right way.” After completing Towers, students better u…
lesson: 10 Economic Principles
Youth Entrepreneurs follows ten economic principles that we believe are crucial for students to understand in pursuing their entrepreneurial ventures. In tandem with our Found…
lesson: Cowboy Inkblot and Find the Numbers
This lesson is all about vision and sharing knowledge. It is important that any group, organization or business communicates their vision, has a shared vision, and s…
lesson: Going Bananas
This lesson will help your students understand how markets work by engaging them in an activity where the price of a product is determined by buyers and sellers voluntarily tr…
lesson: Zoom
Zoom illustrates the costs and barriers to exchanging needed knowledge and information in a fun, interactive way.
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lesson: Lego COGS Activity
The Lego Cost of Goods Sold Activity provides students the opportunity to calculate the cost of goods sold for a prototype they designed. The activity also allows students to …
lesson: Ticket Out
There are many strategies for checking for student understanding of class material. One quick, easy and effective strategy is the “ticket out the door”. Students need to r…
lesson: Back of the Napkin
Hands on activities are crucial for learning in the Youth Entrepreneurs classroom. Most students learn values and concepts through experience better than through lecture. Back…
lesson: Human Treasure Hunt
This is an activity to help your students get to know one another better and practice their soft skills.
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lesson: Marshmallow Towers
Marshmallow Towers is an activity that allows your students to gain a basic understanding of different business structures. Students, working in groups, are randomly…
