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: 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: How
Discover practical ways to integrate the Foundational Value Win-Win into your Youth Entrepreneurs activities. …
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…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: What’s in a Handshake?
For most of us adults, a handshake is simple, easy, and it comes naturally. That is not the case for most of our students. And unfortunately, there are a lot of ways…
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: A Decade of Entrepreneurs
The Decade of Entrepreneurship activity affords your students the opportunity to research an entire decade worth of entrepreneurs and share that knowledge with
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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…
lesson: Foundational Values: How To Guide
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…
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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