Entrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor Project
An economics educator teaches his students to be smart money managers and businesspeople.
by Edutopia Staff
Economics teacher Greg Fisher finds that the best way to teach financial literacy is to help students actually create their own business. He uses the following materials (presented here as PDFs) in his senior-year course at the California Academy of Math and Science, in Carson, California:
Overviews
Successful Investor Project Overview
Classroom Handouts
Senior Class Project: Business Plan
Rubrics
Final Group-Presentation Grading Guide
Business Convention Judge's Worksheet
Activity Sheets
Activity: Identifying Strong Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Activity: Describe Your Business Opportunity
Activity: Interests as Possible Business Opportunities
Activity: Brainstorming for Business Ideas
Activity: Getting the Feel of Your Business
Classroom Presentation
External Project Presentation
Successful Investor presentation
This article originally published on 10/2/2008
Financial Literacy: Special Report
Table of Contents
- Financial Literacy: Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
- The Bucks Start Here: A Hands-On Approach to Personal Finance
- How to Teach the Soft Side of Business
- Take It to the Bank: Students Learn to Manage Their Money
- Video: Dollars and Sense: Kids Invest in Funds -- and Their Own Future
- Money Corps: Finance Experts as Guest Teachers
- Entrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor Project
- Money Lessons: A Guide to Financial-Literacy Resources
- Poll: Should schools make financial education a graduation requirement?
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