Entrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor ProjectAn economics educator teaches his students to be smart money managers and businesspeople.
An economics educator teaches his students to be smart money managers and businesspeople.
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
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Since I was a child I had a
Since I was a child I had a lot of ideas that could be put into practice and start a small business, but there were lots of steps needed to make. After I read some health information exchange tips, a nice idea came into my mind and now I have a very profitable business. A lot of students have possibilities to invest some money in a business, but few of them know the first steps needed in order to create a new business.