Entrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor Project
An 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
Classroom Presentation
External Project Presentation
This article originally published on 10/2/2008
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