Entrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor Project
Economics teacher Greg Fisher finds that the best way to teach financial literacy is to help students actually create their own business [1]. 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 [2]
Curriculum Guide [3]
Classroom Handouts
Financial-Vocabulary Glossary [4]
Senior Class Project: Business Plan [6]
Rubrics
Business-Convention Rubric [8]
Final Group-Presentation Grading Guide [10]
Business Convention Judge's Worksheet [11]
Activity Sheets
Activity: Identifying Strong Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Opportunity [12]
Activity: Describe Your Business Opportunity [13]
Activity: Interests as Possible Business Opportunities [14]
Activity: Brainstorming for Business Ideas [15]
Activity: Getting the Feel of Your Business [16]
Classroom Presentation
Entrepreneurship presentation [17]
External Project Presentation
Links:
[1] http://www.edutopia.org/financial literacy
[2] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-overview.pdf
[3] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-curriculum.pdf
[4] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-vocabulary.pdf
[5] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-outline.pdf
[6] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-project.pdf
[7] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-problem.pdf
[8] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-convention.pdf
[9] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-rubric.pdf
[10] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-econ-guide.pdf
[11] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-judging.pdf
[12] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-identifying.pdf
[13] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-opportunity.pdf
[14] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-interests.pdf
[15] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-brainstorming.pdf
[16] http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-investor-project-slogan.pdf
[17] http://www.edutopia.org/ppt/edutopia-investor-project-entrepreneurship.ppt.htm
[18] http://www.edutopia.org/ppt/edutopia-investor-project-investor.ppt.htm