Free Activity: Pitch Game (Remote Learning Friendly!)
Help students think like entrepreneurs with this fun, free, and practical pitching activity updated with remote learning in mind!
May 14, 2020
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VentureLab Champion Maggie Miller brings entrepreneurship remote
Using VentureLab curriculum, Maggie Miller teaches her 10-year-old nephew virtually! She’s adjusted lessons to work with online learning in a new way.
May 11, 2020
Observation, Empathy & Problem Solving Activity
In this activity, students will practice actively observing and empathizing while viewing an image. They will then come up with a problem, as well as a product or service that might help solve that problem. Then it will be their turn to try it on their own!
April 28, 2020
Growth Mindset with the VentureLab Workbook
This week’s activities help show us how our brains can grow with practice and persistence!
April 20, 2020
Learn Observation vs. Inference with this Entrepreneurship Activity
Is the glass half empty or half full? Thinking about the answers to this question teaches us about how entrepreneurs use observation and inference.
April 16, 2020
Learn About Yourself with the VentureLab Workbook
This week’s activities inspire us to think about what motivates us and our strengths.
April 13, 2020
Take a Peek at the Observation Challenge
The observation challenge asks us to complete a simple observation task but reveals a much bigger surprise about our ability to actively take in the world around us!
April 7, 2020
Intro to Entrepreneurship with the VentureLab Workbook
The Idea Journal is a place for youth to show their creativity outwardly: doodle, decorate, color, and design the Idea Journal any way you like.
April 6, 2020
How to Make and Use an Idea Journal
The Idea Journal is a place for youth to show their creativity outwardly: doodle, decorate, color, and design the Idea Journal any way you like.
March 31, 2020
Get Creative with the Wacky Inventions Game
Explore the world of inventions with our engaging ‘Wacky Inventions Game’ worksheet. This printable activity is designed to spark creativity and enhance problem-solving skills among students. Download and ignite the spirit of innovation in your classroom today!
March 23, 2020
Imagination Activity to Inspire Creativity and Play
This activity is a fun and silly improvisation game designed to create a safe learning space and inspire creative thinking. Participants will take an ordinary object and change it into ANYTHING they can think of!
March 19, 2020
Free Entrepreneurial Mindsets and Skills Poster
This activity will get students straight into generating solutions for a user or client’s problems by creating a prototype.
March 12, 2020
Learning the VentureLab Way: Raising Questions and Inspiring Curiosity
When you encourage children’s curiosity, you’re actually enabling learning at a profound level. Take the case of Sue Kolby, a single mother: “My friend salvaged
January 28, 2020
Free Activity: Prototyping Challenge
This activity will get students straight into generating solutions for a user or client’s problems by creating a prototype.
January 21, 2020
VentureLab Champion Tina Belden encourages creativity in the classroom
Using VentureLab curriculum has allowed Tina’s students to take on an essential entrepreneurial belief: “I can be as creative as I want and it’s not wrong.”
January 13, 2020
Fostering Frontiers of Knowledge in Youth with a Curiosity and Growth Mindset
What if you don’t have the answers to a child’s questions? What if you can’t even begin to guess? That’s okay. In fact, it may be even better for a child’s development! VentureLab explores how encouraging curiosity and a growth mindset in children can open the frontiers of knowledge and foster innovative thinking.
January 5, 2020