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
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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
Growth Mindset: Your Brain Can Change!
Your brain can change. It can grow. It can form new neural pathways. You can develop new abilities to do things you never thought possible.
December 20, 2019
Free Activity: SCAMPER A Holiday Decoration
SCAMPER asks students to look at their favorite holiday decoration in a new way. The result: a prototype or model of a new, improved decoration.
December 11, 2019
Making Failure a Tool for Discovery
How do you speak to your children and students about failure? Do you create an environment and engage in a dialogue with your children where
December 2, 2019
Free Resource: This Is Not…
This activity is an improvisation game where students take an ordinary object and transform it into ANYTHING they can think of, either real or imaginary.
November 19, 2019
The Importance of Teaching Grit
Grit is an essential element of the entrepreneurial mindset. It has two parts. One is resilience, a positive response to failure or adversity. The other is perseverance,
November 18, 2019
Sing along to the Entrepreneur Song!
It’s never too early to start giving kids the gift of language and the vocabulary they need to think about themselves and the world around them! VentureLab created the Entrepreneur Song as a fun and meaningful way to give students access to the vocabulary around entrepreneurial learning and thinking.
March 12, 2019
Free Activity: Pitch Game
We often hear from teachers that they would love to incorporate entrepreneurial learning into their classes but have limited time. We wanted to give you a quick, easy way to introduce the entrepreneurial process and the associated mindsets and skills.
October 11, 2018
Start Them Young
In these recent posts in which I’ve offered tips on raising entrepreneurial girls, I’ve suggested ways to foster their curiosity, encourage girls to remain idealistic
April 17, 2018