Is it curiosity or mischief? Sometimes, it’s both! Curiosity naturally involves testing and refining mental models. When creating our entrepreneurial learning programs, we focus on crafting lessons that cultivate curiosity and reward it.
In this activity, you’ll build a home using everyday materials for a worm whose house has flooded. But what does building a worm home have to do with entrepreneurship? You’ll be inspired to use empathy to consider the worm’s needs. As you work, you’ll be creative, adaptable, and resourceful to build a home with ordinary…
Fostering entrepreneurial learning environments is key to championing youth entrepreneurship. As youth entrepreneurship instructors, we should serve as mentors, guides, facilitators and champions. Entrepreneurship is not black and white. It is not 2 + 2 = 4. Many times, even as the instructor, you won’t know the answer! Here are a few tips to frame…
Teaching entrepreneurship to girls is a great way to help them learn to overcome challenges and think in new ways. Learn more with our tips!
Entrepreneurs don’t always know what challenges they will face. They have to make changes when problems come up and find new ways to make their ideas work. This is called adaptability.
Entrepreneurs come up with clever solutions to challenges. This sometimes means using unlikely materials or trying unique solutions. We call this resourcefulness.
Our list of 11 Free Resources for Learning Pods is a versatile collection of activities for grades K-12. Tailored for small group settings, these hands-on learning experiences include entrepreneurial projects and STEM activities, perfect for inspiring creativity and collaboration. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or facilitator, explore these resources to enhance your teaching strategies and nurture the next generation of innovators.
Explore 14 innovative student grouping strategies designed to foster collaboration and creativity in the classroom. Whether you’re an educator looking to mix things up or searching for new ways to engage students, VentureLab’s guide offers adaptable methods for various learning environments. Discover how these techniques can be a part of creating the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers.
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about and coming up with creative solutions to problems. We call this problem solving!
Entrepreneurs use their creativity to ask questions and seek new ways of learning and doing. We call this curiosity!
Learn how one young student took action using empathy and how you can get better at identifying and solving problems in your community!
Entrepreneurs use their imaginations and try to think in new ways. We call this creativity!
Entrepreneurs observe, identify, and act to solve problems. They get a lot of ideas for new businesses by thinking about how they could change things and how they could make life better for people. We call this opportunity seeking!
In this Observation Walk activity, students use their five senses and focus on what’s going on around them, then make inferences to find opportunities and offer creative solutions.
Think outside the box to find creative solutions to challenges with reverse brainstorming! This isn’t your normal brainstorming technique: instead of solving a problem, you make it worse!
Entrepreneurs are hopeful about their ideas and making changes that help others. We call this optimism. This week’s activities help show us how optimism helps us succeed!
We’re on a mission to create the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers by making entrepreneurship education accessible to ALL youth.
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