Learning the 4 Brainstorming Rules and Making a Pig Fly
Brainstorming is a process you can get better at with practice! Learn about the four rules of brainstorming and apply them to a fun challenge: making a pig fly.
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Print Your Own VentureLab Mindset Stickers!
Celebrating these mindsets as you spot them is a great way to help youth cultivate entrepreneurial thinking. At VentureLab, we’ve found a fun and easy way to recognize and celebrate: stickers!
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Mindset of the Month: Problem Solving
Entrepreneurs go looking for trouble, but not in the way you’re thinking. They are actively looking for opportunities to invent new ways of doing things or improve upon what already exists. This type of problem solving is PROactive. Our mindset of the month is problem solving: proactively developing creative solutions to the problems around you….
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Starting with a Feather: Free-Range Curiosity (Excerpt from VentureGirls)
Curiosity can inspire incredible new ideas, and practicing curiosity doesn’t have to be done in a structured setting. For an example of everyday curiosity encouraged and explored, dive into this excerpt from VentureGirls, written by VentureLab’s founder, Dr. Luz Cristal Glangchai: A curious girl can be comfortable and confident in environments of uncertainty. She has…
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But Why? Curiosity Activity
Curiosity is an essential trait of entrepreneurs. At its most basic, curiosity can be as simple as asking “Why?” But you don’t have to stop with your first question! Sometimes the true answer requires asking “Why?” multiple times. The But Why? technique provides a framework for student curiosity that helps them discover underlying cause of…
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Mindset of the Month: Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness is being able and willing to “do more with less.” How do you inspire resourcefulness in your youth? Find out in this blog!
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Home School Resources: Teaching A Youth Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Looking for comprehensive Home School Resources: Teaching Youth Entrepreneurship Curriculum? VentureLab offers an array of tools, activities, and strategies tailored for homeschool educators. Empower your young learner with entrepreneurial skills, right from the comfort of home.
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Curiosity and ‘Creative Mischief’
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.
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Build a Worm Home for the Holidays
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…
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5 Tips for Fostering an Entrepreneurial Learning Environment
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…
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Tips for Empowering Learning Girls: Part I
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!
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3 Free Adaptability Activities
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.
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Get Resourceful with the VentureLab Workbook
Entrepreneurs come up with clever solutions to challenges. This sometimes means using unlikely materials or trying unique solutions. We call this resourcefulness.
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11 Free Youth Entrepreneurship Activities for Learning Pods
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.
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14 Fun Ways to Group Up Students
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.
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3 Free Activities to Practice Problem Solving
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about and coming up with creative solutions to problems. We call this problem solving!
