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.
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Learn About Yourself with the VentureLab Workbook
This week’s activities inspire us to think about what motivates us and our strengths.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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 a flat panel television that someone had left beside a dumpster and brought it over to me,” she said, thinking her kids might enjoy having a larger monitor for TV…
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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.”
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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.
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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. At VentureLab, we encourage children to banish any fear of failure, any lingering notions of their own “weaknesses,” any pessimistic preconceptions, and any subconscious limitations that hold them back. These…
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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 failure is a tool for discovery? At VentureLab, we’ve spoken with students about how they perceive failure. In doing so, students learn that failure has a vocabulary all its own,…
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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.
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How to Build Grit In Youth
Resilience and Perseverance 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, a tendency to maintain interest and stay on task in the face of obstacles. Grit means not enabling a pattern or habit of abandoning tasks just for the…
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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.
