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
Free Entrepreneurship Education Resources
Ignite entrepreneurial thinking with VentureLab’s free entrepreneurship education resources! Discover hands-on activities, downloads and printables, and ESTEAM-based challenges that empower students of all ages to develop essential skills, think critically, and collaborate effectively.
Elevate your teaching and help shape the next generation of diverse innovators with these free entrepreneurship education resources. Dive into our collection of inspiring, engaging, and free educational tools!
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
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
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
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
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
Help Them “Scamper” To Creativity
In these last few posts, I’ve been providing a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. So far, these have included letting them embrace failure,
April 10, 2018
Allowing Girls The Freedom to Create
There aren’t many experiences that take place in a conventional school in which there are no grades, no penalties for not following rules, no possibility
March 2, 2018