Innovative Learning Starts with You
Passion Mandatory. Experience not necessary.
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Differentiated grade bands. We offer differentiated, age-appropriate curriculum separated into lower elementary (grades 1-2), upper elementary (grades 3-5), and middle/high school (grades 6-12)!
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A course in a box! All the lesson planning is done for you. Each lesson features detailed preparation, step-by-step instructions, teaching tips, and all the slides and handouts.
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Flexible implementation. Our entrepreneurial curriculum features 90 minute lessons with activities that can be taught sequentially or plugged into existing coursework, after-school (OST) programs, or camps.
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Cross-curricular connections. Entrepreneurship demands a varied skillset. Lessons bring to life STEAM, maker, and design thinking concepts under the umbrella of entrepreneurship, especially for girls!
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21st century skills made accessible. Critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, communication and collaboration are explicitly taught. Guided reflections after each activity deepen understanding.
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Curriculum designed with girls in mind. Lessons emphasize real-world connections and problem-solving for a cause. Whenever possible, we use real-life examples of female entrepreneurs.
Choose how you’d like to use VentureLab curriculum to get started:
Lite
(No cost)
Usable for commercial/paid programs
Introductory lessons from grades across our curriculum
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Nonprofit
(No cost)
Non-profit and non-commercial use only (no paid programs)
Full VentureLab curriculum across all three grade bands
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Access to VentureLab Champions Facebook Group
Explorer
($250/yr)
Usable for commercial/paid programs
One full curriculum grade band of your choice
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Access to VentureLab Champions Facebook Group
Tips and tricks emails
Adventurer
($500/yr)
Usable for commercial/paid programs
Two full curriculum grade bands of your choice
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Access to VentureLab Champions Facebook Group
Tips and tricks emails
Innovator
($650/yr)
Usable for commercial/paid programs
Full VentureLab curriculum across all three grade bands
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Access to VentureLab Champions Facebook Group
Tips and tricks emails
Changemaker
($1000/yr)
Usable for commercial/paid programs
Full VentureLab curriculum across all three grade bands
Slides, handouts, and more to support each lesson
Access to VentureLab Champions Facebook Group
Tips and tricks emails
45-minute consultation with entrepreneurial education and training expert
What Students Gain
Entrepreneurial Skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Introduction to business
- Product creation and new inventions
- Financial literacy and budgeting
Student Achievement
- Creative and critical thinking
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Leadership skills and public speaking skills
- Lateral and higher-order thinking
Postsecondary readiness
- 21st Century Career Skills: product ideation, marketing research, technology
- Sparks interests in attending college
- Career ideation
Ways to Teach
Our mission is to make entrepreneurial learning accessible.
People of all backgrounds can facilitate a VentureLab program and many of our facilitators don’t have experience teaching entrepreneurship. To get started, all you need is a space to accommodate students and internet to access our ebooks (or printed copies of our lessons).
