Students will learn about Lunsord Lane and the accomplishments he had a a slave and a freed black man.
Students learn about business and economics in the free enterprise system focusing on individuals, such as Milton Hershey, Wallace Amos, and Sam Walton.
This resource contains lesson activities and assessments on entrepreneurship.
Higher-level students will be divided into small groups so that they may work collaboratively with their peers to research (even possibly interview via Skype or e-mail) a particular entrepreneur of NC. Students will draw from “a hat” the entrepreneur who they will research, and they will also draw from “a hat” the type of project that they will complete on the entrepreneur to reveal what they have learned. Then after exploring how entrepreneurs have become entrepreneurs, students will work on a small entrepreneur fair for their class/school. They will develop a product to sell at the fair. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
Students will learn about the creation of Food Lion grocery stores and the policies which he used to create the successful buisness.
In this video clip, the Karimkhani sisters share how they became entrepreneurs by doing something they love.
In this video clip, learn about a social entrepreneur who raised money for playground equipment.
In this video clip, learn about a youth who started a company producing and selling baseball bats.