Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Worksheets and Lesson Plans for Teachers
Classroom-ready lessons for teaching students how to start and run a business — choosing what to sell, marketing and advertising, knowing your target market, production, and measuring profit. Pairs perfectly with a classroom economy. Grades 4–12.
About This Section
This section gathers MoneyInstructor entrepreneurship and marketing lessons for teaching students how businesses really work — from deciding what to sell to marketing it and figuring out whether it turns a profit. Materials span upper-elementary through high school.
Students learn the building blocks of starting a venture: the principles of marketing and the four P’s, advertising and persuasion, identifying a target market, production and productivity, and the difference between gross and net profit. Each card shows the resource type and what’s included free vs. with a MoneyInstructor membership.
For Business & CTE Teachers
Marketing, business law and starting a business are all filed here. One page maps them, and every other high school business course, to the material on this site.
Featured Resources
Entrepreneurship lessons for the classroom
Printable lessons and worksheets from the MoneyInstructor entrepreneurship library — learn the marketing basics, then work through starting and running a business.
Marketing Basics
Basic Principles of Marketing
The four P’s — product, price, promotion, and place — and how a marketing plan is built from research.
Grades 8–12 · Lesson + Worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Advertising
Forms of advertising and the persuasion appeals advertisers use — then students plan their own ad campaign.
Grades 4–8 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Knowing Your Target Market
Why you can’t sell to everyone — students match products to the customers most likely to buy them.
Grades 4–8 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Selling Techniques
The seven-step sales process — planning, opening, questioning, presentation, objections, closing, follow-up.
Grades 9–12 · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Focus Groups & Pricing
Students use focus groups and a market survey to refine a product and set a price (MoneyInstructor-nomics).
Grades 3–8 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member WorksheetStarting & Running a Business
Running a Class Business Bazaar
A complete playbook for running a class business bazaar — the selling event where students sell their products and try to turn a profit. Printable lesson and activity.
Grades 3–8 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Fundraising
Students learn why charities fundraise, the main methods, and why donors give — then design their own fundraising appeal. Printable lesson and activity.
Grades 4–8 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Which Business to Choose
Product vs. service, the resources a business needs, and how studying your market shapes what to sell.
Grades 6–10 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Production and Productivity
Profit, competition, inventory, specialization, efficiency, and the assembly line — building a product to sell.
Grades 4–8 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Is My Business Successful?
Gross profit vs. net profit and profit margin — students analyze a real business and find ways to improve it.
Grades 6–9 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
How Much Will Your Business Cost?
Fixed vs. variable costs, totaling a business’s costs, and finding the price needed to make a profit.
Grades 9–12 · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Business Ownership Structures
Sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation — the advantages, disadvantages, and liability of each.
Grades 9–12 · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Starting a Part-Time Business
Realistic, low-cost part-time business ideas and a simple plan to start one.
Grades 6–12 · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Prototypes & Service Demos
Students design and prototype a product or service to sell at the classroom Bazaar (MoneyInstructor-nomics).
Grades 3–8 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Business Expenses & Licenses
The real costs of starting a business — licenses, rent, patents, and taxes — and adjusting pricing to cover them.
Grades 3–8 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Algebra for Business Decisions
Apply algebra to business planning — turning a production goal into an equation and solving it step by step.
Grades 7–12 · Lesson + worked example · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
The Paperwork of Business
The everyday forms of business — receipts, invoices, and records — and how to fill them out.
Grades 6–10 · Lesson + Activity · Free Lesson / Member WorksheetBusiness Law
Business Law: Crimes
Students learn the criminal-law terms that apply to business — felony, misdemeanor, mens rea, duress, forgery — with examples. Printable lesson and worksheet.
Grades 11–12 / College · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Business Tort Law
Students learn intentional torts and their defenses, plus the elements of negligence, to understand business civil liability. Printable lesson and worksheet.
Grades 11–12 / College · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Introduction to Law
Basic legal vocabulary and the role law plays in society — the foundation for business law.
Grades 9–12 · Lesson + worksheet · Free Lesson / Member WorksheetBusiness & Society
Charities & Non-Profits
What charities and non-profits are, the needs they meet, and the work they do — with a research activity.
Grades 4–6 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member Worksheet
Active Citizenship
What active citizenship means, how young people can contribute, and how to plan a citizenship project.
Grades 4–6 · Lesson + activity · Free Lesson / Member WorksheetFor Business Owners
Starting a business beyond the classroom
Plain-English guides for students old enough to be doing this for real, for adult learners, and for anyone actually starting something — the same topics as the lessons above, written for the person doing it rather than studying it.
Donating & Charities
Charities, fundraising and giving back — the community side of the business and civic-society lessons above.
How to Write a Business Plan
What a plan actually needs to contain, why lenders ask for one, and a one-page version that works for a small venture.
Small Business Marketing Basics
Promoting a business on almost no budget — the practical version of the marketing lessons above.
Small Business Legal Basics
When a business needs a lawyer, how to find one, what suing really costs, and the legal terms behind the business law lessons.
Side Hustles & Business Ideas
Realistic ways to start earning on the side — the grown-up version of “which business to choose”.
Sole Proprietor, LLC or S-Corp?
The ownership-structure decision from the lesson, applied to a real business and its taxes.
Grade Level Guide
Entrepreneurship resources by grade level
Advertising and choosing what to sell — entrepreneurship learned through a hands-on classroom economy.
Target markets, production, and measuring whether a business actually makes a profit.
The principles of marketing, the four P’s, and building a basic marketing plan.
Marketing strategy, profit analysis, and the business thinking behind a real venture.
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Related Topics
More financial literacy resources
Accounting
The formal version of the business records above — the accounting equation, GAAP, assets and liabilities, and the financial statements.
Business Math
Running the numbers on a business — pricing and markup, commission, interest, and reading a profit and loss statement.
Economics
Supply and demand, opportunity cost, and the hands-on classroom economy.
Money Math
Percents, discounts, profit, and the math behind running a business.
Career
Careers in business, work readiness, and earning an income.