Curriculum

GWUDECA.org National Entrepreneurship Program

This site has a complete entrepreneurship curriculum, with information, activities, tests and lesson plans. Take a look! www.gwudeca.org

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE)

This toolkit for the National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education is designed to give you the standards and Performance Indicators framework necessary for developing curriculum for entrepreneurship programs as a lifelong learning process.

Entrepreneurship Curriculum Standards www.entre-ed.org/Standards_Toolkit/

The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education

This site has a helpful curriculum review at www.celcee.edu/publications/digest/Dig00-8.html

The USA TODAY Charitable Foundation

The USA TODAY Charitable Foundation has teamed with the Kauffman Foundation to develop entrepreneurship curriculum. They are piloting a 30-week program to teach entrepreneurship and economic concepts. The program is designed to provide USA TODAY newspapers and supporting educational lessons.

Keep up with this initiative and examine their resources at www.usatoday.com/educate/entrepreneur.htm.

Entrepreneurship: How to Start and Operate a Small Business

by Steve Mariotti. From the national Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) www.nfte.com

BizTech 2.0. is a "new and improved" online adaptation of How to Start and Operate a Small Business. It has three levels. The Young Entrepreneurial Scholars Program (YES!) in Massachusetts and Connecticut uses the NFTE curriculum. Learn more at www.nfte.com/biztech/

Entrepreneurship Everywhere

Classroom materials -- http://www.entre-ed.org/_arc/i-index.htm

Entrepreneurship Materials from MarkED

DECA's Entrepreneurship Competitive Events teach hands-on entrepreneurship. The book of guidelines for the events, the DECA Guide is online. While doing these events, students write proposals for businesses, write business plans, promote entrepreneurship, and learn how to manage businesses. View PDF. View events listing page www.deca.org/celisting.html.

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Glencoe, McGraw-Hill, 2000

School Store Operations

South-Western Thomson, 2005

Making Cents International

Curriculum for all ages, with simulations. www.makingcents.com/curriculum/index.php

MediaSpark Inc. and GoVenture Simulations

www.goventure.net

Own the Place

From Start-Up Education. For middle school or high school students. http://way.opens.org/owntheplace/index.htm

Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship

Level 2 takes older students through the process of developing a business plan. www.entre-ed.org/curricul.htm

4-H

4-H offers a Cooperative Curriculum System that has entrepreneurship resources. www.n4hccs.org/shop/products.asp?action=list&cat=10&subcat=65&1=L1

REAL Enterprises

REAL Enterprises focuses on experiential education and includes comprehensive entrepreneurship curricula. Since the early 1980's, REAL has been working to make entrepreneurial training accessible to the communities and people who need it most. Initially designed to help rural high school students, REAL now serves people of all ages and communities of all sizes. Founded by Dr. Jonathan Sher and Dr. Paul DeLargy, REAL became a CFED program in 2004.You can find this at www.cfed.org/focus.m?parentid=32&siteid=341&id=341

Miscellaneous Links

Links to curriculum resources for two entrepreneurship modules for high school level are described at www.sifeusa.org in the Educational Project Resource Database. Modules are Entrepreneurship around the World and Starting Your Own Micro-Business.

Interactive questions for learning about the facets of starting a business (geared to young people) are at www.themint.org/earning/beyourownboss.php .

A site for restaurant entrepreneurship : www.restaurantville.com/

Do a Google search for “Entrepreneurship, Curriculum Mapping Grades 10-12” for a semester course outline in entrepreneurship. (Source not noted on the material.)

The Agency for Instructional Technology ( www.ait.net ) has produced The ‘E' in Me—The Entrepreneur in You with help from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Development in Nova Scotia , Canada : www.ceed.info/programs/curriculum.php