Enterprise - What is enterprise? - 5 activities
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In this PSHE economic wellbeing activity key stage 3 students will gain an understanding of why enterprise skills and attributes are important to everyone hoping to make the most of their working life.
Below are the lessons in this topic. Click ‘View these lessons’ to download resources
Challenging ideas
Should mobile phones be banned? Should school be optional? Students brainstorm approaches to challenging ideas.
An entrepreneur - Jay Z
Students compile a PowerPoint presentation using the template provided on the subject of “Jay Z and enterprise”.
Identify your enterprise skills
Students deisgn a webpage all about themselves and their enterprise skills.
Enterprise definitions
Students define keywords then work together to create a quiz using PowerPoint.
What is Enterprise Activities for Form Periods
These lessons are an ideal way to teach the basics of enterprise education without taking up time in the school timetable. The lessons are broken down into short activities and help to achieve learning outcomes for the personal and economic well-being programmes of study.
Activity 1 – Challenging Ideas
One of the key skills in enterprise is to have creative ideas. In this lesson, students will learn that sometimes a good idea can come out of an impractical suggestion.
Activity 2 – An Entrepreneur, Jay-Z
Using this famous example, students explore what it means to be enterprising and identify skills that are evident in this case, answering the question, what makes him a successful entrepreneur?
Activity 3 – Identify Your Enterprise Skills
In this creative exercise, students must consider their own entrepreneurial abilities and then deliver them in a visual display.
Activity 4 – Enterprise Keywords
Working as a class, students consider key attributes that make a successful entrepreneur and then identify their own skills and areas for improvement in this area.
Activity 5 – Enterprise Definitions
A short quiz introduces this activity, then students must work in pairs to expand on the information to deliver back to the rest of the class.