Essential Questions:
How can kids start a business? What is an entrepreneur?
How does your product better people’s lives?
How do entrepreneurs create products to solve a problem?
Standards:
SL4.4 - Report on a topic, or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support the main idea or themes, speak clearly at an understandable place.
3-5-ETS1 Engineering Design: Define a simple design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system and includes several criteria for success.
Project Summary:
Students will be working as entrepreneurs to solve a problem. Students will create a business/invention. Students will plan out their business and a plan to create a pitch to investors. Students will have the following project choices.
Project choices:
Poster • Video • PowerPoint Presentation • Props/Invention Prototype