Entrepreneurship & Business Plan Lessons
Entrepreneurship & Business Plan Lessons
A business plan unit that survives contact with a real class: value proposition, market research, pricing, startup costs and a pitch, in editable files you can stretch across a semester or compress into three weeks.
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Business, finance and career readiness units
Entrepreneurship, personal finance and workplace skills material written for grades 9 to 12; tap any cover for the full preview, contents and price.
Why teachers use these
Why a business plan unit is worth buying
Everyone knows the project: students pick a business, build a plan, pitch it. The work is in the scaffolding. A market research task that is more than a survey of friends, a pricing lesson that reaches break-even, projections a sixteen-year-old can actually finish, and a rubric that separates a good idea from a good plan. That scaffolding takes weeks to write. These units hand it over already sequenced, with the slides and answer keys included.
What's covered
What comes in a business unit
Everything you would otherwise build yourself over a long weekend.
- Student workbook on four levels
- Slides for each plan section
- Model answers and worked figures
- Pacing plan with lesson timings
- Printable and digital templates
Make it work for everyone
Assessing the plan, not the idea
Grade the evidence behind each section rather than how exciting the concept sounds, or the most confident presenter wins every time. Ask for a named target segment, a price with reasoning attached, and a startup cost list with sources. The four levels let a mixed group produce the same plan sections at different depths, which keeps pitch day fair.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Will this prepare students for DECA or FBLA events?
It builds the skills those events test, including written plan structure, financials and a spoken pitch. Teach Lessons has no affiliation with either organization. For competition, take the association's current event guidelines and rewrite the rubric inside the editable file so it matches their judging criteria exactly.
Can I use this in a middle school exploratory class?
Parts of it. The value proposition, market research and marketing lessons work with eighth graders if you use the lower two worksheet levels and simplify the projections. Break-even and pro forma work usually needs high school math. Check the grade band listed on each product page first.
Is there a spreadsheet for the financials?
The financial pages come as editable Word documents and PowerPoint slides, not prebuilt Excel models. Many teachers copy the startup cost and projection tables into a spreadsheet themselves so students can watch totals update. Nothing in the files is locked, so that conversion takes only a few minutes.
Does one purchase cover all my sections?
Yes, for your own classes. The license covers the buying teacher's classroom, so print for every section you teach and use it again next year. It does not cover passing files to another teacher in the department, who would need their own copy of the unit.
Run pitch day without building the unit
Download the plan, slides and rubric tonight and start the project on Monday.
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