Understanding the role of economics in society and using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity and career options.
What If Math is a reinvention of our mathematics curriculum. Today’s K–12 curriculum was defined in the year 1202 by Leonardo of Pisa to give merchants and traders a better system for doing their math. However, today computers do the algorithms for us, and business is no longer primarily about solving equations. Rather, business involves the use of spreadsheets and functional thinking.
What if students didn’t just learn about civic engagement but also practiced it by solving real-world social problems? Democracy thrives when individuals are empowered to become change agents by offering entrepreneurial solutions for unmet community needs and social issues. Social entrepreneurship is an engaging, real-world context for teaching social studies while cultivating civic engagement.
Every year, thousands of high school students from around the world participate in the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition in which they pitch their innovative business concepts to experienced entrepreneurs and businesspeople, receive feedback on their ideas, join a community of likeminded students, and compete for thousands in cash prizes.
What if every student learned to think like an inventor? What if educators had a powerful way to inspire all students to engage in their own learning? What if young people were prepared to meet the demands of jobs that don’t yet exist?
Are your students wondering why some things cost more than they did in the past? Tariffs are like hidden price tags that shape what we buy, who benefits, and even how countries interact.
The Space Sustainability Competition invites teams of middle school students to envision innovative solutions to one of space exploration’s greatest challenges: managing space debris.
Rhymes with Reason helps students boost reading skills and learn important English words by showcasing their existence in widely known music lyrics. Students learn words through favorite songs with the help of skill-building mini games.
Inventionland Education’s Innovation Curriculum provides K–16 students with hands-on, immersive learning experiences that engage and entertain while teaching valuable critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The Innovation courses are intended to encourage and cultivate the next generation of scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators to continue to innovate, learn, and grow.
Sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Camp Invention Connect is a confidence-boosting, virtual STEM summer camp where curious children entering kindergarten through grade 6 build creative inventions and lasting friendships.
Economics, as often taught in schools, is all about the number of widgets and supply and demand curves, and these abstract concepts can be uninteresting to many students. But showing students how the interplay between the NFL and Taylor Swift is an example of the theory of the firm, and looking at Swift’s career and success as a means of understanding gender economic discrimination, can make these concepts more meaningful to students.