Entrepreneurship
Business Simulations to Develop Career Readiness Skills
At Active Learning Labs, our program equips students with the practical knowledge and skills needed to excel as entrepreneurs, managers, and future leaders.
Through real-world business and economic simulations, students gain hands-on experience applying key concepts learned in the classroom. These interactive simulations provide an engaging and realistic way to explore business and economics, fostering critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills in a supportive, dynamic environment. Prepare your students for success with our interactive approach.
Entrepreneurship - Units & Lessons
$25.00
This lab teaches students the 4 Ps of Marketing through interactive tasks. Acting as marketing managers, students analyze customer needs, set prices, allocate sales channels, and distribute a promotion budget. They review results and compete on a leaderboard based on profit.
43 Activities
3-4 Hours
$100.00
Run a virtual school store in this team-based simulation! Students select products, analyze data, price, promote, purchase, and track sales—competing for profit. A real-world business challenge covering key concepts in marketing, finance, and teamwork.
175 Activities
3 Weeks
$10.00
Students will manage a virtual 48-acre farm, making strategic decisions on crop selection, resource allocation, and pricing to maximize profit. Students will gain hands-on experience in demand curve analysis, pricing, financial management, sustainability, and logistics while learning essential business principles.
38 Activities
2 Hours
$20.00
Students will use Grandma's cookie recipe to start a new business. Use the concept of ratios, fractions & percentages to run the business for 3 months
58 Activities
2 Hours
$20.00
Run as a classroom competition, the Snack Stand Lab lets students manage a snack stand for a 2-hour school event. They learn demand, pricing, revenue, and profit by creating demand curves, adjusting prices based on weather, and analyzing sales to hit a $150 profit goal.
60 Activities
2 Hours
$10.00
Students will explore the concept of financing a business through loans, the benefits of compound growth, and how the initial investment amount and growth rate can affect their profits. By the end of this activity, students will have a better understanding of how to finance a business and the factors to consider when taking out a loan.
10 Activities
1 Hour
$5.00
Students will delve into the fundamental concepts of pricing and the pivotal role demand curves play in shaping effective pricing strategies. The task for students is to adjust the price of six products for the Christmas closeout sale.
23 Activities
1.5 Hours
$9.99
Students will make investment decisions to rescue a restaurant that is running in losses. They will decide the amount to spend on new hires, worker training, and advertisement.
20 Activities
30 Minutes
$5.00
Students will calculate the material required for providing gifts for 25 children, and then learn and use spreadsheet functions to calculate for 1000 children.
11 Activities
1 Hour
$10.00
The Black Friday Retail Challenge lab immerses students in a real-world simulation where they act as department store owners. They analyze demand, revenue, and profit curves to set optimal Black Friday prices for six flagship products, with a target of $2,500 extra profit.
26 Activities
1 Hour
$5.00
Students will work individually to categorize different needs into the appropriate levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. They will understand how different factors, such as money, and time can impact the needs.
22 Activities
30 Minutes
$9.99
Students will be introduced to concepts showing how Interest Rates affect Unemployment and Inflation Rates. these concepts are introduced in the context of the Bronze Age city-state of ancient Sumer.
51 Activities
4 Hours
This is a bundle of units
$499.00
Culinary Business Simulation is an interactive bundle where students explore nutrition, budgeting, and food business management. From planning balanced meals to running a snack stand and rescuing a struggling restaurant, students apply real-world math, decision-making, and problem-solving in a fun, hands-on way!
7 Units
3 Weeks
$29.99
Student pairs will run a virtual Snack Stand for an event in the school. Teams will make purchase & sales plans, and the team with maximum profit wins
82 Activities
3 Hours
$9.99
Students will use Grandma's cookie recipe to start a new business. Use the concept of ratios, fractions & percentages to run the business for 3 months
59 Activities
2 Hours
