Snack Stand Challenge
⬇ Download Teacher GuideIn this interactive simulation, students take on the role of a snack stand manager during their school’s 2-hour Family Field Day event. Their challenge? Earn at least $150 in profit by making smart, real-world business decisions.
Students sell three products—Coffee, Cold Soda Pop, and Sandwiches—and are provided with a weather forecast, price card, and attendance data to plan their pricing and purchasing strategies. Throughout the lab, students will:
- Build demand curves using historical data
- Create revenue and profit models
- Make purchasing decisions based on predicted demand
- Adjust prices in real time if the actual weather changes
- Analyze actual vs. expected sales and account for leftover inventory
- Calculate total profit and reflect on their performance
The lab can be run as a classroom competition, with an auto-generated leaderboard based on each student’s total profit. This lab gives students a fun and engaging way to understand the basics of business, including:
🔹 Price vs. demand
🔹 Pricing strategies
🔹 Revenue and profit
🔹 Demand curves
🔹 Purchasing decisions
It’s a hands-on, practical introduction to entrepreneurship that combines math, economics, and decision-making in a memorable and competitive classroom experience! 🚀
Student Feedback
How to change the price of different products due to weather. How by changing the prices higher or less will affect how many customers you will have.
learning how to read revenue profit graphs
What I will remember from this lab is how important it is to plan out what to do with a project in advance and to always be ready for unexpected events.
I will remember how it taught me how to adjust prices due to the weather and how other things can factor in the pricing of the items.
The Graphing. There was so much graphing involved. Profit curves are ingrained in my memory.
How it taught us how to make a profit.
It tot me how to prepare for the weather and how to adjust prices.
the fact that my group got second
I will remember getting to work on this with a teammate.
Changing prices on certain items based on the weather.
Pairing prices and demand with weather conditions.
All the stuff I learned.
the weather predictions
The importance of graphs to business.
how to handle money and the profit
The graphs
