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It's Your Business

Collaborative Business Simulations to Develop Career Readiness Skills

We believe that a solid understanding of business principles and practices is essential for students to succeed in the modern world. Our program is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to become successful entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders.

We use real-world business and economic simulations to teach students how to apply the concepts they learn in the classroom. These simulations provide students with a realistic and engaging way to learn about business and economics, allowing them to practice decision-making and critical thinking in a safe and supportive environment.

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It's Your Business Labs

We use highly interactive economic ActiveLearningSheets, team-based collaborative labs, and challenges to teach business and economic concepts. These interactive activities allow students to apply what they learn in the classroom in a fun and engaging way. By working in teams and collaborating with their classmates, students develop communication and teamwork skills that are essential for success in the business world.

Here are the list of ActiveLearningSheet and ActiveLearningLabs we use to teach economics and business.

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Grade: 8-12
$10.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Black Friday - Discount Pricing Challenge

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
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Grade: 8-12
$9.99 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Cookies Inc. - Recipe Ratios

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
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Grade: 8-12
$10.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Snack Stand

Students will run a virtual Snack Stand for an event in the school. They will make purchase & sales plans with a target profit of $150.00 after the end of the event.

  • 44 Activities
  • 2 Hours
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Grade: 8-12
$5.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

The Right Price Challenge

Students will understand and use the relationship between price and demand to set the price of Brownies in a store and make the store profitable.

  • 20 Activities
  • 45 Minutes
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Grade: 8-12
$10.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Workplace Ethics: What’s the Big Deal?

Emily, one of the It’s for Real core group of friends, is an employee of a pizza shop. Her friends order a pizza, then ask her not to charge them because her boss is away and will never know. She rejects their request, but some of her friends have trouble understanding why.

  • 11 Activities
  • 1 Hour
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Grade: 8-12
$5.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Christmas Closeout Sale: Festive Pricing Challenge

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
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Grade: 8-12
$5.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Santa's Workshop: Mastering Spreadsheets

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
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Grade: 8-12
$9.99 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Restaurant Rescue

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
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Grade: 8-12
$2.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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.

  • 20 Activities
  • 30 Minutes
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Grade: 8-12
$10.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Financing Your Business

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
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Grade: 8-12
$9.99 $25.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Foundations of the Modern World - Interest Rates, Unemployment, and Inflation

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
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Grade: 8-12
$9.99 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Cookies Inc. : Recipe Ratios - Paired Learning

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
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Grade: 8-12
$29.99 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Snack Stand - Paired Learning

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
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Grade: 8-12
$10.00 $50.00/Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Farm To Table : Agri-Business Simulation

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
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Grade: 10-12
$8.00 /Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Ethics Under Pressure: Navigating Deadlines

This interactive lab helps students navigate ethical dilemmas under tight deadlines. Through realistic scenarios, engaging activities, and reflective writing, learners build skills to balance integrity, productivity, and teamwork while analyzing the consequences of ethical and unethical decisions.

  • 12 Activities
  • 1-2 Hours
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Grade: 10-12
$15.00 /Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

4P's of Marketing

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.

  • 40 Activities
  • 3-4 Hours
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Grade: 10-12
$8.00 /Classroom
ActiveLearningLabs

Social Media at Work: Blurred Lines

This lab explores the ethical challenges of social media in the workplace. Through Maya's dilemma, students analyze how online actions impact team dynamics and professional boundaries. With interactive activities, they learn to navigate digital ethics, balance personal expression, and maintain professionalism.

  • 13 Activities
  • 45 Minutes
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Grade: 8-12
$600.00 $50.00
Career Solutions Publishing

The Real World Ready Business Bundle

As the end of the school year approaches, it's time to wrap up on a high note! Career Solutions Publishing has partnered with Active Learning Labs to introduce our end-of-year culminating activities designed to not only reinforce content but also apply it to real-world scenarios, ensuring that your students leave with a deeper understanding and practical skills.

  • 8 Hours
$2.99 $10.00/Classroom

Needs & Wants

Students will distinguish between needs and wants in today's modern society. Students will be challenged to manage their money and time to satisfy their needs and wants on a limited budget.
  • Auto-Graded
$2.00 $10.00/Classroom

Transactions To Journal Entries: Sunny Snacks

In this activity, students will learn to record financial transactions in a journal for Alex's business, "Sunny Snacks." They will practice identifying, classifying, and documenting entries accurately.
  • Auto-Graded
$5.00 $10.00/Classroom

The Right Price

Students will explore how raising the price of an item will (usually) results in a lower number of sales (Demand). They will use a graph of this relationship to find the price that results in maximum profit.
  • Auto-Graded
$1.99 $10.00/Classroom

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs

Students will categorize different needs into the appropriate levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. They will experiment with different factors such as money and time to see the resulting impact.
  • Auto-Graded