Hello Educators,

Join us in celebrating creativity, innovation, and youth entrepreneurship! November is National Entrepreneurship Month and we’re excited to share resources that will ignite an entrepreneurial spark in your students!

The Youth Entrepreneurship & Business Opportunities Team

Nebraska 4-H

The youth entrepreneurship team from Nebraska 4-H has developed a fun, hands-on classroom resource kit to engage your students in entrepreneurial thinking and innovation for National Entrepreneurship Month. In the classroom resource kit, you’ll find classroom lessons, entrepreneur videos, a calendar full of fun activities, and access to pages from the Find your Spark to Start. Sign-up and receive quick access to the free resources at:

http://go.unl.edu/e-shipmonth

As a part of the National Entrepreneurship Month classroom resource kit (above), you will find a link to a sample of the book. The book is also available on the UNL Marketplace at: https://marketplace.unl.edu/default/find-your-spark-to-start.html And more good news...if you complete the survey that accompanies the resource kit, your name will be entered into a random drawing for a free set of 25 books!

Flipping

Flipping is a simple exercise in looking at things with a different lens or in a new way. Participants stand in a circle. Facilitator holds an object- like a roll of masking tape- and begins the exercise by saying “This may look like a roll of tape, but it’s really a ---- (bracelet, letter “O”, etc.). The object is handed to the next person in the circle, and they repeat the sentence, filling in with a new idea of what the object could be. After going around the circle once, repeat and have students try to think of more ideas.

Discussion: Was it hard to come up with new ideas? How is it helpful to think of objects in a new way? Tell me how another person’s idea sparked a new idea for you? Do you feel that this exercise might be helpful for anyone trying to be creative, like an entrepreneur?