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
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.
196 Activities
3 Weeks
In this interactive simulation, students take on the role of a fruit stand manager at a bustling market. They’ll calculate sales, build pricing formulas, test pricing strategies through trial and error, and run a full 6-hour business simulation — all to maximize profit. A perfect blend of math, business decision-making, and entrepreneurial thinking!
19 Activities
2 Hours
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
In this short lab, students analyze sales data for 30 products and 4 customer personas using spreadsheet formulas like IF and VLOOKUP. They create a dynamic, month-filtered summary table with heat map formatting to identify the top products and target personas for maximum profit.
6 Activities
1 Hour
In Industry Inc., students run a virtual car manufacturing company, managing budgets across subassemblies, research, and equipment upgrades over 10 production cycles. Strategic investment decisions lower costs, boost production, and maximize profits, with a live leaderboard tracking performance.
121 Activities
3 Hours
In this hands-on lab, students learn how to create a complete business plan from scratch, covering everything from defining a vision and mission to financial forecasting. By the end, they’ll have a professional, ready-to-present plan for launching their own business idea.
26 Activities
3 Hours
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this business themed simulation, students run a fruit stand, calculating customer bills, automating totals with formulas, and optimizing prices through trial and error. They analyze sales trends, adjust pricing, and compete to maximize profit, gaining real-world business skills!
17 Activities
1 Hour
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
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
Learn to accurately calculate the quantity of concrete needed for construction projects. Master floor plan analysis, unit conversion, and thickness considerations. Optimize material usage, minimize waste, and become a valuable asset in the field of construction and engineering.
8 Activities
1 Hour
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.
2 Activities
30 Minutes
Students will calculate the total cost of all ingredients needed for one Christmas meal They will then find out the total number of meals that can be prepared in a community kitchen for Christmas Day with a budget of $5000.
2 Activities
20 Minutes
This is a bundle of units
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
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
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
