Real kids who started real businesses

Life Skills · Entrepreneurship · ages 9-11

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What did Mikaila Ulmer sell in Me & the Bees Lemonade?
- Handmade colorful bow ties
- Lemonade with honey
- Freshly baked cookies
What does the word 'entrepreneur' mean?
- A person who starts and runs a business
- A person who only studies other people's businesses
- A person who only buys products from other businesses
Caring strongly about your business's work or purpose is called passion.
Circle one: True False
With an adult's help, Sam wants to start a cookie business. Which action turns his idea into business activity?
- Making cookies, setting prices and selling to customers
- Reading several books about how cookie businesses work
- Drawing a detailed picture of a cookie shop for homework
Who helped Moziah Bridges learn to sew?
- His classroom teacher
- A clothing shop owner
- His grandmother
Mikaila used a family lemonade recipe and added honey. Which quality does trying a recipe in a new way show?
- Persistence: learning and trying after a setback
- Creativity: finding or trying ideas
- Passion: caring strongly about the work or its purpose
Mia reads about a successful child entrepreneur. She thinks copying the idea and working hard will guarantee her the same success. Which explanation matches the lesson?
- The story can give ideas, but it cannot promise her success
- Success follows whenever two businesses sell the same thing
- Using the same idea means customers and costs no longer matter
Ben burns a batch of cookies while baking with an adult. Which next action shows persistence?
- Stop baking and never return to the recipe
- Keep the recipe but avoid trying it again
- Learn what happened and try another batch

Answer key

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Lemonade with honey · Mikaila used a family lemonade recipe and added honey. The other stories describe bow ties and cookies.
A person who starts and runs a business · An entrepreneur starts and runs a business. Studying businesses or buying their products does not by itself mean starting one.
True · Passion means caring strongly about the work or its purpose. It describes a strong interest, not a promise of success.
Making cookies, setting prices and selling to customers · Making an offer, setting prices and serving customers are business activities. Reading and drawing can help Sam learn, but do not by themselves start the business.
His grandmother · Moziah learned to sew with help from his grandmother. He used sewing to make bow ties.
Creativity: finding or trying ideas · Trying a recipe in a new way shows creativity. The action described is trying an idea, rather than responding to a setback or describing a feeling.
The story can give ideas, but it cannot promise her success · A success story can offer ideas without promising the same result. Customers, costs and support also affect how a business does.
Learn what happened and try another batch · Persistence includes continuing to work and learn after a setback. Learning from the burnt batch and trying again shows it.