Teaching #socent to #youthchangemakers

This is a step-by-step series of lessons to help students explore the concepts of #socent. 

Lesson 1: Jigsaw the definition of terms

Break into groups of students. Watch the videos. Discuss the main points of the video with the people in your group. Become an expert on the content within the video. 
Document your learning in a way you feel comfortable (note taking, vlog, sketchnotes etc). Now number off in your groups to regroup for your jigsaw.  Share your expert knowledge with your new group. Document your learning from them too! 

What are goods and services?
Click on the image to take you to the lesson. You will need an account with BrainPopjr. for this video. 

What is an Entrepreneur?

What is a social enterprise?

What is a social entrepreneurship?

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Lesson 2: Be inspired by others

Can kids create businesses?
Watch the video. Discuss as a group. What skills, attitudes and interests does this speaker evidence? 

Task: In groups explore the websites listed below. Discuss the questions asked and be ready to use your presentation literacy skills to share what you have learned with the class. You will need to negotiate in your group who will present aspects of the questions. 

Explore Amber’s website. What skills do you think she needed to start her business? What do you think she did first?

Explore Cory’s website. Discuss who you think Cory reached out to in order to coach him on building a business?

Explore Mo's website ask yourself what do you think made Mo choose to create bowties for his buisness model?

Explore Leena’s website  and her foundation's website. How does she use her profits to help people in need?

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Lesson 3: Finding our own passions

Task:
Watch the video. Use the sentence stem provided and write your first thoughts down. This may change. Just give it a go.

I will make the world a better place by...

Task Debrief:
Share with your friend what you have written for your first idea for a social enterprise.  Now let’s group these into some themes. These themes will make your groups for the upcoming lesson. 

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Lesson 4: Dragon's Den

Dragon’s Den is a TV show where people pitch business ideas to a panel of experts. A successful plan requires resiliency, creativity, teamwork, and lots of other qualities.
The panel only endorses the best entrepreneurial projects, offering various funding deals.
Here is a news story video about a student group’s Dragon’s Den social enterprise pitch.

TEACHER NOTE: The following video can be given as a flipped video (or a video the child watches at home) so that it doesn't take away from teaching and learning time in class. 

For this learning engagement you will get into small groups based on the themes that came out of the last lesson. You will design a social enterprise. Remember a successful social enterprise has to have a positive social impact and make money, like Hope Blooms (like you saw in the news story).

Your limitation for this task is that you can only use materials available in our school or easily accessible in in your country to invent your good or service. Think about what you saw on Dragon's Den! Don't worry your teachers will not be so direct! They want to see your ideas succeed so they may ask you questions to challenge or extend your thinking. 

What do you remember about the difference between social enterprise, and enterprise? For the purpose of this activity, these definitions are useful guidelines:
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• Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is to create a positive community impact rather than to generate profits for individual shareholders. They apply the power of the marketplace to advance social, cultural and/or environmental agendas. Thus, they measure success with the attainment of both economic and social value.
• For-profit organizations are businesses in the traditional sense, whose primary purpose is making money for their owners and shareholders. They generally use financial return on investment as their measure of success, seeking to generate the maximum profit.
• Non-profit organizations seek to create the maximum social return on investment, in other words to make the biggest positive community impact. These organizations receive special status under the law and are exempt from many taxes. They usually depend on donations, grants, and volunteers to cover their operating costs. ​​

Step 1: Brainstorm

What is your mission?
Are you trying to fix a health, communication, relationship, educational, athletic, or environmental problem?
Do you have a viable business idea?
Do your classmates want your product or service?
Be creative! Think outside the box and have fun.
List your top three ideas.

Step 2: Project selection

Choose your best idea. You will have to present this idea to a panel of judges.

Project idea:

Step 3: Goal-Setting

What steps do you need to make your idea happen?
List the steps your will take to achieve your goal: supplies, authorizations, people, marketing, production, etc.
Keep in mind the SMART goals criteria (specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, time-bound).

Step 4: Analysis

List three strengths of your idea that might make you successful and three weaknesses that might cause you problems as you develop your social enterprise.
Strengths:
Weaknesses:

Your teachers will judge as dragons.

You should include where, what, why, who, and how in your presentation:
Where did your idea come from?
Why did you choose this idea?
Why will it be successful?
Why will it help fill a need in your community?
What will you do?
What supplies will you use?
Who will purchase your product or service?
Who are your customers?
How will you go about starting your social enterprise?
How you will be resilient and overcome any perceived challenges?
Describe your timeline.

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Lesson 5: Reflect on this: sometimes limitations = greater creativity
How do you think you might be limited?

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Lesson 6: More research into your own passions

Where else can you learn more about becoming a #youthchangermaker social entrepreneur?
​https://www.youthventure.org/
https://www.ashoka.org/en/story/youth-charge
http://www.voicesofyouth.org/
http://sparkaction.org/24under24
http://www.global-changemakers.net/
https://www.causes.com/
http://whatkidscando.org/index.html

Let’s apply what we know!
Now you have a great foundation it’s time to try on your own.
​What is the need?
What research needs to be done?
What are the anticipated costs?
How will we secure investors?
What roles or jobs might exist (accountant, marketer, designer)
How will we market ourselves (business card, advertisement, poster, commercial)?
What is the language we will need to know (angel investors, accelerators, etc)
What else can you find?

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