Lesson summary
Students will learn that all bad ideas contain the beginnings of good ideas when it comes to creating a social enterprise, before exploring the classroom and school grounds for resources that could be used as part of their social enterprise’s offerings.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- understand good ideas can spring from less successful ideas
- see the value of resources at hand in the school.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- generate enterprise ideas for their social cause
- work together to find the good hidden among deliberately ridiculous ideas
- identify useful resources and suggest uses for those resources in their enterprise.
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
This unit of lessons is intended to focus on many of the General Capabilities of the curriculum. There are many elements of the curriculum that can be overlaid into these lessons with minor modifications on the part of the teacher. For a full breakdown of the General Capabilities used and the curriculum links that can be drawn into each lesson, click here.
This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Creating a Social Enterprise.
Time required: 60 mins.
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.
Resources required
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Large pieces of paper (one per group)
- Marker pens
- Scavenger Hunt worksheet (one per group)
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- collaboration
- social skills
- empathy
- communication
Additional Info
Cool would like to thank Social Enterprise Academy for supporting the development of these lessons.
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