Name: Crash Course: Entrepreneurship #1 Who Even Is An Entrepreneur? Worksheet
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What's inside this resource

Understanding Entrepreneurship Made Easy with Video Guide Worksheets\nThis educational package helps students comprehend the key concepts of entrepreneurship using an engaging video guide format. The resource features a worksheet that aligns with the first episode of Crash Course's acclaimed Entrepreneurship series, titled "Who Even is an Entrepreneur?". Walk through major entrepreneurship ideas like defining what an entrepreneur is, examining examples, learning about the gig economy, and more. The package contains a print version, a Google Classroom-compatible digital version, answer key, and timestamped video guide. Whether used by an entire class, small groups, or individual students, these materials aim to boost entrepreneurship comprehension in an accessible way.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Define an entrepreneur as someone who takes on financial risk to pursue a business idea, in the student's own words
Distinguish an entrepreneurial venture from an employee's idea by asking who carried the financial risk, using the Cat Cycle and Cat Board contrast
Explain what the gig economy is and how working project by project changes the options open to an aspiring entrepreneur
Weigh the trade-offs of working for yourself against traditional employment, naming benefits such as independence and costs such as fewer legal protections
Recall the reasons the Social Science Research Network gives for why people start companies

Teaching tips

Timestamps sit beside nine of the ten questions, so students who miss an answer can jump straight back to the right moment in the episode rather than rewatching from the start
The print and online versions carry identical wording, which makes it possible to run a classroom set on paper and a remote set online from the same page numbering
Question 10 asks what the student learned and carries no timestamp, so it works as an exit ticket after the episode ends
Question 7 asks for pros and cons and the completed version lists several of each, which makes it a natural whole-class board activity rather than an individual write-up
The Word versions can be trimmed to fewer questions or reordered before printing, since the same ten items appear in every version

Skills covered

Listening for detail in a video - students answer to a stated timestamp, such as the number of new businesses started each year at (2:40).
Concept discrimination - the Cat Cycle and Cat Board questions ask students to say why one Me-Wow employee's idea counted as an entrepreneurial venture and the other did not.
Economic vocabulary - students define the gig economy and explain how project-based work changes an entrepreneur's options.
Weighing trade-offs - question 7 asks for both the advantages and the disadvantages of self-employment against traditional employment.
Personal reflection - the closing question asks what the student took from the introduction, with no single expected response.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the three versions of the worksheet differ?

Only in what sits under each question. The print version leaves open writing space, the online assignment version leaves a lettered slot for typing, and the third version has every response already written in. The ten questions themselves are word for word the same across all three.

In Crash Course: Entrepreneurship #1 Who Even Is An Entrepreneur? Worksheet, what do the numbers in brackets after each question mean?

They are timestamps into the episode. Question 1 is answered at 0:20, the Cat Cycle question at 3:02, the gig economy at 5:03 and the final content question at 11:15, so students can find the exact moment rather than scrubbing through the video.

Do the print and digital versions carry the same header?

Not quite. The online and completed versions carry a "(Link to video)" line beneath the episode title; the print version drops that line and shows only the series name and the episode title.