Crash Course: Entrepreneurship #8 The Core of a Business Worksheet

Help students identify the activities and resources a business needs to operate. Timecoded questions follow Crash Course Entrepreneurship episode 8, with print and online layouts and teacher responses.
Grades
Grades 8–12
Pages
1
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Social Studies
Topic
Entrepreneurship, Business model
Resource types
Worksheets, Activities
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

The Crash Course: Entrepreneurship #8 The Core of a Business Worksheet guides students through the key concepts covered in the Crash Course video on the core elements of a business. Students will learn about competitive advantage, key activities, and key resources like physical, intellectual, human, and financial. The worksheet features scaffolded questions to develop understanding of these entrepreneurial ideas. This teaching resource includes a printable version, a Google Classroom-ready digital copy, an answer key with video time stamps, and ideas for implementation like individual work or whole-class discussion. Educators can use this engaging content to foster skills like business analysis, critical thinking, and media literacy.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define competitive advantage as the reason a customer chooses one business over its competitors

  • Explain what a business's key activities are and list five of them for a named company

  • Distinguish physical, intellectual, human and financial resources and give examples of each

Teaching tips

  • A timecode sits beside every question, so a student who loses the thread can jump to the right second instead of replaying the whole episode.

  • The online version leaves no writing space and the print version leaves plenty; the question wording is identical in both, so the choice is purely about how the class will record answers.

  • Each version also ships as a Word file, so questions can be cut or reworded for a shorter lesson without retyping the sheet.

Skills covered

  • Note-taking from video - the ten questions are pinned to timecodes running from 1:47 to 7:45, so students listen for a specific answer rather than summarising freely.

  • Business vocabulary - competitive advantage, key activities, key resources, intellectual property and value proposition each get a question and a worked model answer.

  • Applying a model to a real company - IKEA's key activities are listed out one by one and SquareSpace's value proposition is described, taking students from definition to a named business.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What are the timestamps beside the questions for?

They point to relevant moments in the episode, helping you pause for responses or return to a section during review.

Can students respond on paper or digitally?

The set includes a print layout with writing space and an online layout with response slots. A separate version supplies teacher responses.

Is the video included?

The download includes worksheets and teacher responses, with a link to the separate Crash Course episode.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Competitive advantage

  • Key activities

  • Key resources

  • Value proposition

  • Business model

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