Unleash Your Students' Inner Superpowers
Ready to spark excitement in your classroom? Our flexible, step-by-step curriculum makes teaching STEAM and SEL skills effortless through through hands-on business experiences.
Why Do Educators Love BizWorld?
Easy to Follow, Done-for-You Lesson Plans
Flexible Implementation
Adaptable Modules
Visual Support Resources
Our Programs Bring Entrepreneurship to Life in Your Classroom
Choose from our suite of programs, each designed to engage students while developing essential STEAM and SEL skills through hands-on entrepreneurial learning.
Perfect for Grades 3-5
A turnkey, classroom-tested curriculum that transforms students into business owners. Through creating and running their own company, students naturally develop math, collaboration, and leadership skills while staying fully engaged. Our most popular program includes ready-to-use lesson plans and comprehensive teacher support.
Designed for Middle School
Launched in 2024 after successful pilot testing, Id8 combines design thinking with entrepreneurship. Students tackle real-world challenges by creating app-based solutions, learning agile development, and mastering technology integration. Teachers report unprecedented levels of student engagement and creative problem-solving.
Middle School Social Entrepreneurship Program
Unite business learning with social impact. Students run micro-businesses, turning $100 seed funding into $500+ profit while supporting important causes. This program teaches financial literacy and business skills while developing socially conscious young leaders who make a real difference in their communities.
BizWorld+ Office Hours
Have questions about BizWorld+? Join us for our BizWorld+ Office Hours! These informal, virtual drop-in sessions are a great opportunity to connect with the BizWorld team, ask questions, get help navigating the curriculum and resources, talk through classroom implementation, and pick up helpful tips and best practices. Whether you’re preparing to teach BizWorld+ for the first time or are already using it with your students, we’re here to support you. Choose a date and time that works for you and drop in—we’d love to see you!
Skills Learned Through The BizWorld Curriculums
Give your students the tools to succeed both in and out of the classroom.
Real-World Business and Financial Literacy
Our programs naturally integrate math, marketing, and financial concepts through hands-on business creation. Educators report unprecedented levels of engagement as students apply core subjects to real-world challenges.
Critical Thinking
Watch students tackle complex problems, make strategic decisions, and learn from outcomes in real time. From market research to profit calculations, students develop analytical skills that extend beyond the classroom.
Leadership
“Students who lack confidence stepped up and felt better about contributing.” Educators consistently report discovering hidden talents in quiet students who blossom into confident leaders through our structured program roles.
Teamwork
Create a collaborative classroom environment where every student has an essential role. As one Educator noted, “Each student had an indispensable role in the program which gave them the responsibility to make their team work well instead of just one leader.”
Need Financial Assistance To Bring BizWorld To Your School?
Every year our generous donors sponsor BizWorld Programs to qualifying educational organizations at little to no cost to them.
I love the BizWorld program! It has definitely become an important and permanent part of my curriculum and it is one of the highlights of my students’ class. We all look forward to it and learn so much about teamwork, math skills, communication skills, problem solving skills and running a business.
Tara H., 7th Grade Teacher, UT
Explore & Compare Our BizWorld Programs
Discover which entrepreneurial learning experience best fits your classroom. Each program is designed to engage, inspire, and develop essential skills through hands-on business teachings.
Description
Description
Program Type
Key Focus
Learning Outcome
Target Age Group
Implementation
Foundational, hands-on entrepreneurship program where students form companies and bring products to market while building essential business and durable skills.
Educator-led
Classroom or Expanded Learning
Business fundamentals, financial literacy, growth mindset, leadership, collaboration, STEAM, durable skills
Understand how a business moves from idea to market and how key business decisions influence success; build financial literacy, collaboration, leadership-skills, problem-solving, and confidence.
Grades 3-8
17 sessions / 20+ hours. Teams form companies, develop and market products, manage finances, and sell at a culminating Pop-Up Market.
Hands-on challenge-based entrepreneurship and STEAM program where students launch companies and develop app-based solutions to real-world challenges.
Entrepreneurship, design thinking, STEAM, financial literacy, leadership, creative problem-solving
Learn to combine entrepreneurship, technology, and design thinking to solve real-world problems; build financial, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
Grades 5-8 (M-School)
10 sessions / 20 hours. Teams launch companies, design and test app prototypes, manage finances, develop marketing, and pitch to investors.
Hands-on social entrepreneurship program where students launch companies, sell products, and use business for positive change.
Social entrepreneurship, financial literacy, empathy, leadership, purpose-driven business, community impact
Grades 4-8
Self-paced online journey from discovering strengths and passions to developing a business idea and confident pitch. Maybe educator-facilitated.
Learner-led
Online, self-paced; educator-facilitated option
Entrepreneurial mindset, idea development, goal setting, business planning, leadership, pitching
7-part, on-demand. Interactive activities guide learners from self-discovery and ideation through business planning and a recorded pitch. May be educator-facilitated.
Fast-paced, hackathon-style entrepreneurship experience where teams tackle real-world challenges with innovative business solutions.
Innovation, entrepreneurial thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, prototyping, pitching
Apply entrepreneurial and innovative thinking to real-world challenges; strengthen problem-solving, collaboration, adaptability, prototyping, and pitching.
Fast-paced, hackathon-style. Educator/program lead-facilitated teams tackle challenges, prototype solutions, receive mentorship, and pitch their ideas.
Advanced entrepreneurship accelerator where young entrepreneurs launch real businesses with expert mentorship and access to funding.
BizWorld-led
Fully virtual
Business launch and growth, mentorship, financial readiness, leadership, pitching
Ages 16-22
10-week virtual accelerator. Weekly workshops, personalized mentorship, and a pitch competition support participants in developing and launching real businesses.
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BizWorld: A Global Initiative in Entrepreneurial Education
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Students Served
98%
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In classroom experience
“BizWorld+ is a great simulation with lots of math and SEL work embedded. Students display incredible focus and great teamwork. It was powerful to see teams come together with unexpected successes.”
“As a social studies teacher, it is important to me to teach students how to be financially responsible, while also providing them with leadership opportunities. Students were engaged and excited to build their business.”
Tom Culbertson, 4th Grade Teacher, CA
Jen Franz, 8th Grade Teacher, NC
“Kids LOVE being engaged in the curriculum and working in teams. BizWorld+ is empowering!”
“BizWorld was my favorite unit to teach with 5th graders. I am a huge fan. I loved the multi-faceted learning opportunities afforded to my students. They looked forward to being in 5th grade because they knew they would get to do this unit. Student engagement and collaboration were never higher!”
Maggie Sanchez, 4th Grade Teacher, Atherton, CA
Tricia Christensen, BizWorld Pro Teacher
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