Classroom Activities
Empowered’s learning model, Principles + Markets = Mindset (PMM), can be added to any lesson plan or classroom activity regardless of lesson, subject, curriculum, pedagogy, or methodology in any setting, grade, or class type. How can we say that? We’re teacher-validated.
We’ve worked alongside educators to create and improve our library of 120+ PMM-infused activities that can be customized and used in any classroom and we’ve worked to add PMM to teacher-provided activities, too. Each of our activities, available at no financial cost to you, includes:
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We offer activities, all of which can be used based on concept (vs. subject matter) in any classroom, in the following three categories:
Empowered Activity Categories
Bell Ringers
5-15 min. activities that start or further a discussion, introduce a topic, or change the mood of a room.
Skills Development
15-120 min. session-fillers that challenge notions, explore real-world ideas, and create lasting knowledge.
Capstones
Mutli-session, cumulative explorations of high-level concepts that develop and leverage critical thinking.
SAMPLES FROM OUR LIBRARY
Try One of These Easy-to-Implement Activities
Bridge Crossing Conundrum
Students are challenged to think strategically to help get a team of explorers across a rickety bridge with limited time and just one torch.
Creativity Minute
Students use their imaginations to see more than just shapes - recognizing them as items that create opportunities, solve problems, and more.
Foundational Principle Face-Off
Students, through 1:1 match-ups, will determine the "most important" Foundational Principle noting the subjectivity of the decision.
Innovation Activity
Students are challenged to creatively collaborate so an existing, seemingly unrelated, product can be a solution to a stated problem.
Popcorn CODEC
Students, through a "popcorn-style" discussion, are asked to connect an event, a market concept, and a Foundational Principle.
Prospective Business
Students, using design thinking and other lessons and activities, will identify a market "need" and then ideate and develop practical solutions.
Roll the Dice
Students will role the dice to determine a pre-set activity they will perform to represent a principle, with classmates guessing their intent.
Speak Out Cards
Students are given cards with random prompts, of varying degrees of "difficulty", written on them that they will use to practice public speaking.
Subscription Box Design Project
Students use a variety of lessons and activities to explore target markets, design thinking, innovation, etc. to create a repeatable package of products.
Towers
Students will learn the importance of principled interactions and strategic thinking in an attempt to build the best building for their client.
Vacant Lot Growth Mindset Project
Students will learn how to engage the community in this exercise of replacing an underused, local space with a place for all to use and enjoy.
HERSHEY’s Market Research
Students are challenged to use basic market research concepts to concoct - and make - a sweet treat that meets the tastes of their customer.
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