Life Skills Entrepreneurshipusually ages 7–9

Making a Simple Plan

Before starting a business, making a simple plan: what will I make or do, who will buy it, what do I need, how much will it cost, and what price will I charge?

How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Write or draw a simple business plan covering: product, customer, materials needed, and price
Identify at least three things they would need before they could start selling
Explain why planning ahead is better than just starting without thinking

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If your child wanted to run a small business at a school fair, could they write a simple plan covering what they'd sell, what they'd need, and what they'd charge?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Having a Business Ideaages 7–9Must have a business idea before making a plan for it

Budgeting Pocket Moneyages 7–9Cross-domain: budgeting pocket money (Money & Finance) provides planning foundation

Making a Simple Planthis skill · ages 7–9

Unlocks

Costs & Revenueages 7–9Must understand planning before learning about costs and revenue

Pitching an Ideaages 9–11Must be able to plan a business before pitching it

Learning from Failureages 7–9Having planned and tried makes failure a meaningful learning experience

Teamwork in Businessages 7–9Having a plan makes it easier to divide work among a team

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HE6S07low confidenceEconomics and Business · Levels 5 and 6 · Skills strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Being a Good Sellerages 7–9 Costs & Revenueages 7–9 Having a Business Ideaages 7–9 Learning from Failureages 7–9

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