About the Book

The Be An Entrepreneur Series is an engaging and thoughtfully designed collection of books for Classes 1 to 8, crafted to nurture young learners into independent thinkers, innovative problem-solvers, and socially responsible changemakers. This series goes beyond conventional business lessons, emphasizing curiosity, creativity, courage, and care, enabling children to tackle real-world challenges, make confident decisions, and act with purpose. By promoting entrepreneurship, students learn to generate ideas, create opportunities, and contribute to a sustainable and innovative India.

Aligned with NEP 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework 2023 (NCF), the series guides learners from self-discovery to social innovation, blending imagination with action, and values with vision. It develops key competencies such as empathy, honesty, responsibility, collaboration, and ethical leadership, preparing children to become creative, compassionate leaders.

The Young Entrepreneur, the seventh book in the series, invites 12- to 13-year-olds to explore how ideas evolve into enterprises that serve both people and planet. Each of the 15 chapters is anchored around a Chapter Theme connecting classroom learning to real-life experiences at home, school, and the community. Lessons integrate 21st-century life skills, values, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), moving learners from “I can innovate and lead” to “I can design for impact and nation-building.”

Every chapter follows a signature learning framework:

• Opening Story: Introduces themes through relatable real-life scenarios.

• My Toolkit for Life: Summarizes essential mindsets like empathy, ethics, and systems awareness.

• Quick Facts, Big Impact!: Links each theme with India-specific policies, missions, and SDG progress.

• Skills Lab Activity: Provides hands-on opportunities to test community-based ideas.

• Vocabulary Vault: Builds conceptual language around sustainability and entrepreneurship.

• My Learning Tracker: Enables recall, reflection, and self-assessment.

• Chapter-End Factual Story: Call to Action: Highlights real young innovators driving change.

Chapters such as The Marketplace of Choices and The Village That Shared the Sun transform classrooms into youth-entrepreneurship labs, where innovation and enterprise are seen as inclusive, ethical, and service-oriented. Pedagogically, the series fosters design thinking, financial literacy, teamwork, social responsibility, and experiential learning, helping children understand that meaningful enterprise begins with purpose and grows through partnership.

Read with Joy, Create with Heart, Innovate with Purpose — this series inspires young learners to become proactive, thoughtful, and impactful entrepreneurs.

Salient Features

• Encourages curiosity, independent thinking, and problem-solving among students.

• Fully aligned with NEP 2020 and NCF 2023 for K–12 entrepreneurship learning.

• Signature learning framework with stories, skills labs, toolkit activities, and reflective trackers.

• Integrates 21st-century skills, SDGs, and ethical leadership.

• Offers hands-on experiential learning through real-world examples and chapter-end activities.

• Promotes empathy, collaboration, social responsibility, and innovation mindset.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Designed for Classes 1–8, supporting progressive learning stages.

• Fosters entrepreneurial mindset, creativity, and design thinking.

• Chapters link classroom concepts with real-life experiences.

• QR-enabled stories highlight success of young innovators.

• Includes interactive activities, rhymes, and storytelling for deeper engagement.

• Functions as a youth-entrepreneurship lab, promoting purposeful learning and impact.

• By - Shalini Verma

• CBSE

  Class 6

  Enterpreneurship