Business & Entrepreneurship (Grades 3–5)

Somewhere between a lemonade stand and a real storefront, kids are ready to learn what actually makes a business work — cost, price, profit, and a customer who trusts you. Elder Bramble and Scout Hazel run the Hollowmarket Trading Post like a real guild and treat your student like an apprentice merchant. Over 10 missions across two weeks, your apprentice finds a business idea, writes a simple plan, adds up startup costs, sets prices with discounts and fractions, times the market with supply and demand, calculates real profit, splits earnings into save/reinvest/spend, writes a persuasive ad, and opens the stall on Opening Day. Every mission pairs a business skill with real academics: fractions, decimals and percentages, multi-step word problems, and persuasive and descriptive writing. Printable and low-prep, with a complete answer key and a non-fiction research task woven through — earn 100 XP per mission toward the Journeyed Merchant rank. What's Inside: - 10 story-based Guild missions across 2 weeks - Needs vs. wants, startup costs, pricing, supply and demand, profit, and reinvestment - Real merchant math — cost, price, profit, discounts, and budgeting — plus persuasive and descriptive writing - A full answer key and a Journeyed Merchant certificate Part of the Business & Entrepreneurship series. ESA-eligible — pay with your ESA where your program covers curriculum.