Activities: Class Market Survey
Instructions: Using this form, survey one class in the school to determine possible school-based
business ideas. (Arrange with the teacher the best time for the survey). You may wish to do the
survey by show of hands or redesign the questionnaire for each student to fill out separately.
After combining responses for one or more classes, discuss your suggestions for products and
services that your school "market" could use.
- B. How many in the class are age 12________, 13__________, 14________,
15__________, 16________, 17________, 18+__________?
- C. Number in immediate family (including self)? 2__________, 3_________,
4___________, 5_________, 6__________, 7_________, 8+___________
- D. Do you work? Yes_________ No__________
- E. How many (of the class) like to do each of the following in your spare time?
Reading_______, Play music_______, Sports_______, Watch TV________, Drive
cars_______, Talk on the phone________, Dance_______, Go for walks__________, Fix
things_______, Sew_______, Cook_______, Exercise_______, Crafts_______, Paint or
draw_______, Babysit_______, Write stories_______ (Many other ideas can be added here)
- F. What products or services would you like to be able to purchase at school that cannot
currently be bought there?
Now, based on the information you have collected, list the products that you believe would sell
best to students in your school. Give reasons for each choice. Discuss the possibilities of selling
these products or services in your school.
Source: Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship, Ashmore, Fischer et al, CD available from the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education. Contact: Cathy Ashmore, Cashmore@entre-ed.org
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