# Teaching Entrepreneurship > Free, classroom-tested lesson plans, syllabi, exercises and tools for college instructors who teach entrepreneurship, plus the Experiential Entrepreneurship Curriculum (ExEC) for a complete course. Founded by Justin Wilcox. The team is three people who have taught entrepreneurship at the college level and build tools for other instructors. Everything below is free to read and to cite. Lesson-plan downloads ask for an email address. ## Syllabi and course design - [Intro to Entrepreneurship Syllabus and How to Teach It](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/intro-to-entrepreneurship-syllabus-and-instructor-guide/): The 2026-2027 intro syllabus template (AI, finance, 30+ lesson plans) followed by the instructor guide: what a syllabus should include, class-format comparisons, a week-by-week outline, and an FAQ on assessment, teams and business plans. - [15-Week Entrepreneurship Syllabus](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/15-week-entrepreneurship-syllabus/): A complete 15-week semester plan with AI lessons and the Marketing Madness exercise, downloadable. - [Social Entrepreneurship Course Outline](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/social-entrepreneurship-course-outline/): Modules, assignments and a downloadable template for an experiential social entrepreneurship course. - [Teaching Entrepreneurship with AI: A Framework](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/teaching-entrepreneurship-with-ai-framework/): When to require AI, when to restrict it, and how to decide, with a lesson plan students work through in about 30 minutes. - [ExEC: the Experiential Entrepreneurship Curriculum](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/exec/): The complete course: 30+ lesson plans, slides, rubrics and LMS integration, updated every year. ## Lesson plans and classroom exercises - [Business Model Canvas Template and Classroom Exercise](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/business-model-canvas-template-classroom-exercise-osterwalder-method/): A free BMC template and Alex Osterwalder's own classroom exercise, Business Model Matching, ready to run in a college course. - [Lean Canvas Template and Classroom Exercises](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/lean-canvas-template-classroom-exercise/): Ash Maurya's nine blocks explained, the fill order, an honest Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas comparison, and three classroom exercises with lesson plans and a grading rubric. - [Lean Canvas Examples: Fill in the Blanks](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/lean-canvas-example-fill-in-the-blank/): Two worked Lean Canvas examples for class, Dollar Shave Club and Salesforce, with the scaffolding removed a round at a time. - [How to Test a Lean Canvas: Find the Riskiest Assumption](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/lean-canvas-riskiest-assumption/): Teaching students to rank assumptions and test desirability before feasibility, using the Ceres drone case. - [Design Thinking 101: The Wallet Challenge](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/design-thinking-101/): The Stanford wallet exercise as a step-by-step design thinking lesson with a free interactive worksheet and instructor plan. - [Marshmallow Tower Challenge Lesson Plan](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/marshmallow-spaghetti-tower-building-competition/): The spaghetti-and-marshmallow build, run to teach assumption testing and iteration, with slides and a reflection worksheet. - [Failure Resume](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/failure-resume/): A growth-mindset exercise where students reframe failures as learning, with a free interactive template, student examples and a lesson plan. - [Pitch Rubric for Student Presentations](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/pitch-rubric-for-student-presentations/): An objective rubric with detailed criteria that makes pitch grading consistent and reduces disputes. - [AI Lesson Plan for Entrepreneurship Students](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/ai-lesson-plan-for-entrepreneurship-students-in-2026/): One session from student AI concerns to Demo Day: every student builds and launches a working app in a week, no coding required. - [AI-Proof Assignments](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/ai-proof-assignments/): Four ways to design assignments that keep academic integrity and deepen learning when students have AI. - [ChatGPT Prompts for Students](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/chatgpt-prompts-for-students/): Prompts that shorten students' learning curve with AI, organized by what they are trying to do. - [Pilot Your Purpose](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/student-purpose/): A first-week exercise where students identify topics they care about, which also tells the instructor who is in the room. - [Effectuation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/effectuation-and-entrepreneurial-mindset/): Free slides that make effectuation memorable for students. - [Entrepreneurship Classroom Exercises](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/entrepreneurship-classroom-exercises/): Hands-on exercises that raise engagement in a college entrepreneurship class. - [Award-Winning Entrepreneurship Exercises](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/award-winning-entrepreneurship-exercises/): Experiential exercises recognized by USASBE, classroom-tested and proven to raise engagement. - [Top 5 Free Entrepreneurship Lesson Plans](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/top-5-entrepreneurship-lesson-plans/): The most-used lessons on the site: idea generation, customer interviewing, prototyping and problem validation. ## Free tools for the classroom - [Digital Business Model Canvas](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/tools/bmc/): An editable Business Model Canvas that saves as students type, shares by link and downloads as a PDF. No login required. - [Digital Lean Canvas](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/tools/lean-canvas/): An editable Lean Canvas with Ash Maurya's nine blocks, numbered in fill order. Saves as students type, shares by link and downloads as a PDF. No login required. - [Course Rally](https://courserally.com/): A classroom engagement platform: in-class discussions that group themselves, quiz games with no seat cap, exit-ticket reflections, and attendance that syncs to Canvas, D2L and Blackboard. ## In public - [Our Google Death: A Live Case Study](https://teachingentrepreneurship.org/entrepreneurship-case-study-google-death/): A live marketing case study with real data on losing Google clicks to AI answers and testing whether LinkedIn can replace them, shared for use in class. ## About - Site: https://teachingentrepreneurship.org - Founder: Justin Wilcox - Audience: college and university instructors who teach entrepreneurship, plus high school and MBA instructors. - Contact: through the site.