Curriculum / My First Business / module 2

Market Day: Selling to Strangers

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The venture leaves the family circle: the child sells at a pod Showcase Saturday or neighbourhood stall, learning what real customers do.

Parent guide (what to say and do)

Family customers buy from love; strangers buy from value. Prepare the child for both outcomes: 'Some people will walk past. That is not about you; that is every shop in the world.' Practise the greeting, the price answer, and the thank-you-anyway. Afterwards, count together: how many people stopped, how many bought, and what the difference tells us.

Learning material

Stall setup checklist and price sign template (platform library)

Practical exercises and activities

Prep: make a price sign and arrange the display for the stall. Sale day: two hours at a pod event or gate-front stall with a parent nearby but not in front. Review: the stopped-versus-bought count and one improvement for next time.

Materials required

A small table or cloth, the price sign, products from module one, and a money box.

Assessment checkpoints

Child completes a selling session with strangers, handles at least one rejection politely, and states their stopped-to-bought ratio.

Learn with AI

Ready-made prompts for this module. Copy one into your AI assistant and it becomes a patient tutor that follows the OSH method: no lecturing, no rote learning, hands-on activities included.

For the student

A tutor that teaches this module step by step, asks questions, and never just gives answers.

For the parent or teacher

A coach that helps you prepare, deliver, and troubleshoot this lesson.

How to set this up in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude

ChatGPT: Open ChatGPT → press your profile → My GPTs → Create a GPT → paste the prompt into Instructions → name it after the module → save for repeated lessons. Or simply paste the prompt at the start of a new chat.

Gemini: Open Gemini → Gems panel → New Gem → paste the prompt into the instructions box → name it after the module → save. The Gem stays available for every study session.

Claude: Open Claude → create a Project (or a Skill in Claude Code) → paste the prompt into the project instructions → every conversation in that project becomes a tutoring session for this module.

Safety note: children under 13 should use AI assistants together with a parent, and account age rules of each platform apply.

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