Curriculum / My First Business / module 1

The Bookmark Company

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The child designs, produces, and sells handmade bookmarks, running one complete business cycle from investment to profit.

Parent guide (what to say and do)

Lend the child 200 PKR as startup capital and write the loan down solemnly. Help them buy card, colours, and ribbon. They produce ten bookmarks, decide a price, and sell to family, neighbours, and pod families over one week. At the end, they repay the loan and count profit. The crucial conversation: 'Your materials cost 200. You collected 350. What is really yours?' Let them keep and decide what to do with the profit.

Learning material

Simple ledger sheet: money in, money out (platform library)
Bookmark design ideas card

Practical exercises and activities

Production day: make ten bookmarks with quality checks (would you buy this one?). Sales practice: roleplay the sales pitch with a parent before real customers. Accounting evening: fill the ledger with real numbers, repay the loan, count profit.

Materials required

Card sheets, colours, ribbon or wool, scissors. Roughly 200 PKR startup, recovered through sales.

Assessment checkpoints

One completed cycle: loan taken, product made, at least five real sales, loan repaid, profit counted, and the child states one thing they would do differently.

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

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For the parent or teacher

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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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