Market Shares and Chocolate - a Cool IWB Resource
And then there were three… Well, four if you include little Ferrero. Now that Cadbury has been consumed by Kraft, there are loads of great resources out there to sustain business lessons over the next year or so. And here is a cracker from the Guardian which would work a treat on the IWB. An interactive guide to revenues and market share by confectionery group AND brand. Some great potential here for IWB-based quizzes and for some follow-up calculations comparing and contrasting the revenues and market shares of particular brands.
Launch interactice guide to chocolate revenues and market shares
Excel AS Teaching Resource: Cash Flow Forecast
Free interactive Excel files designed to teach AS students how to apply the concepts of cash flow. These files are designed to automatically inform students as to whether their answers are correct using prompts. Negative cash balances turn red to facilitate students understanding of overdrafts / cash flow. Ideal for BUSS1. Three files are available. A low ability version, a teacher suggested answer and a higher ability question utilising ‘what-if’ analysis.
read more...»Starter Activity - Business Wipeout (1)
Here is an updated version of our popular Business Wipeout challenge…
read more...»Illustrating Growth Strategies - Walmart the Movie
Often a visual stimulus is a great way to make the point in a business lesson - and here is a terrific resource you could use to illustrate the concept of organic growth…
read more...»Teacher PowerPoint Presentations for AQA BUSS3 & BUSS4
The first editions of our PowerPoint collections for AQA BUSS3 & BUSS4 are now available. Each collections contains a series of professionally-produced PowerPoints which map the content of the new AQA A2 Business Studies specifications.
read more...»Wipeout - Team Challenge (4)
This team challenge is called Wipeout! Students compete in teams to get and retain the highest point score. Successful identification of correct answers leads to an increase in points. Incorrect answers will lead to a total “Wipeout” of any score achieved.
read more...»This is potentially a great new resource for Economics & Business
Breaking news from Google & Hasbro - this week they are launching a free online and global version of Monopoly. 9 September is the date. Built around Google Maps, this looks like it could be a terrific twist on the classic game of buying and selling. More details at the launch site here
Monopoly City Streets will use Google Maps as a board so players can choose from millions of streets around the world to buy. The online version will be the same as the traditional board game but players will be able to build football stadiums and skyscrapers as well as the usual houses and hotels.
Business Week in Pictures
A cross-posting from my blogging colleague Jon Mace who has spotted an excellent resource in the Guardian ..... over to Jon
I have stumbled across an excellent resource on The Guardian website. I am always keen that my students have a good awareness of current goings on in the world of business and economics. I try to devote one lesson a week to examining the business news. Ways in which I do this vary from watching BBC news video clips to getting them to do a tutor2u Biz Quiz. The resource I have found is the Business News in Pictures- 10 pictures and a piece of text with each that highlight the business events of the week. They should provide a good stimulus for class discussion.
We are really pleased that Martin Hartnett has also joined the IB blogging team.
Research Start-Ups! Team Challenge
My first lesson with the AS students next week. Keen to get them buzzing about business start-ups, what better way than to set them a research task in the form of a team challenge!
read more...»Has Your Team Got the Business? Team Challenge (Week 1)
This week sees me heading back to the whiteboard; teaching AS and A2 Business Students at Sir john Deanes in Northwich. Each week I intend to set the students a weekly team challenge. An opportunity to test prior learning, develop their knowledge and understanding of the AQA Business course and hopefully engage the students with some entertaining and challenging lesson activities. I will share the resources and activities on the tutor2u blog and if you feel the need to contribute your own team challenge activities, please do!
Week 1 will kick off with the X Factor Challenge. It combines a PowerPoint quiz, based on basic A2 terms and business news, with a physical challenge, (I was inspired by the TV game show “The Cube”)
read more...»AQA AS Business (BUSS1) - Recommended Websites (2009/10)
The AQA AS Business Unit 1 (BUSS1) specification places strong emphasis on the business start-up process. The start-up area is tremendously interesting and there is no shortage of excellent online resources that students and teachers can access to support their studies for free!. Here is our recommended list - please add your suggestions using the comments box at the foot of the blog page.
read more...»Factory visits - take a virtual tour of the Coca-Cola bottling plant
Here is a cool interactive resource that allows students to take a guided factory tour…
read more...»11 Great Ways to Resource the Business Department for Free (and Improve Exam Results Too)
I was looking for a punchy title for my session at the Business Teacher National Conference at the wonderful British Library (St Pancras) on Friday 19 June. I’m not sure whether this title is quite what I had in mind:
“11 Great Ways to Resource the Business Department for Free (and Improve Exam Results Too)”
...but at least the session will do exactly what is says on the tin!
read more...»Headhunter - Suggestions for other ways to use the resource in teaching
Delegates to our AQA AS Business Unit 2 teacher workshops got the chance to try out our new Headhunter resource, and then to take the whole thing away with them to use in their teaching.
During the workshops we explored alternative uses of Headhunter and ways in which it could be embedded into effective business teaching. Here, as promised for the delegates, are those great teacher suggestions…
read more...»Declan’s new blog
Declan Curry is settling into the Working Lunch slot with his usual aplomb and to mark the transition he has started a new blog providing a window on some of the issues and personalities that Working Lunch will be meeting and covering in the days and weeks ahead. Well worth popping over to! Today’s programme offered a feature on blogging for beginners.
Conference report - Top 10 uses for ICT - Jon Clark
Jon Clark , Head of Faculty at South Cheshire College, delivered a superb guide to his top 10 uses of ICT in the business classroom. Here is the download link for his presentation.
read more...»Great reasons to use blogs in business studies & economics
At the ICT in Business & Economics conference, delegates shared their thoughts on reasons to encourage students and teachers to get involved in blogging. Here is a brief summary of those suggestions.
read more...»Camtasia - A Useful Tool for the Business & Economics Classroom
At the ICT in Business & Economics Conference (29 Feb 2008) we demonstrated the use of Camtasia - a really useful software tool for developing e-learning materials, including video capture and editing.
read more...»Preparing for the ICT in Business Conference
We are just making the final preparations for tutor2u’s ICT in Business & Economics Teacher Conference on Friday. The stunning British Library Conference Auditorium is our venue for what should be a really interesting day away from the classroom.
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