Lesson Starter - Brand Logo Bingo (1)
We’ve now reached 5,000 downloads of Brand Logo Bingo - so here’s a reminder of the resource link for those who missed it the first time. A good way of breaking the ice with new or reluctant students, or re-energising your existing students. A simple game of bingo - with a twist….
read more...»Magic Whiteboards
I received some of tutor2u’s new ‘magic whiteboards’ over the weekend and used them today in class for the first time. An amazing, amazing idea with loads of uses to enhance teaching and learning.
read more...»Six superb business lesson activities from Lord Sutch
I was browsing the business studies blog archive last night and spotted these six fantastic lesson activities from Lord Sutch which were amongst the top 20 most-downloaded resources from the last school year. Well worth looking at - particularly if you missed them first time…
read more...»(probably) The Best Business Lessons, Ever (TBBLE 2010)
Book one of the last few places available for TBBLE 2010 - the resource-packed CPD day for all business teachers
This brand new CPD day for all business teachers is packed full with more business teaching ideas and resources than you’ve ever experienced from an INSET day. You’ll also get to meet “Lord Sutch” - our prolific and inspired creator of business teaching ideas and Mark Mitchell (author of the highly successful Friday Afternoon Business Studies). Not to be missed!
Download a printable booking form (pdf)
read more...»Whats in a name? A puntastic way to start the new school year
This is a good activity for the first lesson with a new business group…
read more...»37 Ways for a Business to be More Competitive
I love this new article on Smarta which really is gold-dust for business teachers…
read more...»Lesson Worksheet - Gross Profit Basics
Here is a new lesson worksheet actvity which allows you to test student’s understanding of the basics of gross profit and gross profit margin.
Download lesson worksheet on gross profit and gross profit margin
Crossword activity - AQA GCSE Unit 2 - Business Organisation
Here is a crossword activity with 15 clues designed to support students taking AQA GCSE Business Unit 2. It covers some of the key terms in section 1 of the Unit 2 spec - the Business Organisation.
A full pack of over 400 crossword and other lesson activities can be found in our AQA GCSE Business Unit 2 PuzzlePack which is now available.
Download Crossword activity - AQA GCSE Business Unit 2 - Business Organisation
Lesson Activity - Market Research Cloze Exercise (1)
The first in a new series of printable student worksheets to support GCE, GCSE and BTEC Business courses…
read more...»The Forehead Post it Note
Its been a while…......
This is a cool activity that gets students talking the moment they walk through the door.
Before a lesson I put a key word on a post it note and as the students were walking through the door, stuck it on the forehead of a student (one that I know would engage with this activity)
The student then had to walk around the class asking the other students questions (to which they could only answer yes or no) to find out what the key word was.
A bit of fun to start the lesson with a splash of learning thrown in.
Now that can’t be bad…........
Advertising Slogans Quiz
Thanks to Geoff for this sweet advertising slogans quiz - a good way to fill a gap
Quiz Handout
Advertising_slogans_quiz.student.docx
Quiz answers
Slogans_quiz_answers.docx
The Sense of a Goose
Clearing out my garage the other week, I came across one of my very first lesson plans. The lesson was on teamwork and leadership and it was for my first ‘formal’ observation by my University mentor.
Before I came into teaching, I worked for several years in retail management. At our monthly management meeting (several other store managers and the area manager) the area manager got us all to close our eyes, and he read (ever so slowly) a store entitled ‘the sense of a goose’. You can find it here. I still remember it to this day.
I used the sense of a goose in my observed lesson. Got the kids to close their eyes I did. Read it out real slow. Then got the students to discuss what it meant.
I used it as a starter today for my Year 13’s. The loved it. Especially closing their eyes.
I love this story, I hope you do too…...........
Build a Tower - Build a Team
I haven’t come across this particular Marshmallow Challenge before (there is the standard one about eating as many as you can in 2 minutes or stuffing your mouth - diminishing returns?) But it could be a terrific exercises to use with Economics and Business students at any point during the school year! Here is a TED talk on some of the surprising results from around the world - and there are more details available here from this blog.
AQA A2 Business (BUSS3) - Influences on Functional Objectives
A key theme in BUSS3 is the influences (external and internal) that affect the setting and achievement of functional objectives. For tutor2u’s AQA A2 BUSS3 INSET days last year we developed a new resource that encourages students to analyse and evaluate the potential implications of a variety of influences on some case study businesses.
read more...»Revision Quiz - Franchises
Here’s an updated ten-question quiz on franchises…
Download printable (pdf) version [answers at the back]
Starter Activity - Cash Flow Forecasting for Celebs
Help Katie and Alex put their cash flow forecast together for an exciting new business venture…
read more...»Wipeout Challenge - UK Recession
Here is a new version of Wipeout challenge. This time the task is for students to identify the businesses that entered administration during 2008-2009. A nice little lesson starter. The follow-up could be to discuss why the businesses that did go bust failed..and what happened to them since (not all disappeared altogether)
UK_Recession_Wipeout_Challenge.ppt
Starter Activity - Teacher Talkabout
I did this today with my Year 12’s. Went down a storm it did.
read more...»Wipeout Challenge - Total Quality Management
Many thanks to Lord Sutch for sending over this version of Wipeout Challenge, which his Lordship ran successfully with his GCSE Business students recently. it would work just as well with AS students covering quality control / assurance. The file download is below. it is a PowerPoint show (pps) format.
Download Wipeout Challenge - Total Quality Management
Data watch - what happened to consumer spending in the UK recession?
Putting to one side all the newspaper and tv stories of how consumers behaved during the recent recession in the UK, what does the data show? What were the real trends and how did consumers behave compared with the long preceding period of economic growth in the UK?
read more...»Whiteboard Challenge - Drawing UK GDP
Here’s a simple lesson activity which might get students thinking about the UK recession in the context of the longer-term performance of the economy. It might add a bit of spicy competition to the start of a lesson too..
read more...»An interesting way to describe the Business Cycle
Not really an activity but I asked my students to think about how they would describe the Business Cycle to a 10 year old. One student came up with this brilliant description…
read more...»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
A classroom game to build analysis and evaluation skills in business lessons
Here’s a potentially valuable way of using a comedy skill to encourage students to build their analysis and evaluation skills - the “Yes and” Game…
read more...»Bottom Line - Keeping Overheads Low
30 seconds of business studies gold here - from the inspirational founder of specialist retailer JoJo Maman Bébé - Laura Tension. Laura spoke at the tutor2u Business Teacher conference back in 2006 and she really is a tremendous role model for students.
The question is - what is the most important lesson she has learned in business. Laura’s answer is simple - keep overheads low.
The clip would make a great starter or stimulus piece, and students could then consider some follow up questions. E.g:
- Define what is meant by the term overhead
- Explain how overheads affect the breakeven position of a business
- Identify three major overheads that a retailer like Laura needs to control
- What are the potential disadvantages of trimming overheads to their minimum?
Starter activity - teaching communication
The topic of communication at both GCSE and A level lends itself to a fantastic range of activities. Here are a couple I recently tried and they went down an absolute storm.
read more...»Starter Activity - Business Wipeout (1)
Here is an updated version of our popular Business Wipeout challenge…
read more...»3 - 2 - 1 Lesson Lift Off!
Just put this on TES and thought I would share it with everyone. I did it today with my Year 10’s.
3 2 1 Lesson Lift Off is a great bellwork activity to get the students working as soon as they walk through the door…
read more...»Edibility and Danger - An Exercise in Market Mapping
Here is a left-field approach to illustrating the concept of perceptual mapping (Edexcel call it Market Mapping)...
read more...»A Starter Activity Puzzle - What Does This Map Show?
Something a little different for a business studies lesson. Put this image (bigger version linked below) on the screen or whiteboard and ask students if they can work out what it shows?
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