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Super Starter Sunday - Beat the Teacher

Beat the teacher is a great starter activity to get your students thinking and revisiting the topic they have just done.

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Super Starter Sunday - Economics in the news (27/09/09)

This week’s economics in the news covers exchange rates, supply and demand and a change in the retirement age. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Demand and supply in action - fall in demand for apples

Consumption of apples has fallen by 3.2% in the last year, despite Government guidelines stating we need to have our five a day.

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Mnemonic Monday - Functions of the Price Mechanism

This weeks mnemonic will help students remember the functions of the price mechanism.

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Super Starter Sunday - Economics in the news (13/09/09)

This week’s economics in the news covers product placements on TV, mergers and the perils of internet banking. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Super Starter Sunday -  Factors of Production video

This weeks Super Starter Sunday uses a short video to help get students to think about how to improve the four factors of production.

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Super Starter Sunday - Economics in the news (06/09/09)

This week’s economics in the news covers US unemployment, BP, Easy Jet and insurance claims. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Super Starter Sunday - Above or below the line

Something to get a lesson started with students thinking about patterns and links between concepts in Economics. This starter could either be done on an interactive whiteboard or with pen and paper.

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Mnemonic Monday - Exchange rates

Here we go again, its almost the start of the term, you have probably spent all of your holiday money and are raring to start studying again! And so we start back with our first mnemonic of the academic year. This week we are going to look at how a strong pound will affect the competitiveness of exports and imports.

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Super Starter Sunday - Economics in the news (30/08/09)

This week’s economics in the news covers Karen Brady, Iceland, competition, and technological unemployment. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Super Starter Sunday - Quiz

As many of us will be heading back to the classroom next week Super Starter Sunday has returned, it feels like only yesterday that I was signing off for the summer! So I thought a mini true or false quiz on economic happenings over the summer might be a good start for both year 10 and 11.

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Economic recovery in three words

This BBC article is really interesting. The BBC have asked people to explain in three words how they will know when the recession is over. There are some really good ideas like ‘selling my house’ and ‘jobs for graduates’.
This would be a really good starter activity in the new academic year. It could be used to start the Year 11 students off on macroeconomic topics or as a general lead in for the new Year 10 students.

Mnemonic Monday - Cross Price Elasticity of Demand

As with Super Starter Sunday this is going to be the last mnemonic of this academic year, it will return in September. This weeks mnemonic is perhaps a little out of place in the middle of summer!

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Super Starter Sunday - Blockbusters

As the end of term is fast approaching, this week’s Super Starter Sunday activities will be the last until September. I am sure many of us remember Blockbuster, here we will put an economics twist on the game show. This activity could be used as a starter, plenary or an end of term lesson.

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Mnemonic Monday - Factors that shift supply

Last week Innes looked at factors that cause the demand curve to shift, so it naturally follows that this week I should do factors that cause the supply curve to shift. I find students have more difficulty remembering supply factors, perhaps because it is less familiar to them.

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Super Starter Sunday - Just a minute or two

As we get towards the end of the year pupils should have gathered lots of knowledge. A good way to test that knowledge in a fun way would be to play just a minute or two.

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Mnemonic Monday – Factors that shift demand

One of the most important skills at GCSE Economics is to be able to identify factors which shift the demand and supply curves, especially in the OCR paper where an almost identical 12 mark question appears every year without fail.  Here is a check-list of factors which will shift the demand curve ( and yes… you’ve guessed it - next week there will be a mnemonic on factors leading to a shift in the supply curve)

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Super Starter Sunday - Who am I?

It’s Sunday again, so time for another starter activity. This one could be done as a who or what am I. It is a good way to get the class thinking and talking to each other about economics.

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Starter activity - Why is it funny?

Many thanks to Anne Logan (Methodist College Belfast) for suggesting a simple starter activity that can get GCSE Econ students engaged with breaking economics news stories.  The idea is very simple - show a recent Kipper Williams cartoon and ask the students to explain “why is it funny”?

Mnemonic Monday - price elasticity of demand and total revenue

Today we are going to look at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and total revenue. For GCSE (and A Level) students it is sometimes difficult to remember what a business must do to price in order to increase total revenue.

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Super Starter Sunday - Play your cards right

This might take a little preparation but will get your students thinking at the beginning of the lesson and if used regularly may encourage them to keep up to date with economic figures.

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Super Starter Sunday – Economics in the news (21 June)

This week’s economics in the news covers unemployment, car sales, bank bonuses, Thailand’s economy, and the beginning of the end for two well known companies. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Mnemonic Monday - Economies of Scale

This weeks mnemonic is great for learning the types of economies of scale. Economies of scale are defined as when a firm grows larger long run average costs fall.

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Super Starter Sunday – Economics in the news (14 June 2009)

This week’s economics in the news covers unemployment, oil prices, protectionism, and the end of the recession. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Super Starter Sunday - Odd one out

Another Sunday, another super starter to get some lessons off to a good start this week. This week I have decided to go with odd one out. Below there are sets of statements, students must spot the odd one out, they could also explain why it is the odd one out.

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Mnemonic Monday – Government’s main macroeconomic objectives

This week’s mnemonic is the basis of my macroeconomic teaching. It allows you to set up a really good wall display, possibly featuring Tony the Tiger.

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Super Starter Sunday – Economics in the news (7 June 2009)

This week’s economics in the news covers unemployment, the exchange rate, Alan Sugar and interest rates. The pupils have to guess the news stories using the pictures. Each picture has an explanation and web link behind it.

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Mnemonic Monday – Price elasticity of supply

This week’s mnemonic is for factors affecting price elasticity of supply

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Super Starter Sunday - What is the question?

A good way to get the lesson going after half term. Give your students the following five words, these are the answers, then ask them in groups to think of the question that goes with each answer.

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Mnemonic Monday

I intend to add a new mnemonic to this blog every Monday. Today: factors affecting price elasticity of demand.

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