Super Starter Sunday - Blockbusters
Posted by Amy Chapman on July 12, 2009 in the GSCE Economics blog (score 23.44)....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....
Starter Activities - The Linkedin Discussion Group
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on September 17, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 9.32)....…ongoing. One such discussion is Starter Activities....
Starter Activities - UK Retailers
Posted by Jim Riley on July 9, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 8.98)....Here are some puzzle-style starter activities based around a collection of well-known UK retailers…...
Starter Activity - Pass the Buck
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on November 1, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 8.49)....This is an excellent starter activity that adds pace and competition to a lesson. It’s also excellent for whole class involvement and differentiation. Its very simple and can be carried out in two main ways. I have just done it whilst revising private limited companies....
Starter Activity - The importance of Business
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on December 4, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 8.38)....I’m reading alot these days about thinking skills and ways to develop pupils thinking skills. This is one I adapted from one of the books I am currently reading. Did it with all my classes and the results were incredible. I asked them one simple question at the start of the lesson and gave them 5 minutes to think about…...
Catchphrase - Say What You See!
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on July 20, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.84)....This is one of my favourite starter activities and one which I ‘showcased’ at the recent Business Teachers National Conference in London. Again, such a simple activity that gets the students thinking. Based on the popular TV show with Roy Walker (still showing on Challenge TV), the activity involves students trying to work out key words from visual clues that…...
11 Classic Starter Activities for Business Lessons
Posted by Jim Riley on November 1, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.76)....…last three years are suggested starter activities from our very-own super-blogger Lord Sutch. I’m aware that we’ve added many thousands of blog readers over the last year, so I thought it might be useful to provide links to eleven of those terrific resources. So, here they are…...
Starter/ Plenary - Countdown
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on January 24, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.63)....One of my all time favourite activities based around the classic gameshow....
They’re Here! Our new Business Influence Card Game
Posted by Jim Riley on August 11, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.51)....They are here - tutor2u’s new Business Influence Cards! This is a new teaching resource which can be used again and again in the business classroom....
Starter Activity - The Crystal Ball
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on July 22, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.28)....This is one of my all time favourite starter activities..a belter if you have an interactive whiteboard....
Starter activity - A piece of cake (limited companies)
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on May 8, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.06)....Here is a great activity to use when teaching Ltd’s. Before the students enter the room, I put a £1 monopoly note on each students desk. This immediately makes them curious about what is to follow. I then introduce the basic concept of limited companies and I relate limited companies to a cake, that can be cut up into ‘slices’…...
Beat the Business Teacher - Resource Listing
Posted by Jim Riley on February 1, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 7.00)....…of Beat the Business Teacher starter activities, organised by category. Add this page to you favourites - we’ll add new Beat the Business Teacher acitivities on a regular basis and update this page as wel go along! MARKETING PEOPLE MANAGEMENT Financial Methods of Motivation FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING Bank Finance BUSINESS ORGANISATION & OBJECTIVES Legal Structures for a Business...
Adding Value - Creative Uses of a Aluminium Tray
Posted by Jim Riley on October 5, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 6.92)....One of the starter activities at our AQA-BUSS-ter CPD events around the UK this week involves asking teachers to identify creative ways in which value could be added to a simple aluminium tray. The only contraint to their thinking is that the container cannot be used to transport food. Here are some of the creative ideas that the teacher teams…...
Six superb business lesson activities from Lord Sutch
Posted by Jim Riley on August 29, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 6.79)....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…...
Eddie Stobart Keeps on Trucking
Posted by Jim Riley on May 12, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 6.58)....…has diversified into other transport activities (e.g. running airports). But mainly it is holding up well because of a shift in its roduct mix towards serving UK producers, mainly in the food and drink sectors. A good article here provides excellent background reading - perhaps as a starter resource....
How Much Do I Earn?
Posted by Geoff Riley on February 1, 2011 in the Economics blog (score 6.35)....Many colleagues are teaching labour market economics around this time of year! Accessing up to date information on mean and median salaries for different occupations can open up all kinds of interesting discussions and starter activities. We did one of these at the TeachECON events last autumn involving a starter called How Much Do I Earn? ...
Starter Activities - Linkedin Discussion Group Volume 2
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on October 8, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 6.17)....Here is the ‘second volume’ of starter activities from the linkedin discussion group. Something for everyone!...
Bellwork - What is it?
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on July 4, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 6.16)....When I help deliver some of the tutor2u CPD events, I often refer to a concept called bellwork. So, what exactly is bellwork?...
Economics Scrabble
Posted by Geoff Riley on May 18, 2009 in the Economics blog (score 6.04)....…Sutch for this super revision starter exercise ....one that needs virtually no preparation and can be customised to groups of different sizes. I have drawn from his recent entry on the Business Blog. Many of his creative and innovative starter activities can be found here. Economics Scrabble The students can either play on their own or in pairs or three’s.…...
Starter activity - teaching communication
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on December 26, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.82)....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....
Plenary Idea : Facebook Status
Posted by Ian Pryer on July 10, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.78)....Here is a nice plenary activity that I created this year and have been meaning to share for a while. It has the added bonus of giving you a starter for your next lesson with only minimal work....
Starter Activity: What Why Depends - Developing Thinking Skills
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on February 23, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.77)....…students thinking skills. I love activities that have multiple solutions and this does what is says on the tin. Using it all the time I am for revision at AS and A2. Very simple and very effective. I have a template on A4 with ‘What’ at the top and space to write under, ‘Why’ further down and ‘Depends’ near the…...
Starter Activity: The Distribution of Wealth
Posted by Geoff Riley on August 28, 2012 in the Economics blog (score 5.74)....Here is an idea for a starter activity that came from reading this short piece on inequalities of wealth in the United States and some behavioural research done by Dan Ariely (one of our favourite behavioural economists!). ...
Has Your Team Got the Business? Team Challenge (Week 1)
Posted by Michelle Stephenson on September 3, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.62)....…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…...
Diseconomies of Scale Activities
Posted by Jonny Clark on September 25, 2012 in the Economics blog (score 5.54)....…are a couple of lesson starter resources that you might like to use to illustrate your point....
Starter Activities - Linkedin Discussion Group Volume 1
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on September 25, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.33)....Here is the first volume of starter activities from the linkedin discussion group. All of them real belters….....
Economics Teacher National Conference 2009 - Some Images
Posted by Jim Riley on June 18, 2009 in the Economics blog (score 5.18)....Here is a selection of photos I took at the Economics Teacher National Conference 2009 at the British Library today. It was a really lovely event - terrific speakers and a fantastic audience of enthusiastic Economics teachers. Economics teaching is in good hands… ...
Wipeout - Team Challenge (4)
Posted by Michelle Stephenson on September 18, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.16)....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....
Marketing meets Sources of Finance!
Posted by Ben Cahill on March 20, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 5.15)....It is not always easy to use an example that involves Marketing and Sources of Finance but the following newspaper advertisement from Honda covers both bases. It invites you to go to the Honda website and download a presentation on why leasing a Honda vehicle makes good sense - and even lets you take the credit for the hard work!...
Starter/ Plenary Activity - Countdown
Posted by Graham Prior (AKA Lord Sutch) on May 6, 2013 in the Geography blog (score 5.13)....One of my all time favourite activities based around the classic gameshow.At the start or end of the lesson I put 3 Geography Key Word Conundrums (anagrams) on the board for the students to solve. These can be key words just covered in the lesson (for a plenary) or key words from the previous lessons if used as a starter.The…...
AQA A2 Business (BUSS3) - Influences on Functional Objectives
Posted by Jim Riley on April 6, 2010 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.89)....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....
Takeovers and Mergers - tutor2u Mini Briefs
Posted by Jim Riley on March 4, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.76)....Our takeover and merger mini-brief cards are designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of key M&A transactions. We used this during the recent CPD days on BUSS4 and obtained some great ideas from teachers about how they can be used in the classroom and as a prompt for further student research. The 30 mini-brief cards work particularly well…...
Give It A Go LIVE! 2012
Posted by Jim Riley on July 27, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.72)....…love to create and share activities and other resources which make their classrooms buzz! Give It A Go also has its own blog - come and visit it here. To launch the programme, we’re running two external conferences in London (8 February 2012) and Manchester (9 February 2012). These will be led by our two popular bloggers - Michelle Stephenson…...
BUSS1 Beat the Teacher - the Thinking Skills Lesson Resource for AQA BUSS1
Posted by Jim Riley on October 12, 2011 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.68)....BUSS1 Beat The Teacher is a great way to help test whether students have picked up a thorough understanding of core topics on their AS course so far. Beat the Teacher is a thinking skills activity which involves giving students a page of written text and/ or calculations which contain a number of errors. Students then work individually or in…...
Takeovers and Mergers - the BUSS4 Card Game
Posted by Jim Riley on March 4, 2012 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.66)..... We’ve had lots of fun playing the BUSS4 Takeovers and Mergers card game at the BUSS4 CPD courses this week. The card pack is a terrific way to engage students with the concept of M&A and to build their familiarity with a wide range of recent (and some not-so-recent) major takeovers and mergers. As we have tried the cards…...
Lesson Activity - Using the Business Influence Cards
Posted by Jim Riley on September 11, 2009 in the Business Studies blog (score 4.34)....Here are some suggested lesson activities that can be used with tutor2u’s new Business Influence Cards. Sets of these great cards can be ordered here...
The Facebook Plenary
Posted by Ian Pryer on January 4, 2012 in the Give It A Go! blog (score 4.27)....The Facebook Plenary...
teachECON 2010 - What We’ll Cover
Posted by Geoff Riley on July 6, 2010 in the Economics blog (score 4.16)....Ruth Tarrant and I have started the planning for the teachECON events in London and Manchester in October. Our aim is to provide a day rich in teaching ideas and supporting materials for teaching colleagues to take away with them. There will be five main sessions described further below: The online booking form for teachECON can be found here...
Daylight Saving – the US$2 billion opportunity cost?
Posted by Ben Cahill on March 13, 2013 in the Economics blog (score 4.15)....The concept of opportunity cost is central to economics and should always be considered when analysing the impact of a particular decision. Opponents of daylight saving adjustments use a number of arguments against the idea but the supposedly very significant opportunity cost involved and whether this is a correct application of it makes for a great class starter activity....
Ethnicity and educational attainment
Posted by Jenny Griffiths on February 18, 2011 in the Sociology blog (score 3.96)....Ethnicity and educational attainment...
