The opening weeks of the new AQA A-Level Business course provide an excellent opportunity to get students making decisions, debating trade-offs and applying Business concepts from the outset.We have developed a growing collection of free interactive simulations and classroom activities to help teachers do exactly that.

Four are particularly well suited to new classes:

Market Mayhem is our hugely popular, fast-paced share-trading game. It works brilliantly as an ice-breaker while introducing shares, investment decisions and the effect of new information on share prices.

Risk It for a Biscuit puts students in charge of a new artisan business and asks them to navigate its first 12 months, revealing the entrepreneurial characteristics demonstrated through their decisions.

Hard Calls presents seven realistic dilemmas involving profit, ethics, shareholders and wider stakeholder interests.

Fishy Business divides the class into four competing firms using the same fishing ground, bringing the tension between short-term profit and long-term sustainability vividly to life.

These are just four examples from our much wider collection, which is organised around the new specification and includes simulations and teaching activities across marketing, finance, people, operations, strategy, change and the external environment. Downloadable teacher materials are also available to support classroom use:

Here is the link to clink for the AQA Business Simulations

Alongside the activities, teachers can access our comprehensive and growing collection of free teaching PowerPoints for the new specification. These can be downloaded, adapted and incorporated into departmental schemes of work:

Teaching PowerPoints for the AQA A-Level Business Specification (first teaching 2026)

All of these resources are free and designed to save teachers preparation time while helping students engage actively with the new course.