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Founded in 2016, Outstanding Resources has grown significantly, leveraging our experience as classroom practitioners to empower educators worldwide. We specialise in creating meticulously crafted teaching resources that embody professionalism and practicality. Designed to give students a great learning experience and achieve fantastic progress. Please explore our collection of resources and discover how Outstanding Resources can support your journey as an educator.
This is a whole lesson on Savings and Investments. The lesson looks at different aspects of savings from why people save, to the varying levels of savings over people’s lifetime. The life-cycle hypothesis theory as well as the impact of changing interest rates. This lesson is ready to go, and is great also for home learning. 20 slide presentation + extra resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides (Life-Cycle Hypothesis and influence of interest rates)
Key Questions
Worksheet x2 (with answers)
Plenary
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This presentation contains a whole lesson on Calculating Inflation. The lesson looks at what inflation is, how to calculate it, with examples, a look at the CPI and RPI and how price index’s are structured. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 18-slide presentation + resources.
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Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides
Examples of how to calculate
Key Questions
Handout - how the RPI is structured
Worksheet (with model answers)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Price Elasticity of Demand 1. This is the first lesson on elasticity. The lesson explains very clearly what elasticity is and its effect on revenue. The lesson also clearly explains how to calculate it with common errors highlighted and explained very clearly. This lesson calculates the PED as a point elasticity not as an Arc Elasticity. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 28-slide presentation + supplementary resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides (explaining elasticity)
Lots of Graphs (with custom animation)
Lots of examples on how to calculate
Key Questions
Double-sided Worksheet (with answers)
Plenary (Elasticity problem - working backwards)
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This is a whole lesson on Monopoly, Monopolies and Market Power. The lesson looks at the reasons for monopolies including natural monopolies. Their advantages and disadvantages, the differences to perfect competition as well as areas like barriers to entry and exit. It is ready-made and requires no prep time. It is also great for home learning. 24 slide presentation + supplementary resources.
The lesson includes:
+ Starter
+ Learning Objectives (differentiated)
+ Keywords
+ Key Questions
+ Excellent teaching slides
+ lots of diagrams (with custom animation)
+ 2 Handouts (to support Student Notes)
+ Worksheet (with answer key)
+ Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Supply and Demand. This is the second lesson combining the two coming after individual lessons looking at factors influencing both. There is a lot of material to cover and it is often a subject that students find conceptually difficult so there is two lesson available. The lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 16-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides (lots of graphs)
Key Questions
Helpsheet - different shifts in supply and demand, what they mean and why they might happen. This is a great revision aid and will help pupils with their notes.
Worksheet (with answers)
Worksheet (multiple choice with answers)
Plenary (self assessment sheet for the four lessons on supply and demand)
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This is a whole lesson looking at Exchange Rates and Conversion Graphs. It firstly looks at the difference between ratio and proportion, which is important for students to understand, then focuses on exchange rates with a quick look at conversion graphs. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 16 slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
a starter (fun general knowledge as a way of leading pupils into thinking about exchange rates)
learning objectives (differentiated)
keywords (looking at the difference between ratio and proportion)
Matching Activity (to help reinforce the differences and also test pupils understanding or ratio and simplifying fractions)
Excellent teaching slides
lots of examples
embedded exchange rate questions (with answers)
worksheets (often for HWK or a 2nd lesson) with answers
Plenary (exam question making a comparison using exchange rates)
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This is a whole lesson on Business Ownership. It uses a fun group activity to learn the different characteristics. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 36-slide presentation + additional resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Key Questions
Video
Main Activity (Group Game)
Handout - Overview of business ownership
Handout - to support student notes on the pros and cons of each
Worksheet (with answers)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Different Aims of a Firm. It goes through the main 6 different aims (profit maximisation, revenue or sales maximisation, ethical objectives etc.) The lesson also looks at the break even point as a precursor to the next lesson on the all the financial calculations. It is also great for home learning. 20-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent teaching slides
Handout (on the 6 different aims to support student notes)
Break Even demonstrator (Excel File)
Key Questions
Worksheet with model answers
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Factors of Production.
This is the first of two lessons. This lesson introduces the different types of factors and explains what they are, then goes on to look at production as a topic and does look at sweatshops and what 21st century production looks like around the world. Students really find this interesting. This lesson is ready to go and is also great for home learning. 21 slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides
Key Questions
Article - on defending production around the world as good with part of the comments written by the public
Worksheet (15 multiple choice questions on factors of production with answers)
Plenary (thought provoking)
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This is a whole lesson on Economic Development. This is the fourth lesson on a series on development. It looks at the difference why there are countries with low economic development and how to bring about development. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 17 slide presentation + lots of resources.
The lesson includes:
+ Starter
+ Learning Objectives (differentiated)
+ Excellent Article on the rise of African Economies
+ Keywords
+ Excellent Teaching Slides on reasons and goals
+ Handout - to support student notes on reasons for low development
+ Key Questions
+ Worksheet (with answers)
+ Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on The Stock Market (GAME). This is the fourth lesson on a large series of lessons on banking and the economics of finance at a macro level. This lesson looks at all the jargon or keywords of the stock market to begin to understand what it all means. However, the lesson is mainly built around the main activity, which is a stock market fantasy share game. The lesson comes with rules and instructions as well as an Excel spreadsheet all set up with applicable formulas to manage it. You can continue the fantasy share game for the rest or for as long as you the teacher like. The pupils LOVE IT! This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 15-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords (student handout)
2 Handouts (to support pupils notes on stock market keywords and jargon)
MAIN GAME ACTIVITY (become Warren Buffets)
Key Questions
Worksheet (with answers) - ideal for homework
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Factors that Influence Supply. This is the first lesson on supply that builds on the previous lesson on demand, before going onto supply and demand. The lesson looks at things from a producers point of view and does start to look at the balance between supply and demand. The lesson does involve plenty of graphs. The lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 18-slide presentation + additional resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides (lots of graphs)
Key Questions
Handout (to support students and with their course notes)
Worksheet (with answers)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on the Pricing Strategies and Price Discrimination and also looks at the conditions needed for price discrimination. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 21-slide presentation + supplementary resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Key Questions
Excellent teaching slides
Lots of diagrams (with custom animation)
Activity
Worksheet (with answers)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on the Size of Firms, Sector of Business and Economies of Scale. The lesson goes through the advantages of being a large and small firm. It looks at different types of economies of scale and reviews different sectors too (primary, secondary, tertiary). It is ready-made and requires no prep time. It is also great for home learning. 18-slide presentation + lots of extra resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent teaching slides
Real-life data and examples
Handout (to support student notes on EOS)
Key Questions
Worksheet (with answer key)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Non-tariff barriers and Game Theory. The lesson looks at the real-life aspects of trade barriers, the emotive and game theory angle by playing the trade barrier game and other great little activities. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 19 slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
+ Starter
+ Economic article
+ Learning Objectives (differentiated)
+ Keywords
+ Excellent teaching slides
+ Key Questions
+ Trade Barrier Game (with accompanying worksheet)
+ Handout (argument against trade barriers for student notes)
+ Plenary
+ Exam Style Question (great for homework) with Answers
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This is a whole lesson looking at Economic Integration. It looks at what it is and very clearly the different stages, with lots of real-life examples. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 23 slide presentation + resources.
This lesson includes:
+ Starter
+ Learning Objectives (differentiated)
+ Article
+ Excellent teaching slides (with lots of real life examples)
+ Handouts (Different stages of integration to support student notes)
+ Worksheet (with answers)
+ Embedded Questions (with answers)
+ Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Economic Aid or International Aid. This is the fifth and last lesson on a series on development. It looks at the need for aid and the positive and negative aspects of aid. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 17-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides
Handout - to support student notes on all the additional development keywords
Video
Key Questions
Activity
Worksheet (with answer key)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Cooperatives. The lesson looks at what they are, their benefits, a comparison to PLCs and a look at cooperatives around the globe. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 20-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent teaching slides
Lots of information about cooperatives around the globe
Handout (on different cooperatives to support student notes)
Key Questions
Matching Activity (with answers)
Worksheet (with answers)
Plenary
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This is a whole lesson on Borrowing and Personal Debt. This is the seventh lesson of a large series of lessons on banking and the economics of finance at a macro level. The lesson looks at different aspects of borrowing from why people borrow, to the varying levels of personal and public debt. Along with teaching slides and supporting understanding pupils are taught about compound interest and have inbuilt activities around this. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 22-slide presentation + resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Excellent Teaching Slides (looking at why as well as compound interest)
Very clear examples
Key Questions
Questions (with answers)
Plenary (typical exam question on borrowing) with model answers
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This a whole lesson on Choosing a Job, Occupation or Career. It looks at wage (financial) and non-wage (non-financial) factors, as well as some of the economics of these choices. The lesson also looks at the impact that education makes with some real-life data. This lesson is ready to go and is also great for home learning. 19 slide presentation + lots of supplementary resources.
The lesson includes:
Starter
Learning Objectives (differentiated)
Keywords
Great teaching slides
Key Questions
Article
Worksheet / Activity with answer key
Embedded Questions (great for homework) with answer key
Plenary
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