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This great selection of resources covers my career as a teacher including resources from Economics and Computer Science as well as resources that other teachers have asked me to develop.

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This great selection of resources covers my career as a teacher including resources from Economics and Computer Science as well as resources that other teachers have asked me to develop.
Santa Claus Spreadsheet
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Santa Claus Spreadsheet

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This little spreadsheet exercise helps students to know where cells are and they then colour them into make a Santa. This is ideal for low-level KS3 students or KS2 students to help them map cells to places on a spreadsheet. (I still can't believe how quiet it kept the year 8's whilst they did it.)
Sentencing Lesson
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Sentencing Lesson

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This lesson shows real crimes and the punishments that people get from them. My law students thoroughly enjoyed the lesson and were quite surprised by the leniency of most judges...
Advertising Agencies
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Advertising Agencies

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This lesson focuses on the role of advertising agencies and what they can do for a company. In the original plan I gave students material to read, but you might prefer to allow them to do a Web-hunt to analyse the role of the agency.
Dealing with Complaints
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Dealing with Complaints

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This lesson shows students a very well written letter of complaint and then encourages them to roleplay how they would deal with such complaints. Originally made for BTEC Business this could also be used for writing letters of complaint in English or as a precursor to a scene in Drama.
Personal SWOT Analysis
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Personal SWOT Analysis

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This encourages students to think about what they are good at, what they need to improve on, the opportunities available to them and what might stop them achieving them. Very handy for PSHE, Drama or Business studies.
Body Language Signals
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Body Language Signals

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This exercise helps students to understand common body language signals that they could be using and if they are a good or bad signal to be giving.
Secret Body Language Exercise
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Secret Body Language Exercise

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In this exercise two people have to say the same script, but try through body-language to convey different messages. Hilarious and really shows how much people communicate through non-verbal communication.
Attitude Quiz - How happy are you?
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Attitude Quiz - How happy are you?

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This little quiz helps you to think about your attitude to life and how you deal with people. Very useful in a PSHE, Drama or business context to get students reflecting on their attitudes.
Life Cycle Handout
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Life Cycle Handout

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This little handout is a bit more engaging than the usual examples given in the textbooks. Please feel free to change for your own examples.
Branding Guide
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Branding Guide

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This is a guide to branding for GCSE Business Studies complete with lesson plan. I hope it is useful.
Make Your Own Elasticity Problem with Sample
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Make Your Own Elasticity Problem with Sample

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As a follow up to an Elasticity class I got the students to make their own Elasticity problems. The resulting effort I thought was good enough to use for teaching and shows how much effort students can put into their work. This can either be used as a straight worksheet or an example for others to make their own scenarios. I hope this is useful.
Using Open Source Software
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Using Open Source Software

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This Word table introduces students to Open Source software and asks why schools are still prepared to pay for commercial software? It is useful for familiarising students and teachers to software types, what is available for free and what benefits a school gets from commercial software.
4 Steps to revision success
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4 Steps to revision success

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A simple PowerPoint Assembly that takes students through 4 steps to encourage them to revise actively rather than simply read material again and again. (Please also see the PSHE tutorial version.)
Creating Gantt Charts using free software
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Creating Gantt Charts using free software

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This little tutorial shows you how to make a Gantt chart using the free software GanttProject. It's a lot easier to introduce project management concepts when they don't have to be bogged down with the complex Maths involved or use software that's not really designed to do it.
Lego Olympics
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Lego Olympics

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We used the Lego Mindstorms Robots for this, but you could use any Turtle or robot to compete in an Olympics. Simply put, we got students from neighbouring Primary Schools to come in and compete for the honour of winning the Robo Olympics. It was a lot of fun and I hope the resource inspires you to do something...
Mindmap of all the English Tenses
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Mindmap of all the English Tenses

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I really just put this together to show off just how capable the Mind Mapping Software could be, but I am sure it must be useful for showing tenses. It was originally part of a series of lessons on learning 2 learn and how Mindmaps could be used to help with revision. The resource uses shortened English, because when I made the original materials I was teaching speaking rather than formal written documents. (For the British Council in Kuala Lumpur)