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High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk

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High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
R067 Topic Area 3 - Costs Do Now Activity
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R067 Topic Area 3 - Costs Do Now Activity

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Short and sweet activity to start a lesson that reviews basic finance calculations in Business Studies. One slide in PowerPoint, answers appear on the slide. For more resources, visit our website - Mean Business! Enjoy!
Calculating Costs DNA - GCSE Business Studies
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Calculating Costs DNA - GCSE Business Studies

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Short and sweet activity to start a lesson that reviews basic finance calculations in Business Studies. One slide in PowerPoint, answers appear on the slide. For more resources, visit our website - Mean Business! Enjoy!
Python Programming Lesson 1a (FREE!). ASCII Art / Print Command - FUN with Python Code
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Python Programming Lesson 1a (FREE!). ASCII Art / Print Command - FUN with Python Code

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This is a fun activity idea taken from my Python series of lessons. IT IS NOT A FULL LESSON, it's just a sample of what my paid resources look like and helps me balance my premium and free resources. My premium resources are all FULL lessons with full differentiated outcomes, student handouts and stretch activities for higher abilities. This particular activity a fun task using Python version 3 which introduces ASCII code and gets your students to create their own ASCII Art from characters using Python Print commands. It's not available in my paid resources, so if you've bought the lessons you should also download this activity! Enjoy.
Reward Coupon - Teacher IOU Template - 8 per page - Positive Behaviour
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Reward Coupon - Teacher IOU Template - 8 per page - Positive Behaviour

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Easy to fill in coupons to reward positive behaviour or good work. 8 per page, so they're small enough to print a shed load and have them at hand when marking or teaching. Teachers just need to fill in the 'IOU' circle with the reward being given (we use VIVOs and just fill in IOU 10 Vivos, but this could easily be house points, commendations etc.) A tangible method of rewarding your students - they do something good, they something immediately. I get students to fill their name in on the coupon and 'post' them to me so I can reward later in the day when it's more convenient! Enjoy, for free!
Blank Timetable Template - can be edited electronically - 6 period day
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Blank Timetable Template - can be edited electronically - 6 period day

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Exactly what the title says! A blank, 6 period day, timetable template. Useful to give to students to copy up their weekly timetable or for teachers to display on the wall to show primary classes which lessons are scheduled for when. Uploaded as a Word document so it can be coloured/typed on to suit. There's a five period day uploaded separately if that helps! Enjoy!
Website Reliability - EXAMPLE PAGE from student booklet
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Website Reliability - EXAMPLE PAGE from student booklet

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This is an EXAMPLE PAGE from my paid resource; an eight page student booklet and six lesson outlines on Multimedia Presentations and Web Reliability. On its own though, this activity is a great starter that gets students comparing two websites and making decisions about which is more reliable. A following class discussion/debate about overall choices should lead to some agreed criteria for what a reliable website looks like or contains. I hope you can make use of this resource, enjoy!
Instruction Sheet - How to link YouTube clips to PowerPoint 2013 onwards Method2
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Instruction Sheet - How to link YouTube clips to PowerPoint 2013 onwards Method2

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These instructions show you step by step how to LINK to a YouTube clip from your lesson PowerPoints. There are more complicated instructions to actually EMBED clips into your presentations within my resources (free). Once set up, you click the link within your presentation and then you'll be taken directly to your chosen clip. This saves having the link, copying and pasting it in, and then loading up YouTube and makes for a more professional approach to presenting your lesson. These instructions are correct at the time of writing and work for most versions of PowerPoint. There's no need to feedback if they don't work for you, it might be your computer/version. Enjoy!
Instruction Sheet - How to embed YouTube clips into PowerPoint 2013 onwards Method1
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Instruction Sheet - How to embed YouTube clips into PowerPoint 2013 onwards Method1

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Here I've outlined one way to embed YouTube clips into your lesson PowerPoints. If this doesn't work, or is too complicated, search my resources for the other method! These instructions go through step-by-step how to embed YouTube clips into PowerPoint. This is a temperamental process, so if it doesn't work, try my other method (don't feedback to tell me it doesn't work, it works for most!). The videos are actually embedded into your presentation so there's no need to visit YouTube. You will need an internet connection when you play the presentation though. Good luck! Enjoy...
Business Proposal - an EASY introduction to Business Studies (display opportunity)
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Business Proposal - an EASY introduction to Business Studies (display opportunity)

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Print this sheet on A3. This is a quite engaging and relatively accessible start to Business Studies, particularly for Year 9 or low ability groups OR useful for PSHE or Enterprise lessons. They DRAW their idea for a business (there’s a shop front, so most will come up with businesses in retail, though could equally be a service based business like Estate Agents etc.). They then design a logo, flyer and come up with a business name. After this (which is a good introduction), I teach GOODS and SERVICES and SECTORS then get them to complete their sheet fully. I also get them to colour and make it look good for display. I’ve also included a version I made for new students who had just arrived from Poland. Enjoy.