4 Lessons worth of resources to teach critical path analysis to A-Level standard.
Lesson 1:
Introduction to the idea of CPA, how nodes are structures, calculating EST and LFT, and total float time.
Includes theory and practice of simple critical paths.
Lesson 2:
A number of practice critical path tasks, gradually increasing in difficulty.
Lesson 3:
Theory to discuss or take notes from on the benefits and problems of CPA.
Lesson 4:
A medium difficulty critical path for students to create, followed by a much more challenging example.
Constructive feedback welcome.
A lesson on market conditions.
Lesson Plan
0-10 Students place examples on the scale (slide 3) followed by feedback
10-30 Note taking and discussion on slides 4-9 (types of market structures)
30-45 Students complete the worksheet
45-55 Feedback on worksheet
55-60 What market does_______ operate in activity. Creates lots of discussion.
Hope this is useful to teach a sometimes confusing topic for students. Will also save you lots of time.
Constructive feedback welcome.
A detailed minute by minute lesson plan and worksheet on net present value.
There is an interesting case study and net present value calculation to complete with answer sheet for the calculations.
You could also extent the lesson or set homework to research whether the company has made a good investment as it was a couple of years ago now and more evidence will be available.
PowerPoint on capacity utilisation, with some student tasks/discussion points along with the key facts which can be used for discussion or note taking.
Can be a full lesson if you discuss the issues fully.
Constructive feedback welcome.
A wide range of resources to teach GCSE Business Franchises.
You can follow the structure in the PowerPoints or use the resources in your own way.
There is enough to teach up to 3 lessons.
A range of resources to teach the topic of Business Cycle at GCSE level.
Enough content for one to two lessons.
Includes theory, research and activities.
Designed for GCSE level but might be some use at A-Level.
The best part of the lesson is where students draw a graph showing the business cycle with data provided, they then add to the graph images (provided) of industries/products that will do well in boom or bust which really makes them think and underlines that not all businesses do badly in a recession.
A wide range of resources to cover market research at GCSE level including:
Primary research
Secondary research
Surveys
Focus groups
ICT's and marketing
Starters, activities, groups work, presentations
Several lessons worth of content, use as it is set up or pick and choose the parts you like best.
Include an idea to link to an Apprentice episode involving market research - STUDENTS LOVE THIS
ONE OF MY MOST POPULAR RESOURCES - 3 TO 5 HOURS WORTH OF CONTENT
Links updated as per comment. Thanks for feedback.
A revision resource for students to work through.
Includes topics: sources of finance, business ownership, production, revenue and profit, recruitment and cash flow.
Depending on the speed students work could last up to one hour with discussion of answers and corrections.
5 pages of activities in total.
Designed for AQA Business Unit 1, but would equally be useful for other exam boards.
2 hours worth of sixth form induction lessons for Business Studies or Economics.
Includes lesson plan with timings and guidance. Should be easy to teach and great for the students also. Interesting but useful lesson to test whether students want to study Business Studies.
Has been tried and tested, excellent feedback from students and other teacher alike.
Topics include Marketing, Ethics and Market Structures as well as some group work and discussion tasks.
As per feedback CASE STUDY has been added in editable format if you wish to adjust.
This may not be fully up to date, designed for the AQA GCSE from Sept 2012
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This resources breaks down the AQA GCSE Business Studies course down into lessons for both Unit 1 and Unit 2, making planning and organisation much easier.
It include lesson objectives, learning outcomes and suggested teaching activities for Unit 1. For Unit 2 there are learning outcomes, some objectives and some suggested teaching activities, it is not as complete as Unit 1 but it is all set up ready to use.
I have made a range of resources available on TES that go with the scheme of learning.
It is fully editable if you wish to change or add elements and ideas. There is space to add different lesson approaches, so that you can take a different approach depending on the class or teacher preference. There are hyperlinks to key online resources as well as to other places in the document to save time. You can then use the resources space to hyperlink resources for specific lessons. You will find that resources I have shared go with the lessons on the scheme of learning.
The purpose of this document as well as organising a department is to encourage people to share ideas on the document and to record approaches that work to save time in the long term.
Hope you find it useful in organising the course and saves you time!
An activity to teach consumer protection including consumer protection act, sale of goods and trade description.
Students are given the information and a lit of case studies, in small groups they are to decide whether a law has been broken, which one, why and what action might be taken.
A really engaging lesson as students work together to come to a conclusion.
At the end of the lesson a whole class discussion can be completed to check answers.
IN RESPONSE TO RATING: I am not quite sure what the purchaser was expecting, what I am selling is a way to teach a lesson and the resources needed. I would suggest the following:
0-10 Starter: Write on books/post-its examples of when they think they have been treated badly by a business (and feedback from starter)
10-20: Introduce consumer protection laws
20-45: Put students into small groups and ask them to read the information sheets and work out for each mini case study whether a law has been broken and what law might have been broken.
45-55: Class feedback
55-60: Set your own homework or plenary
Would welcome further constructive feedback.
A selection of resources to teach business objectives at GCSE level. Should get pupils thinking about such an important but difficult topic to teach.
This could be taught in one or two lessons, depending on how long you spend on the activities.
The resource links you to a The Apprentice episode and provides questions which students should answer as you watch the video. You should then discuss their answers.
There is enough content to last up to 90 minutes.
Topics covered include: objectives, marketing mix, production methods, team work, pricing methods, customer service and analysing mistakes made.
A really enjoyable resource ideal for revision before an exam or end of year lessons.
Presentation to use to teach Promotion.
Suitable for GCSE level.
Contains theory, activities and video links for use as a plenary.
One full lessons worth of content.
I have used this in the past to teach sixth formers how to revise effectively.
They often think they know how to revise but many of them do not revise effectively.
Read through the information on the resource and give them some of your own experiences and hopefully their revision and grade will improve.
**Great way to end the year**
This is a unique game where students are split into two halves:
Sellers - these students have set amounts of stock that they need to sell for the best price possible.
Buyers - these students have set amounts of items that they need to buy within a budget.
The game runs over three rounds, to give students the opportunity to reflect and change their approach. It teaches them about supply and demand as well as communication and negotiation skills.
It will last a full lesson if the entrepreneurial skills worksheet is used and class discussion is held at the end to reflect on what happened and why. There is then the creating a mobile phone activity to use - so if done properly with class discussion there is enough for two hours.
The buying/selling game is a real gem, students love it and its great for active/creative learning. I used it at a job interview and it went down very well.
This resource assumes students understand what break even is and how it is calculated.
It provides a scenario for them to research, make decisions and then model whether they would actually be successful based on their decisions made.
The lesson plan would be:
0-10 Recap breakeven
10-25 Research costs and make decisions
25-40 Calculate break even using table, check with calculation .
40-50 Make changes to business price and costs etc, recalculate.
50-60 Whole class feedback
Presentation that covers all ratio's that all A-Level business courses cover.
It is split into 5 to 6 lessons depending on whether you do the project at the end.
It has the information that students need on each ratio that can be discussed as a class or used to make a good set of student notes - in the first lesson or for homework students are to download company annual reports and print the profit and loss and balance sheet to use to complete practice calculations - or you may have a textbook that you prefer to use. Once you have discussed and made notes practice calculations can commence for the rest of the lesson followed by feedback means your lessons are basically planned for you!
Exam style question included at the end.