A worksheet getting students to apply their knowledge of factors that shift the demand and supply curves and the subsequent impact on price and quantity. Challenges students to look at both single shifts and double shifts.

A model answer to the question from the AQA June 2015 Unit 3 Question Paper Using the data and your knowledge of economics, assess the arguments for and against the UK electricity industry being brought back into public ownership (25 marks)

A model answer to the question: Using the data and your economic knowledge, evaluate whether governments such as those in the UK and China should intervene in labour markets to increase trade union membership (25 marks)

A model answer for the question: With the help of an appropriate diagram, explain how the price elasticity of demand for road travel will affect the total revenue that the government receives if it increases the taxes on fuel (10 marks) Question taken from AQA Unit 1 Question Paper January 2013

A group activity for AS Economics that gets students to work together to decide whether each of the goods is excludable, rival, non-excludable and non rival. You can then get the students to discuss how we define each of the categories, private good, public good, quasi public good etc. Can also lead to a discussion on how these categorisations may have changed over time. The resource includes the teacher answers and a paper copy that students can cut and stick with. My students all have laptops so I just gave them the powerpoint without the answers and got them to drag and drop the answers.

A model answer to the 25 mark question: Using the data and your economic knowledge evaluate the case for and against the government subsidising newspapers and online news (25 marks) from AQA June 2014 Unit 1 Question Paper. The answer includes explanation of public goods, merit goods and the advantages and disadvantages of subsidies.

A game that introduces some economic concepts to new students such as utility, inequality in wealth, objectives and functions of money. The game require each student to be given a small bag of differing amount of sweets, then they follow the three rounds and have a class discussion. I have also included a sheet which I print in A3 then get students to write down what kind of questions economics answer and topics we may study.

Editable pdf worksheet that ensures students can distinguish between the different definitions for the production, cost and revenue topic. It is a useful resource for students to have completed when it comes to revision and develops A01 skills of knowledge by defining key terms with examples. An editable PDF means that text boxes are able to be written in, but you will not be able to change the design of the sheet. This resource should only be used for students with access to computers as printing it will not work.

A fun game that can be used for revision or a starter activity that gets students to identify in teams the negative externalities in the diagram sheet in turn. They will be awarded with 10 points for every correct diagram they select. However, if they choose a wrong diagram there is a wipeout and they start back at zero points. The winning team will be the one who has the most points at the end of the game.

This worksheet gets students to think of (and draw) the characteristics of homo economicus and how useful a theory it is to economists today. There is also a completed worksheet with suggested teacher answers.

Macroeconomic objectives revision activity. The resource includes a blank document for students to attempt and a teachers copy with the answers. For each objective there are definitions, measurements, limitations of the measurements, causes, benefits and costs.

A model answer to the AQA Economics Unit 1 Jan 2012 Exam - With the help of an appropriate diagram, explain why merit goods are often under provide. Adapted into a 10 mark question for the new specification

A worksheet that gets students to apply their knowledge of perfect competition and efficiency in an essay style format answering a 25 mark question. Also contains teacher notes with answers to the eleven questions.

A fun lesson starter that gets students thinking about key terms. One by one a word will appear for a key term definition and students have to guess what the word is. The sooner they can guess the word the more points they get! Click the answer speech bubble to show the answer. The key words I have chosen are: - Division of Labour - Ceteris Paribus - Excess Supply - Productive Efficiency - Joint Supply - Necessity Good - Average Cost - Specific Unit Tax - Short Run - Normative Statement However, the powerpoint is editable so you can include any key words you want.

An A2 worksheet on revenue that looks at total, average and marginal revenue.

This two page economics worksheet is topical for the upcoming elections and could be used as a end of year lesson, for revision, or during lessons on supply side policies. It gets students to analyse the impacts of each of the proposed policies and justify their opinions. The policies are: - Reducing corporation tax - Making university education free - Restricting immigration There are also two extension questions for students who need a stretch and challenge. This resource also includes some suggested teacher answers.

A worksheet for information failure, public goods and minimum prices for students to complete.

This worksheet gets students to apply their knowledge of related markets to comment on the impact of changes in various markets on the cattle market.

A debate worksheet for students to analyse which policy would be best in correcting geographical immobility of labour. The policies include: - Help to Buy - HS2 - Relocation of the Civil Service - Job Centre Plus Also there are three additional evaluation points that could be considered.

A fun starter activity, digging deeper or extension task. The answers are: - Imposing a tax on a negative externality in production - Excess supply resulting from a minimum price above the market equilibrium - External economies of scale - Imposing a tax on a negative externality in consumption (demerit good) - An increase in the productive potential of the economy shown on the PPF curve from either an increase in the quantity or quality of the factors of production - Deriving average total cost from average fixed cost and average variable cost