A business teacher and HoD for 13 years in schools and FE, I also work with Pearson as an examiner.
I am passionate about business and the learning process itself. I pride myself on excellent classroom resources, activities, revision booklets and power points.
I hope you will find a range of differentiated resources, knowledge organiser's and activities that will support you and your students achieve success
A business teacher and HoD for 13 years in schools and FE, I also work with Pearson as an examiner.
I am passionate about business and the learning process itself. I pride myself on excellent classroom resources, activities, revision booklets and power points.
I hope you will find a range of differentiated resources, knowledge organiser's and activities that will support you and your students achieve success
A level study companion for students (Edexcel)
Fully editable
Includes:
Course content,
wider reading
specification documents
marking grids
How to answer - structures for exam questions
Revision template focusing on A01, A02, A03 and A04
Enterprise and entrepreneurship starter slides/revision
5 question, knowledge recall starter slides or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year!
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions as the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases on our students.
Theme 1.5 Understanding the external business environment
A selection of starter slides with 5 questions each and a 5 minute timer, designed to revisit old content and improve knowledge recall.
These slides are all specifically based on theme 1.5. They are fully editable should you want to cut and rearrange the order of questions, or mix and match them with any of my other start questions to ensure that essential theme 1 learning is not forgotten as students progress through the course.
Answers are animated to allow time for teachers to expand and give additional detail. Specific attention and duplication has been given to questions that are often harder to remember or are systematic misconceptions in the exam
2.1 Growing the Business starter slides, revision, recall activity
5 question and knowledge recall starter sliders or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases
2.3 Making operational decisions starter slides, revision, recall activity
5 question and knowledge recall starter sliders or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases
2.2 Making marketing decisions starter slides, revision, recall activity
5 question and knowledge recall starter sliders or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases
2.4 Making financial decisions starter slides, revision, recall activity
5 question and knowledge recall starter sliders or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases
These slides also come with 2 printable starter sheets, as these questions contain graphs and charts that students need to use to access the information for the questions
This resource is the cumulation of many hours of work, and has been encouraged by those who purchased the first theme 1 quizzes and starter documents I produced - thank you for your support.
This includes 2.1-2.5 (plus some extra) starter/quiz slides with answers. These all include around 5 questions per slide and a 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases.
Worksheet have also been provided for 2 of the slides in section 2.4
The pack is also supplemented with the Study companion, which includes a range of knowledge organisers or simple summary sheets where are highly visual, glossary with tick sheet for each section of the syllabus and personal learning checklists that students can use to check their progress.
There should be something for everyone in this pack!
2.5 Managing human resource decisions starter slides, revision, recall activity
5 question and knowledge recall starter sliders or quizzes with 5 minute timer for students to view. Great way to start lessons, or use as a revision tool later in the year.
Fully editable, so you can change and mix up the questions are the year progresses to revisit older areas of the curriculum. An increasingly important tool for the classroom as the demand for knowledge increases
2.1.1 and 2.1.2 Assessment
A selection of MCQ and short answer questions for use at the beginning of teaching Theme 2.
40 minute, 36 mark assessment which students should be able to start self-assessing in class to reduce marking.
Can be used in conjunction with the Personal Learning checklists, to indicate students current understanding of each theme at the beginning of the year.
**The Complete Revision Pack for GCSE Business students for Theme 1 **
Knowledge Organsiers Topics 1.1 -1.5
Booklet contains key factual information in the form of knowledge organisers. Key information topic by topic reduced into key notes and bullet points supported with images and colour to aid retention. Can be used as revision packs by students or printed onto A3 as knowledge mats for use within the classroom.
Glossary and Key terms Topic 1.1 - 1.5
Back of the booklet contains key terms glossary for each of the topics - sub-divided for easy reference. Not only great for students, as the lists include a check box to use when key terms have been secured, but also great to use within the classroom to support students with literacy or other SENd requirements - excellent differentiation.
The Changing Landscape of Business
Powerpoint with activities for a lesson based on the changing landscape of business. Include quantiative skills development with a graph activity to demonstrate the changes to the different industrial sectors over time. Can also be used to introduce the concept of % change that students on this new specification have to learn.
My students are now starting to remember % change calculation to be DDO (difference, divided by original) - we are using repetition to retain this one!
9-1 GCSE Business Edexcel The Role of Business and adding value
Activities to support discussion, notes for student books and key terms to support learners
**9-1 GCSE Business Changing Technology and the concept of obsolescence **
L3 around the concept of change, dynamic businesses and obsolence.
Great talking points for students/staff - even better with props think pager, CD walkman, casette player. Also useful to prepare for second lesson about trends and resurgence (think record players).
Starter for % change
Whole lesson based on break-even and Bob’s Burger business.
Calculate total fixed and variable costs, before completing a spreadsheet of revenue and total costs to produce a break even chart. Exam style questions then follow to support learning.
Independent task, with stop and review points allowing students to work at their own pace.
Powerpoints to cover the first part of the 9-1 Business specification Theme 1
Including;
Small businesses
The changing landscape
Changing Technology
Changing tastes and preferences
The role of business
9-1 GCSE Business Assessment 2
Can be used as an assessment, ‘walking-talking mock’, home work or review activity.
To be used alone or in conjunction with the Assessment 1 2.1.1, 2.1.2 MCQ paper, to give a range of question types.
Formed using old specification questions with small tweaks to suit the new assessment methodology and command words.
Mark scheme also provided
Includes personal learning checklist booklet for students to RAG their own progress, and revision booklet with knowledge organisers and key terms for Theme 1.
Theme 2 resource to follow . .
Worksheet/Instruction sheet for completing BTEC Specification Profit and Loss questions
using SAM’s question to outline the steps, process and key knowledge to access the exam questions on Profit and loss accounting, including depreciation.
*A simple how to guide for the new 9-1 command verbs found on GCSE Business Papers
Can be given to students in exams to support their technique, in class whilst practicing and answering questions or in conjunction with home work to embed the skills needed to give the examiner what they are looking for.
Written following a GCSE exam training workshop, to ensure all the information about the structure was included whilst still fresh!*