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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
Instructions for teachers on how to create and use look up tables within Excel to calculate grades from scores automatically. Equally, you might use these instructions when teaching this skill to students.
I hope these instructions are fairly straight forward. I used Excel 2013 for the print screens, though the skill is similar in whatever Excel version is being used.
Great for staff training. ALL staff should know how to do this to save time when tracking data.
Enjoy!
This lesson is PERFECT for an end of term Computing lesson or as a really FUN introduction to Scratch Programming.
The 17 slide PowerPoint guides acts as your FULL lesson planning, guiding students through the process of making a racing car game in Scratch. It introduces and explains key terms like Spite, Stage and Variable as the lesson goes along too. If you wish, you could give students the glossary handout to complete throughout the lesson as seven key terms have been highlighted in PINK text to be written into the glossary and defined as the lesson progresses (optional extra!).
The lesson includes a short peer assessment activity to look at each other’s games and offer pointers for improvements. In addition, the code on the handout could be annotated by students as a homework task or additional plenary.
The lesson includes an extension challenge for higher ability students (fully differentiated by outcome, task and resources available to students).
This would really suit KS2 or KS3 classes. My students LOVED it; I’ve used it with all of my year 7 Computing groups as a fun end of term lesson AND with my lower ability year 9 Computer Science GCSE group as an ice breaker introductory lesson to programming basics.
Enjoy!
Suitable for any Business Specification where students need to know what Fixed and Variable Costs are. Also discussed (and has an activity) for working out total costs and profit etc.
DO NOT BUY if you already have my TASK 5 for Cambridge Nationals.
This resource includes ALL theory notes, loads of activities.
All top quality.
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Teacher instructions to help with tracking data for departments, school wide or individual class trackers.
These instructions show how to insert an IF statement to compare a grade (for a unit/exam/module etc.) to a target, to show whether it's above, below or meeting target grade.
Two separate instructions for grades A*-G and numbers 9-1.
Ideal for whole staff training. More advanced staff should be adapting the formulae to suit their needs.
Enjoy.
Everything is included! There’s a PowerPoint which guides teachers through the lesson, including speaker notes with additional commentary.
Activities:
Discuss differentiated outcomes / objectives
Mind map ways a business can be ethical
Discussion on ways a business can be ethical
Cut and paste group sort activity ethical or unethical? (hand out/worksheet included)
Discussion on ethical or unethical practice (answers included on PowerPoint)
Design/display work (A3 handout) - students design a new ethical milkshake brand
Differentiation: higher abilities also add how much their brand will do ethically compared to competitors.
Should be quite a fun lesson for what is often a tedious topic. Some good display work can be produced too if students are allowed time to colour/design their brand ideas.
Would also suit PHSE topics on ethical trading/fair trade etc.
This is a four page student booklet that shows an example balance sheet and profit and loss account.
Students should complete all speech bubbles noting what each area of the financial documents shows OR how they’re calculated.
There’s a final question from GCSE Applied Business Studies, outlining the format a good answer would take.
Enjoy!
A quick and easy starter activity.
Students need to name the parts of a computer (leading to my lesson on input, output or storage devices which is also available in my resources).
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Eight product posters that have now adopted brand names as their generally accepted nouns. Includes an introduction poster and conclusion. Whoever views this display needs to select a name they’d call each product… they add up a score and then the higher the score the more influenced someone has been by brand names.
Great for Open Evening, particularly if two learners could lead it to discuss results to prospective parents.
This activity gets students to complete a profit and loss account for the fictional, Shake it up. Students must use all the data on the handout to complete the various activities.
This is part of a differentiated task - there are three handouts which you might give to all students to complete in succession, or group students based on ability.
If basing on ability, this is not the most challenging of the activities.
A short, 6 slide PowerPoint, to introduce your learners to the structure of the Cambridge National in Enterprise & Marketing course.
Editable, so you can make it suit your own time scales etc.
Enjoy.
This 8-page booklet is mapped against OCR GCSE Business Studies J204. This resource includes a printable PDF version AND a PowerPoint version that learners can complete and submit online, via Google Classroom etc.
Answers included in separate PDF document!
Homework sheets on:
The Finance Department/Function
Sources of Finance
Revenue and Costs
Fixed and Variable Costs
Break-even Point
Break-even Chart
Cash Flow Forecasts
If you set one page each week, that’s more than enough for a half term. The pages also act as a good discussion point for a starter in the following lesson too (win, win!).
To REDUCE MARKING - there’s the smallest space for teachers to put 4 ticks to assess each homework. Low stakes, low work-load marking!
This resource depends on you teaching Business Ownership first (sole traders, partnerships and companies).
Students should be given a printed version of the puzzle (the one with two pages). I get them to work in pairs as they can both be cutting at the same time to reduce ‘cutting time’. They both cut out one of the pages then get to work creating a triangle solution by connecting matching statements. There is only ONE way the puzzle will become a triangle correctly, so it’s trial and error but a GREAT task to consolidate learning of Business Ownership topic.
I then get learners to stick their puzzles down on A3 paper (two sheets, because it just sticks over one A3 page). Alternatively, you could cut the puzzle and laminate for year on year use.
I’ve included the solution. To ensure ALL students can access it, I print the solution on A3 paper and stick it in the corridor. Each pair gets a few chances to go out and take a peek, if needed.
Finally, I’ve included a plenary to review the tarsia puzzle and a homework true or false activity on Business Ownership, this might work well as a homework task to see what students have learnt from the puzzle.
Enjoy!
A full bundle of resources from our popular range, covering all the taught aspects of R069 of the updated Cambridge National in Enterprise and Marketing course.
All TAs included.
Visit our website for more useful R069 resources too (loads free!) (Google Mean Business).
A booklet containing six challenges, each increasing in complexity. Ideal for lessons after teaching fixed, variable and total costs. Challenges include calculations for profit towards the end of the booklet.
Great for collaborative learning, this booklet comes as a printable version AND a PDF that can be hosted and completed online for homework or distance learning. A comprehensive answer booklet is also included.
Ideal after teaching OCR GCSE Business Studies Topic 5.3
A short introduction to the Cambridge National in Creative iMedia course.
7 slides that introduce the course structure and each unit. Editable with spaces for you to populate for optional units.
Enjoy.
FULL lesson that introduces Phishing.
Includes starter, 2 main activities, lots of discussion, no computers required, 2 worksheets/handouts, full lesson PowerPoint with all answers included and a lesson review.
1. What is Phishing - discuss and write initial ideas (to show progress on the progress path sheet)
2. Identify pointers of a dodgy email (handout included with extension task)
3. Discussion and answers revealed (including possible answers to the extension task)
4. Poster raising awareness task - includes differentiated success criteria that matches the objectives.
5. Plenary review (on handout) that proves progress.
No additional planning or adaptation required (bonus!).
Enjoy.
Update: The files marked NEW! include a template for this resource which already has the hyperlinks included in PowerPoint; so if you’re tight on time, students can still make use of this resource without having to learn how to make links. Along with this are 6 challenges (differentiated) and a log for students to complete and take with them - PERFECT for Year 6 Induction in a computer room/IT/Computing lesson.
As it’s the end of term, this fun activity still gets students learning about how to add hyperlinks into PowerPoint presentations. The scary maze can be changed for Santa’s maze, if you’re aiming to do something ‘Christmassy’!
The activity gets students to create a version of the ‘scary maze game’ (Google it!). They find a scary image that, if their users hit the wall of their maze, will flash on the screen (after slides are linked). I don’t want students having nightmares though, so I have provided an alternative ‘nicer maze game’ too!
Included is a student handout, PowerPoint to act as a short lesson guide (two versions - scary and nicer) as well as a scream sound for students to use if placed on a shared area.
As always, feedback is welcome! Enjoy!
*Copyright - I either own everything or it comes from an acknowledged, royalty free source!
---This resource is similar to the domino resource, so don't buy if you've already invested in that resource!---
Cut out, match up and stick down exercise OR cut out and laminate for a reusable resource.
Perfect for KS2 or year 7 french, introducing names of animals/pets or for lower ability year 8 groups.
Printing in colour will also help highlight the usage of le/la un/une for masculine/feminine words.
Ideal starter to introduce the words, main activity to reinforce translations or plenary to review a lesson. The presentation can also be printed and laminated for display purposes. Printing on A5 could make it form part of a keyword wall or printing 4 to a page would make ideal flashcards!
Enjoy. Feedback always gratefully received too.
***If you have already bought my lessons on Averages, DO NOT BUY this resource! This is a combination of all four lessons.*** Video preview available below!
This resource combines all four 'averages' lessons into one short unit of work for KS2 or KS3 maths at a discounted price compared to buying them individually (£12 usually in total). Almost a 30% discount here!
The 50+ slide PowerPoint introduces each of the averages separately. Each section/lesson/part includes two teacher led examples (answers on PowerPoint), two activities that students can complete with help/guidance, a longer independent task and review.
All of the worksheets have been combined into a student work booklet to be completed over the series of lessons.
All answers appear on the PowerPoint or on the answer sheets.
Enjoy and, as always, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Ideally suited to KS2 or KS3 French lessons, though would be equally good for KS4 lower abilities.
This resource introduces French names of nine common vegetables in a PowerPoint show. As always, masculine and feminine nouns are colour coded throughout the resource.
The PowerPoint would be equally useful for classroom display. You could even print on A5 and laminate for a keyword wall or print four to a page for flash cards.
Alongside the PowerPoint is a match-up activity. Print this onto card and laminate for longevity or print on paper and get students to glue the matches into their exercise books.
As an additional bonus activity, there's also a 'dominoes' game and instructions included. Printing and laminating this means it can be used over and over. You could even use this in a separate lesson with the same group to reinforce the translations they have been introduced to in the earlier match-up activity.
Enjoy.