High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
A FULL lesson that introduces your students to four network topologies (bus, ring, star and mesh).
The PowerPoint will equally double as a really useful resource for revision, if printed or made available electronically to your learners.
Lesson plan and student handout included which asks them to draw topology diagrams and give advantages/disadvantages of each topology.
Enjoy!
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FULLY RESOURCED set of lessons and ASSESSMENT. See the topic list below.
This resource includes:
33 slide PowerPoint (this is also REALLY useful if given to students for revision, deleting instruction slides)
9 page work booklet for students to complete with lots of activities
Quiz on Von Neumann Architecture
Answers to the quiz
Test on system architecture (40 marks) to assess progress in this unit
Test mark scheme
A 16 page revision booklet for students (this is the adapted lesson PowerPoint without instructions etc.)
These resources have been mapped against GCSE OCR Computer Science (J276), Computer Systems Unit (J276/01) 1.1 System Architecture, though are useful for anyone teaching the following topics in Computer Science (any spec!):
Hardware and Software
Input and Output devices
Internal components of a PC
The CPU
Parts of the CPU / registers
Von Neumann Architecture
Factors impacting on processor speed
Cores
This is a History Version of my Plenary Selector Wheel featuring 8 plenary activities to end a lesson.
Spin the wheel on slide 1, select a student to say stop, stop the wheel and click the plenary that’s selected. Quite a fun way to end a History lesson.
8 Plenaries:
Write a short diary entry to review learning.
List and define **key terms **used in the lesson.
Set your own homework.
One minute discussions about learning.
Exit Scrolls (History version of an Exit Note). Resource provided - print a stock of these in case it’s landed on!
Pyramid Review. Resource provided - print a stock of these in case it’s landed on!
Write a letter.
Compass Points. Resource provided - print a stock of these in case it’s landed on!
Macros should be enabled for this to work, just click enable if asked when opening the resource.
Supporting material provided. Copy a load and have them to hand just in case that plenary pops up!
As always, COPYRIGHT FREE imagery used throughout or created by me. All text and design work is my own. Ideas are also original.
Enjoy.
Everything you need to teach Sole traders and teach it well - perfect for an observation.
Differentiated learning outcomes included on the presentation. The presentation would also be useful printed as some stage for revision for your learners.
The two activities include sorting advantages and disadvantages of sole trader ownership and an extended writing question. The lesson includes marking sheets that have space to match the work completed in this lesson to success criteria and space to give WWW and EBi (gap task).
This really is value for money. To get even more value, use the plenary from the last slide in some of your other lessons - it's not lesson specific and is quite a nice end to any lesson.
Enjoy!
This 9-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!
Activities on:
Entrepreneurs
Business Plans
Sole traders / Partnerships
Limited Companies
Business Ownership (liability)
Aims and Objectives
Stakeholders
Business Growth
GREAT FOR HOMEWORK! 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.
All six of my homework booklets for GCSE Business Studies at a discounted price.
Each booklet has eight homework activities that are mapped against OCR’s GCSE Business Studies new specification for first assessment in 2019 (9-1).
These booklets have so much cross over that they could be used for ANY specification or even some AS level courses.
Enjoy, with over 15% discount!
This lesson introduces students to the different connections available for digital devices (wired and wireless connections). Students should mind map their own ideas first, before answers are revealed (click on the slide to reveal answers!).
Students must then research OR use the support sheet to group advantages and disadvantages of each connection type.
On the back page of the booklet is a review of the lesson where students must decide on the BEST method of connection; there are more answers, but the IDEAL answer is shown on the PowerPoint itself and students should be told this!
Enjoy!
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!
Please note: Fortnite is obviously not my product, this is for education purposes only, NOT for sale, and no copyright material is used within this resource AT ALL.
This editable single slide starter has space for five differentiated questions and is based around a Fortnite™ theme. It’ll make the start of your lesson a little more engaging and should grab the attention of boys in particular, as well as making you look cooler!
You MUST follow the question categories in order (below) otherwise they’ll catch you out and it’ll show you know nothing about Fortnite! Categories are based on the rarity of weapons within the game.
Common - easiest question
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary - the most difficult question
Alternative use: You could put more than one question in each box and direct different groups of students to complete each box.
Fortnite itself is PEGI rated for players 12+ - so not a good idea to use this in a Primary setting.
IMPORTANT:
I have compiled this guide myself. All of the text is my own and the images are taken from me using the Tarsia software (which is free to download). I have got permission from Hermitech Lab to use the print screens within the guide and confirmed this does not break any licence agreement. They were more than happy to give permission for me to upload my guide to Tarsia and, I quote, "would like to thank you for your efforts, it's very important for us to know that our software is being used and useful."
This is a short guide to using Tarsia, the free Teaching and Learning aid to create jigsaw puzzles QUICKLY for use within the classroom.
I use Tarsia a lot and even laminate them for use over and over, year in year out! This guide would be perfect to use for in-school training to get more staff to make use of the program, as it can look a little daunting at first.
The guide briefly introduces how to make your first Tarsia puzzle and gives hints and tips for the classroom.
Any questions, please let me know.
Enjoy...
NEW! See a preview below. Part of a series of lessons for KS2 or KS3 maths on Averages. This lesson introduces the Mode. All four averages lessons are listed separately OR as one short unit of work at a discounted price, just check my other resources!
The PowerPoint introduces the mode average then gives two teacher led activities to guide students through working out the mode. After each teacher led part, the students get a chance to try themselves, where they can ask questions or even work in pairs.
After discovering what the mode is and having a go with help, students are given an independent task to work out the mode.
An answer sheet is provided for the teacher too, and all answers pop up on the PowerPoint itself!
The lesson is reviewed by students feeding back at the bottom of their handout. All images are either royalty free or made by myself (those coins and football shirts took some work!).
Enjoy ;-)
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This is part of a series of lessons for KS2 or KS3 maths on Averages. This lesson introduces the Range. All four averages lessons are listed separately OR as one short unit of work at a discounted price, just check my other resources!
The PowerPoint introduces the range average then gives two teacher led activities to guide students through working out the mode. After each teacher led part, the students get a chance to try themselves, where they can ask questions or even work in pairs, these appear at the top of their handout.
After discovering what the range is and having a go with help, students are given an independent task to work out the range.
An answer sheet is provided for the teacher too, and all answers pop up on the PowerPoint itself!
The lesson is reviewed by students feeding back at the bottom of their handout. All images are either royalty free or made by myself (those coins and football shirts took some work!).
Enjoy ;-)
I designed this lesson plan outline for my department years ago. Having seen 6 million lesson planning formats, I decided we needed one that was quick, easy and, most importantly, all on one sheet (one compulsory planning document from my training days was SIX pages long!).
Having your plan all on one page actually makes it USEFUL. Everything is included, just change the blue text to be your planning. Try to be as minimal as possible though, you'll follow it if it's quick to reference.
This lesson plan includes objectives, outcomes, starter, mains, plenary, homework, lesson pace (timings), differentiation, support staff and links to numeracy/literacy. Any more than that and it's not useful, but the document is editable so feel free to make changes as you wish.
This would be perfect for new teachers/trainees. It's also GREAT to hand to a classroom visitor so they get the gist of the lesson - I know this isn't a requirement but, as a frequent observer myself, it's still really nice to see what's gone before/will come after my ten/twenty minutes within the classroom. An A4 sheet can do a lot!
Enjoy.
See a video of this resource below! SUCH VALUE FOR MONEY… USE OVER & OVER AGAIN!! This plenary or starter activity gives students thirty seconds to remember ten key terms/words from the lesson or a previous lesson. Students then have forty-five seconds to recall as many of the words as they can - teachers could also insist on correct spellings to add a literacy element to the activity.
It comes with sounds, which I hope work.
All teachers have to do prior to a lesson is change the key words to be relevant to the subject/lesson they’re teaching.
All text/ideas are mine. Images are public domain if not created by me and the backing music is royalty free.
Enjoy.
---This resource is similar to the match up resource, so don't buy if you've already invested in that resource!---
Students need to cut out each of the 10 cards (each card has two halves like a domino). They must then match the French to the English to translate the names of animals/pets. This should lead to them having a long matching string of cards from start to finish, like a row of corresponding dominoes.
This resource could be cut out and laminated to form a reusable game.
Perfect for KS2 or year 7 french, introducing names of pets in French 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.
Enjoy. Feedback always gratefully received too.
TWO RESOURCES for the price of ONE with PowerPoint visual for whiteboard to reveal answers/lead discussion and DISPLAY/FLASH CARD resource potential!
1) Colour translation dominoes game = Students need to cut out each of the 10 cards (each card has two halves like a domino). They must then match the French to the English to translate different colours. This should lead to them having a long matching string of cards from start to finish, like a row of corresponding dominoes. This resource could be cut out and laminated to form a reusable game.
2) Colour translation cut ,match and stick activity = Students need to cut out each of the cards and match the French colour names to the English. Again, this resource could be cut out and laminated to form a reusable game.
Perfect for KS2 or year 7 french, introducing names of colours in French or for lower ability year 8 groups.
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.
It's a great idea, at the end of a topic or unit, to get students to create their own quizzes. They can then complete one another's to test their understanding or to revise a topic.
I've created a PowerPoint template for students to be given to produce a quiz. The PowerPoint is fully linked because the main purpose of this type of activity is the questions and the answers, not the linking together! This also means this activity lends itself to ANY SUBJECT and a range of year groups.
There are ten question spaces, students can easily use 'duplicate slide' to add more questions though. As an extension, whilst other students complete their work, students can improve the look of their quiz or add further elements.
This activity comes with a peer assessment sheet - the idea being that students should be given the opportunity to complete one another's quizzes (further recapping and revising a topic) and 'rate' them on various criteria. This sheet is in word format, should teachers wish to add to or amend the criteria. As the sheet is editable, it could be used for other peer assessment evidence - as you're paying for this resource it's worth adapting to get the best value for money!!
Overall, a fun activity leading to quite an interactive peer assessment activity. Teachers don't need to be skilled in the IT behind the linking/functions of the quiz - just make it available on a shared drive for students to take a copy of before completing it! Enjoy.
An eight page student booklet and accompanying outline of six lessons of work that gets students to create a PowerPoint presentation about either the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot to include text, links, images and sounds.
This is a fun, short unit of work suitable for Key Stage 3 ICT or Computing lessons.
I must stress that, unlike some of my other resources, this is not a pick up and go, fully planned unit of work. It is an engaging student booklet that is GREAT for collating evidence of student work and it is a collection of six lesson OUTLINES. Teachers will need to add to this in order to fully teach reliability and skills in producing a multimedia presentation.
I'd see this as a perfect first unit for either year 7 or 8 to get them started for a year of engaging ICT or Computing lessons.
Enjoy! Any feedback is, as always, greatly received.
'Understanding Computers'; scheme of work and accompanying student booklet for Key Stage 3 Computer Science. Fully planned and resourced, print and go.
The unit of work has been referenced against the new KS3 programme of study for Computing. The unit includes short topics on hardware, software, devices, input, output, storage, binary numbers, convergence and future technologies and is a good basis for an introduction to computers. This unit would ideally suit year 7 or 8 students and has elements of differentiation throughout to allow teachers to deliver the same unit of work to multiple ability groups (save on the planning!).
The scheme of work should also give you some fresh ideas for more creative teaching strategies in Computing.
*Copyright Notice* I have produced this under the name Barnett Education (that's me!). All text is mine, all images are public domain and are credited (p.12 student book).