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
Ideal plenary to an E-Safety lesson, or an ice-breaker to a PSHE Internet Safety session. There is a sound track to the first slide too; save everything to one folder - if it doesn't work you may need to set it up! Macros enable the shapes to move, so make sure they are enabled when a warning appears.
Hope you enjoy!
Print in colour and laminate. Designed on A3, so they won't pixelate if printed in big!
Ideal for any primary classroom to visually show the three symbols.
Enjoy.
A short PowerPoint presentation to be used as a quick starter activity in a Computing or PSHE lesson focusing on Internet security.
Students are given some brief information about password security (choosing a secure password) before being asked to rank 5 passwords (most to least secure).
A quick resource that may provide a good discussion when the answers students have given are revealed!
Enjoy, your feedback is always valued!
Exactly what the title says!
A blank, 5 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 are two versions of the five period day to suit when you may have lunchtime. There's a six period day uploaded separately if that helps too!
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).
Enjoy!
Descriptions of 10 famous people in business.
Great for a small display.
I’ve cut the answers off mine - you could cut these out separately and dot around the display so learners just have to match them up - or perhaps cover the names up.
PDF format as it’s unlikely you’ll have the font to match.
Students need to sort the hardware into input, output or storage device. There's a handout which could be printed, cut and glued into a table or printed and laminated to enable a paired or group sort activity.
A nice main activity for any Computer Science lesson.
Enjoy!
An A4 sheet that asks learners to calculate fixed, variable and total costs from a given scenario.
Comes as a printable PDF, a fillable PDF that can be hosted online and with an answer sheet too.
**Perfectly suited to topic 5.3 of the GCSE OCR Business Studies course.
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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!
Obviously I don't own the music, but it's a free resource!
A simple PowerPoint which gives your learners one minute to complete a task/discussion/thinking time.
Enjoy, for free!
I've been doing some work on planning for questioning and come up with this presentation as a tool to improve my questioning technique.
I plan the questions I am going to ask and use Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce (NOT MY IDEA!) - I think this is a concept from Teacher Toolkit, though I could be wrong. My idea is the planning tool and the wait time.
Teachers should write their planned questions on separate slides using the template, perhaps moving the circle in the top right hand corner to identify whether the question is open or closed (this helps me to ensure the majority of the questions I ask are open questions).
Use the tool for a starter or plenary by showing the question (by clicking the yellow POSE button). Allow 15 seconds thinking time (by clicking the PAUSE button), the soothing Jeopardy music will play. Click POUNCE to ask for an answer from the student and then BOUNCE to ask the student to select someone who will answer the next question (or the teacher could do this).
I hope this helps!
Enjoy.
An editable template for a great starter activity (or plenary/review!).
Simply change the questions on the wooden panels. Delete and resize if you need less panels.
The 2nd slide is differentiated, so the more challenging questions are at the end.
I don't own the format, obviously, so this resource is shared for free. I add the theme tune too, but for copyright reasons I can't share on TES!
Enjoy!
Print this sheet on A3.
This is a quite engaging and relatively accessible start to Business Studies, particularly for Year 9 or low ability groups OR useful for PSHE or Enterprise lessons.
They DRAW their idea for a business (there’s a shop front, so most will come up with businesses in retail, though could equally be a service based business like Estate Agents etc.).
They then design a logo, flyer and come up with a business name.
After this (which is a good introduction), I teach GOODS and SERVICES and SECTORS then get them to complete their sheet fully. I also get them to colour and make it look good for display.
I’ve also included a version I made for new students who had just arrived from Poland.
Enjoy.
Easy to fill in coupons to reward positive behaviour or good work. 8 per page, so they're small enough to print a shed load and have them at hand when marking or teaching.
Teachers just need to fill in the 'IOU' circle with the reward being given (we use VIVOs and just fill in IOU 10 Vivos, but this could easily be house points, commendations etc.)
A tangible method of rewarding your students - they do something good, they something immediately. I get students to fill their name in on the coupon and 'post' them to me so I can reward later in the day when it's more convenient!
Enjoy, for free!