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Production Methods
Notes and videos on job, batch and flow production
Critical Path Analysis Worksheet
A detailed worksheet with a range of explanations and activities on critical path analysis and completing network diagrams. There are eight activities included, spread over 5 tasks, ranging from step by step guidance as to how the diagram is completed, to float times and identifying the critical path.
I’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for students and teachers to follow.
All answers have been included at the back. Save yourself some marking and give the answers for students to peer mark if you wish!
Market Research
Colourful and interactive lesson on market research (primary and secondary).
The lesson is split into 3 parts. 2 lessons were spent on primary research, the third spent on secondary research.
Each part of the lesson contains a different starter activity (3 starter activities in total, with answers), including fill the blanks< Catchphrase and editable key term challenge.
PowerPoint contains videos, animations and a Mentimeter activity (you will have to have your own account to access this activity)
All activities are optional and most are editable.
77 slides in total and took me two hours to go through with my students.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Full resource (68 slides) on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Included in this resource:
Colourful and interactive title page , including timer and auto date
Catchphrase starter activity (with answers)
Step by step explanation of each need in the hierarchy
Contextualised examples
Trivia activity
Exam skills activity with answers
Fraud and Identify Theft
This is designed as a follow on lesson to my previous financial education lesson on advertising, media and peer pressure but can be taught as a standalone lesson.
Including in this lesson:
Guess the question starter activity
Explanations of types of fraud, such as phishing and vishing
Videos
Activities with answers
Marketing Mix RECAP STARTER
A fill the blanks activity on the 4Ps with emphasis on Boston Matrix
Answers are included
This is useful as a starter activity or plenary
Inflation
Included in this PowerPoint:
A detailed and colourful title slide that outlines the key learning outcomes and equipment required for the lesson
A starter activity where students are required to guess how the price of 5 goods and services has changed over time (closest for each round wins). Students really enjoy this activity
Explanation of why / when inflation becomes a problem, how it affects incomes and sectors where incomes have risen lower and higher than inflation
Explanation in basket of goods / weighted index
Step by step explanation of how inflation is calculated using weighted index
Activity (with answers) where students are required to calculate inflation changes using a weighted index
Activity (with answers) - identify which goods and services have been recently added and removed from the basket of goods
Explanation of difference between demand-pull and cost-push inflation with examples
Diagrams for both types of inflation
Presentation is detailed and colourful throughout
There are 52 slides in total and this presentation took me an hour and a half to go through.
Average Rate of Return
Included in this lesson:
A detailed and colourful title slide, including all learning objectives for this topic
A recap starter activity on calculating the payback period (answers included)
An explanation slide as to what the lesson is about; providing an overview of the problems of relying solely on the payback period as a method of investment appraisal and why other methods are also needed
Explanation of what ARR is
A scenario showing how ARR is calculated
An evaluation of ARR
There are 22 slides in total and it took me around 30 minutes to go through the presentation.
Market Structures and Competition
This lesson can be used either to teach Business students about competition, market structures and how consumers can be affected by anti-competitive practices OR to teach Economics students about the different features of market structures and why competition / a lack of competition affects different stakeholders.
Included in this lesson:
A colourful and detailed title slide outlining the key learning objectives
An income elasticity of demand starter activity suitable for both Business and Economics students (calculation / explain / diagram question). A printable slide of the questions has been provided with a detailed answer key on next slide for peer marking.
A detailed and contextualised example of how a lack of competition affects different stakeholders (Epic Games legal battle with Apple over Fortnite)
Brainstorming activity on competition
A rank in order activity on types of competitive markets
Detailed notes on competition, monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic competition, perfect competition, Game Theory, types of anti-competitive practices such as Cartels, OFT.
This presentation contains 37 slides and took me an hour to go through with my students.
Porter's Five Forces
This PowerPoint introduces the theory of Porter’s Five Forces
Contextualised examples included (including why Apple hasn’t entered the airline example)
Each force is explained individually
Notes provided throughout
PowerPoint is colourful and engaging
Business Location
A 20 slide PowerPoint presentation outlining the qualitative and quantitative factors businesses consider when choosing a business location.
The PowerPoint is colouful, informative and includes a ‘Tenable’ game show PowerPoint where students have to identify 10 common reasons why businesses fail
Marketing Mix - Price
This resource is a 58 slide PowerPoint presentation that gives a comprehensive overview of pricing strategies. Included in this resource:
A colourful title page outlining the learning objectives
A fun catchphrase starter activity where students have to guess the name of a business / product from the pictures given [answers included]
A critical path analysis recap activity [answers included]
An introductory explanation of the importance of pricing products correctly
Detailed explanations with examples of market-based, competition-based and cost-based pricing strategies
Colourful examples provided throughout
Calculation activities [with answers] for the cost-based pricing strategies
Colourful gifs and animation are included throughout
This lesson took me just over an hour to go through with students.
Product Lifecycle
Included in this PowerPoint presentation;
A colourful title slide outlining the key learning objectives
A fun Catchphrase starter activity that my students adore!
An introductory slide explaining what the lesson is about
An introductory game where students have to recognise brands of drinks currently / previously owned by Coke (this activity links into product lifecycle)
A hyperlinked video about the rise and fall of Subway (10 mins in length)
Detailed and colourful notes on what the product lifecycle is and what happens at each stage
A simple class activity where students have to be creative and think about how to extend the product lifecycle for 4 random products (I get students to either stand up and explain their suggestions / draw them)
Colourful gifs and animations are included throughout to ensure full engagement from students
This lesson contains 38 slides and took me a full hour to complete with all the activities included
Market Share
This presentation includes:
A colourful title slide with learning objectives and clickable timer to give students a minute and a half to get down the title
Detailed notes providing explanations of markets, market growth, calculation of market share, how market share increases as well as the benefits of high market share
3 mini activities; 1 - Calculating market share, 2 - Which markets are growing and shrinking in size 3 - Which business is the market leader in 4 different industries
This lesson took me 30 minutes to go through with my students
Franchises / Franchising
This PowerPoint is a 20 slide resource that containd the following:
A colourful title slide with lesson objectives and animations
An editable ‘guess the starter’ activity
Franchising logo activity
McDonalds information video
Notes
Additional activities
This presentation took me 45 minutes to go through with my students
Sales Forecasting, Market Analysis Worksheet
This worksheet contains a range of sales forecasting and market analysis activities. All answers are included.
Included in this worksheet are activities on:
Market share
Interpreting bar charts
Scatter diagrams
Line of best fit
Extrapolation
Moving averages
Positive, negative or unrelated correlation
Demand (SMART NOTEBOOK VERSION)
Please note that this is a SMART NOTEBOOK presentation and not a PowerPoint presentation
Introduction to Marketing
This is an introductory lesson as to what marketing is. Although this resource has been created with the Eduqas exam board in mind, it can actually be used or edited to any exam board.
The lesson contains a number of activities, notes, explanations.
This lesson took me an hour to go through with my students.
Eduqas Business A Level Model Answers
Please find some examples of model answers from Paper 1 of 2022. I’ve included explanations of exam technique on many of the questions.
Please be aware - ARCADE-J is a mnemonic I use with my students for questions that require evaluation, such as Assess, Recommend, Consider, Advise, Discuss, Evaluate, Justify
Demand and the Demand Curve
A PowerPoint presentation on demand includes:
Catchphrase starter activity
Demand activity (graph paper required)
Detailed explanations of demand, reasons for shape of demand curve, movements, shifts, ceteris paribus
This lesson took me 60 minutes to go through