This is a full lesson built to explain Efficiency and market failure for A level Economics students, designed to help them understand the concept of Market Failure, dynamic efficiency, allocative efficiency and productive efficiency.
This resource is designed to match definitions to key terms and covers all of the important Marketing terms any IGCSE Business Studies student needs!
Ideally this sheet takes from 20 minutes to 30 minutes to complete, and ideally in groups of 3 to 5! When I designed this in my school for my IGCSE students and made a competition for the winning team, first to finish wins a prize; all the teams were very engaged and managed to answer all the terms together!
Super fun activity to wrap up learning for this unit and ensure students have a reference to go back to, with highlighted key terms needed for each defintion.
Answer sheets attached to this resource.
Terms are all extracted from the Cambridge IGCSE Business Textbook.
This is a full lesson on Price Changes for Cambridge IGCSE Economics, that teaches students about the shifts in Supply and Demand and how to draw them, as well as the factors that affect shifts.
This lesson is built on the Different market structures for A level Economics, exploring Monopolies, Oligopolies, Perfect competition and monopolistic competition. Lesson has built in graphs and activities.
Slides with key concepts and activities for teaching 1.1 Scarcity in AS level Economics, CIE curriculum. Lesson is inclusive of a starter, main and plenary. Highlights keywords and definitions with checklist on topics.
This is an entire lesson’s worth of content on the Economic Problem through slides/ presentation. Introduces the concept of the Economic Problem to students start off IGCSE Economics.
IGCSE Business: Motivational Theories
Based on Unit 2 Business, Cambridge IGCSE Syllabus
Questions of Trues and False, correct the statement
Excellent for a Starter or Plenary
Helps students remember the following:
3 motivational theorists: Maslow, Taylor and Herzberg
As well as financial and non-financial motivators
These slides cover a series of activities and resource to use to teach the complete Unit 1 from the Cambridge CIE IGCSE Business Studies Syllabus. Below are the topics covered in these slides:
1 Understanding business activity
1.1 Business activity
1.2 Classification of businesses
1.3 Enterprise, business growth and size
1.4 Types of business organisation
1.5 Business objectives and stakeholder objectives
IGCSE Economics: Market systems Unit 3 Worksheet
Ideally this activity can take 20 minutes and be filled in parallel to the delivery of a lesson on Market systems. Or can be given a longer Plenary for 20 mins for students to complete post lesson. This worksheet is a fill in the blanks and defintion covering the below key concepts:
Barter
Profit
Surplus
Shortage
Market Economic System
Mixed Economic System
Planned Economic System
Demand
Supply
A full lesson inclusive of activities and key definitions and concepts on the allocation of resources in different Economic systems. A look at Public vs private sector and the definitions of the 3 economic systems: Planned Economy, Mixed Economy, Free Economy.
This is an entire lesson’s worth of content on the PPC Production Possibilities Curve. Introduces the concept of PPC Production Possibilities Curve to students starting off IGCSE Economics. Accompanied by activities in the slides.
This is an entire lesson’s worth of content on the Opportunity Cost. Introduces the concept of Opportunity Cost to students start off IGCSE Economics. Accompanied by activities.