Here are 8 different cover lesson activities for business/economics. they all follow the same format of creating a PowerPoint for students to create while you are away. they can be used as a revision activity to go through some major topics in business. Can be used for GCSE or A-Level. I

Here is a package of quick activities and a worksheet to help teach revenues, costs and profits. Can be used at a starter, plenary and also a homework. 6 resources are included in this pack

This is a very basic introduction to what the boston matrix is for a group of students thinking about taking the subject for A-level. It does not include the limitations or examples so you are free to add all of that yourself. I only used this for about 10 mins in the taster lesson before giving them a task (I cannot take ownership of the task therefore I did not upload - I got it from two teachers shop on tes) Feel free to download for free and adapt as much as you want.

Here is all of the key terms for Edexcel GCSE Business Theme 1 and 2. Print them out, laminate and cut to use as a key term revision resource. Now with added A-Level terms too! Save yourself some time!

Here are all the key terms from the A-level Business course. Covers all 4 themes for Edexcel Print them out, laminate and cut out and there you have all the key terms that students can pick out and quiz or be quizzed on! now with GCSE terms included

a range of short term and long term finance options. nice and easy who am I activity.

A blank Market Map. change it as much as you want! jut here to save you a bit of time

A starter designed at my GCSE class just to practice working out how to use interest rates and comparing methods of finance. Feel free to change and adapt. Answers: Q1 - 22.5% Q2 - £11,750 Q3 - £500 saved Q4 - 50% Q5 - 25% Q6 - open to yourself what is the right answer but basically because the bank offer a lower rate because they get more profit in the long term with the larger loan. Extention included. Thanks, philholt86 now added an extra quick questions resource. just added a new short activity which can be used as a starter or a plenary

this resource is aimed at re-enforcing the topic segmentation. students are to segment the car market by researching a range of cars and deciding who that car is targeting. tailored with the EDEXCEL spec in mind but can be altered to suit others. Thanks just added new quick activity resource - 5 quick questions that can be used as a starter or a plenary

Resources aimed at the first lessons in business studies. Really simple and introduces the first topics of business/marketing 2 PowerPoints covering; Customer needs and wants Market Research (Primary and Secondary) Quantitative and Qualitative Activities built in both 2 worksheets Homework sheet Key Terms Test sheet Hope this helps.

Students can use the computers and Internet to complete the worksheet on distribution channels Pretty straight forward to use, helps the students come up with examples of the different types and the advantages and disadvantages of each. I used after introducing the theory or sometimes a homework task Hope this helps

An A3 document that recaps the main aims of consumer law on one side. The other side is a mini case study aimed at the sale of goods act. 3 questions - what, identify and explain. Can be used as a class activity at the end of the topic or as a homework. hope this helps

A revision resource for employment law Can be used for revision or homework of to simply recap the topic. The box activities are straight forward and so too are the responses. Set up on A3 paper, landscape and ready to print. The answers for the gap fill are: Total Comply higher jobs increase equipment specialists

I used this video of rogue traders (mis-fueling business) to show my GCSE class to show the a business behaving unethically and also consumer protection and rights. The worksheet is fairly straight forward and the students complete is as they go along. Then you can finish by discussing their responses as a class or amongst themselves. hope this helps an otherwise quite dry topic. Thanks

A computer research task aimed at looking at how McDonald’s offer different products in different markets home and abroad. I used this when teaching Glocalisation and used it as a homework task also. It gets the students to find out about the different products that McDonald’s sell abroad and seeing why they do that. Customer preferences Understanding different markets/customer/economies Capturing market share abroad. Hope this is useful!

This worksheet is best used on the computers as an internet research task. Students have to use the internet to research the top exports of all the EU countries. I used this for my GCSE business class, I used 1 lesson to research 10 chosen countries. For A-level you can add an extra cell asking why do you think this is their top export (specialisation, skills or factors of prodcution etc) Hope this helps and please leave a positive review!

Extended Ps Worksheet and hints to go with I used this after letting them know about the extended Ps.

resources I used, feel free to adapt!

just decision trees. does get a bit confusing at one point but you can take that out if you wish

ppt guide intriducing the topic, has some activites built within. also a simple match up exercise for the students to complete, finished off with a video.