Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
This is an essay planning sheet for Edexcel A level business but it’s in Word so it could be adapted to any board.
I use these at revision time with U6 students together with past papers and the model marked answers. They use these to plan answers to the longer questions and it helps to cement the techniques for exams of using the case study as evidence to support their points.
This complete lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint which is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation. This lesson includes the following topics:
a) Product and market orientation
b) Primary and secondary market research data
(quantitative and qualitative) used to:
identify and anticipate customer needs and wants
quantify likely demand
gain insight into consumer behaviour
c) Limitations of market research, sample size and bias
d) Use of ICT to support market research:
websites
social networking
databases
e) Market segmentation
This complete lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint and is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and includes the following topics:
a) Mass markets and niche markets:
characteristics
market size and market share
brands
b) Dynamic markets:
online retailing
how markets change
innovation and market growth
adapting to change
c) How competition affects the market
d) The difference between risk and uncertainty
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business YBS11 (433) 3 / 4333 cultural social
Complete lesson including a student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
a) Considerations for businesses:
• cultural differences
• different tastes and preferences
• language and unintended meanings
• inappropriate branding and promotion.
This is a complete lesson to introduce unit 4 of the International Business syllabus. Includes lots of interactive activities and questions for the students to answer.
Includes a teacher PPT and a student worksheet
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Covers these topics:
a) Characteristics of developed, developing and emerging economies
b) Growing economic power of countries within Asia, Africa and other
parts of the world
c) Implications of economic growth for individuals and businesses:
• trade opportunities for businesses
• employment patterns.
d) Indicators of growth:
• gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP per capita
• human development index (HDI).
Edexcel GCSE Business 2.1.1. Business Growth
Complete lesson with PowerPoint and student worksheet
Covers these topics:
Methods of business growth and their impact:
Internal (organic) growth: new products (innovation, research and development), new markets (through changing the marketing mix or taking advantage of technology and/or expanding overseas)
External (inorganic) growth: merger, takeover
The types of business ownership for growing businesses:
Public limited company (plc)
Sources of finance for growing and established businesses:
Internal sources: retained profit, selling assets
External sources: loan capital, share capital including stock market flotation (public limited companies)
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
The purpose of business
Reasons for starting a business
Basic functions and types of business
Goods and services
Needs and wants
Factors of production
Opportunity cost
Three main business sectors
Business enterprise and entrepreneurship
Characteristics of am entrepreneur
Objectives of an entrepreneur
Dynamic nature of business
2.3.1 Planning a business and raising finance
2 INTERNAL FINANCE
This complete lesson will include:
a) Owner’s capital: personal savings
b) Retained profit
c) Sale of assets
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This is a logo quiz that will work on a whiteboard or handed out as sheets. Individual or team quiz.
Student friendly
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This worksheet is to help students when they are trying to put together a MOPS section on a 20 mark question. The prompts help them to look at the case study and organise their thoughts for the conclusion.
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This is a simple revision supply and demand worksheet in PDF to use with students so they have two handy sheets to revise from.
Students fill in the sheets with all the supply and demand diagrams
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Three PDF worksheets with ideas for revision methods for students taking any kind of exam or test.
These can be loaded onto a shared drive so that students can look at the ideas and try them out for themselves
They can be used in lessons, given to groups and they try out all the ideas and vote on the best one
They can be given as homework with students asked to rate the methods out of 5 in terms of their usefulness.
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2.3.1 Planning a business and raising finance 1 PLANNING
This complete lesson includes:
a) Content of a business plan
b) Relevance and uses of a business plan
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OCR GCSE Business 1.1. The role of business enterprise complete lesson
Includes a PowerPoint and a Worksheet on:
The purpose of business activity and enterprise
Spotting an opportunity, developing an idea for a business, satisfying the needs of customers
Characteristics of an entrepreneur
Creativity, risk taking, determination and confidence
The concept of risk and reward
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AQA A LEVEL BUSINESS 312 UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT BUSINESS FORMS
Reasons for choosing different forms of business and for changing business form
Different forms of business:
Sole traders
Private limited companies
Public limited companies
Private sector organisations
Public sector organisations
Non-profit organisations
Social Enterprises
Issues with different forms of business include:
Unlimited and limited liability
Ordinary share capital
Market capitalisation
Dividends
The role of shareholders and why they invest
Influences on share price and the significance of share price changes
The effects of ownership on mission and objectives
This is a complete lesson including a PPT and worksheet
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AQA A LEVEL BUSINESS 313 UNDERSTANDING THAT BUSINESSES OPERATE WITHIN AN EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
How the external environment can affect costs
and demand
Factors influencing costs and demand to include
the effect of:
• competition
• market conditions
• incomes
• interest rates
• demographic factors
• environmental issues and fair trade
This is a complete lesson including a PPT and worksheet
This is lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
AQA A LEVEL BUSINESS NEW SPEC 311 understanding the nature and purpose of business
Why businesses exist
Business objectives such as:
Profit
Growth
Survival
Cash Flow
Social
Ethical
The relationship between mission and objectives
Why businesses set objectives
The measurement and importance of profit:
Revenue (also known as turnover or sales)
Fixed Costs
Variable Costs
Total Costs
This is a complete lesson including a PPT and worksheet
This is lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
New groups or new to a group? These ice breaker quizzes can be downloaded and you can have ready just in case all the whiteboards or technology lets you down.
Ideal for GCSE Business and A level Business and BTEC Business (all levels)
I always link it that if they can talk about one brand they can talk about alternatives / substitutes / competitors etc.
Hope these help
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Edexcel GCSE Business
1.1.1 The Dynamic nature of business complete lesson
This lesson includes:
Why new business ideas come about:
Changes in technology
Changes in what consumers want
Products and services becoming obsolete
How new business ideas come about:
Original ideas
Adapting existing products/services/ideas
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This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of break-even
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
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