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.
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 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
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
BTEC National Level 3 Business Unit 20
2016 (current) specification
Investigating Corporate Social
Responsibility
This bundle covers:
A Examine the CSR issues facing large private sector businesses
B Investigate the benefits and drawbacks for businesses of adopting a CSR policy
C Review the CSR record of a private sector business.
There is a PowerPoint for every single learning aim and a worksheet to match it.
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
Written by Sarah Hilton at 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
A Series of blank forms that I made, useful for all boards and GCSE business and A level Business and BTEC Business.
Ideal for scaffolding, uploading to Teams, showing what a good one looks like or just speeding things up not waiting for students to spend an hour drawing all the lines. We are not technical drawing, we are business.
Hope these help.
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.