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Former teacher of Economics, Politics & Business Studies in Madrid, Spain (journalist at The Times, Sunday Times & MoneySavingExpert.com in a previous life)

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Former teacher of Economics, Politics & Business Studies in Madrid, Spain (journalist at The Times, Sunday Times & MoneySavingExpert.com in a previous life)
PED: Price elasticity of demand (AS-level Economics)
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PED: Price elasticity of demand (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering price elasticity of demand (PED). Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Previous exam practice questions Worksheet Homework 7-lesson bundle covering all chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155 8-lesson bundle for previous chapters (the economic problem; factors of production; functions of money; specialisation/division of labour; production possibility frontiers etc) is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Demand & the demand curve (AS-level Economics)
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Demand & the demand curve (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering demand & the demand curve. Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet 7-lesson bundle covering all chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155 8-lesson bundle for previous chapters (the economic problem; factors of production; functions of money; specialisation/division of labour; production possibility frontiers etc) is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Rational decision making (AS-level Economics)
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Rational decision making (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering rational decision making (inertia; habitual behaviour; consumer computation etc.) Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet Homework 7-lesson bundle covering all chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155 8-lesson bundle for previous chapters (the economic problem; factors of production; functions of money; specialisation/division of labour; production possibility frontiers etc) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
AS-level Microeconomics bundle: Introductory concepts (8 lessons + worksheets)
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AS-level Microeconomics bundle: Introductory concepts (8 lessons + worksheets)

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Bundle of 8 lessons covering the first 5 chapters (Introductory Concepts) of Edexcel AS-level Economics (Student Book 1). Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities): Lesson 1: Introduction to Microeconomics Lesson 2: Scarcity Lesson 3: Opportunity cost Lesson 4: Factors of production Lesson 5: Production possibility frontiers Lesson 6: Specialisation & Division of labour Lesson 7: Functions of money Lesson 8: Types of economy Also includes Economics reading diary (discussed in lesson 1) Further 7-lesson bundle covering following chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155
Types of economy (AS-level Economics)
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Types of economy (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering types of economy (command, free market, mixed) Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Worksheet (challenging students to write a letter to the North Korean leader explaining why he should move away from a command economy) Homework Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528586 Lesson 4 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528605 Lesson 5 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528624 Lesson 6 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528791 Lesson 7 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528794 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Functions of money (AS-level Economics)
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Functions of money (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering the functions of money and role of financial markets. Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Quick quiz on key concepts so far Worksheet (challenging students to research whether Bitcoin satisifies the functions of money) Role of financial markets (video and mind map) Practice 4-mark question (with mark scheme) Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528586 Lesson 4 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528605 Lesson 5 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528624 Lesson 6 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528791 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890 P.S. I adapted the worksheet from a site called econedlink. The original can be found here: https://econedlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Money-Checklist.pdf
Specialisation & Division of labour (AS-level Economics)
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Specialisation & Division of labour (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering specialisation & division of labour Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet / group activity Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528586 Lesson 4 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528605 Lesson 5 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528624 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890 P.S. I used dcp20’s excellent Economic Indicators Top Trumps as a template for the specialisation sheet. It can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/economic-indicators-top-trumps-6146807
Production possibility frontiers (AS-level Economics)
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Production possibility frontiers (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering: Production possibility frontiers showing: Choice Efficiency Opportunity cost Economic growth/contraction Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet (graph practice & questions) Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528586 Lesson 4 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528605 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Factors of production (AS-level Economics)
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Factors of production (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering: Factors of production (land, labour, capital, enterprise) Renewable & non-renewable resources Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Worksheet Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528586 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Opportunity cost (AS-level Economics)
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Opportunity cost (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering: Choice Opportunity cost Economic & free goods Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet Homework task Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528577 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Scarcity (AS-level Economics)
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Scarcity (AS-level Economics)

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AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering concepts of: Ceteris paribus Scarcity The economic problem Positive & normative statements Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Worksheet Part of a series of lessons. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528554 Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Introduction to Microeconomics (AS-level)
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Introduction to Microeconomics (AS-level)

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Introduction to AS Microeconomics (Edexcel) Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Critical thinking questions / worksheet Reading diary Homework task Chapter bundle (8 lessons and worksheets) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies (Section 6): External influences on business activity (8 complete lessons)
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Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies (Section 6): External influences on business activity (8 complete lessons)

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Eight lessons covering Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies, Section 6 Each lesson is comfortably 1-hour long (what they don’t finish I set for homework) and includes a PowerPoint plus various activities and/or worksheets. Lesson 1 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12494613 Lesson 2 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12494998 Lesson 3 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12495450 Lesson 4 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12499066 Lesson 5 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12505357 Lesson 6 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12507546 Lesson 7 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12509139 Lesson 8 can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516750
Exchange rates: IGCSE Business
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Exchange rates: IGCSE Business

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Lesson 8 covering Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies (Section 6): External influences on business activity - Exchange rates. PowerPoint introduces exchange rates and explains how changing money from one currency to another works (using holidays abroad as an example). Students are then shown how appreciating or depreciating exchange rates affect the cost of raw materials for businesses. Also attached is a worksheet - in which students must fill in the key terms, research exchange rates (explaining why they are important for a business), and then say why other factors (other than exchange rates) might be more important for business success. 8-lesson bundle (£4) here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Sustainable development (externalities): IGCSE Business
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Sustainable development (externalities): IGCSE Business

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Lesson 4 covering Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies (Section 6): External influences on business activity - environmental and ethical issues. PowerPoint recaps government monetary policy and then discusses externalities caused by people and businesses. Also attached is a worksheet with key terms table to fill in and questions to answer. Easily filled a 1-hour class. 8-lesson bundle (£4) here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Diagrams in AS Microeconomics: A-level Economics
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Diagrams in AS Microeconomics: A-level Economics

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Simply sheet for students to practice and explain the diagrams that they need to know in Microeconomics: PPFs; producer and consumer surplus; price ceilings/floors; negative externalities; indirect tax; subsidies & more. Used with my Year 12s for revision when near end of Unit 1: Markets in action. Easily filled an hour (with some left over for homework)
Measures to promote growth & development: A-level Economics worksheet
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Measures to promote growth & development: A-level Economics worksheet

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Measures to promote growth and development project / worksheet for A-level Economics. Students are required to analyse methods that could help a country of their imagination grow/develop economically. Covers topics including: *types of foreign aid (tied, bilateral, multilateral); debt relief; role of the IMF; market-orientated strategies; interventionist strategies; the role of the World Bank; FDI etc. * There is also a 20-mark practice question at the end for good measure. Used as revision after covering the final chapter of Unit 4 (Edexcel Student Book 2).
Economics reading list
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Economics reading list

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Reading diary (with links to recommended books, websites, blogs, podcasts and interviews) for A-level Economics students. I update the Google doc each week with new material (so please comment with any recommendations that you have and I will add them in). I ask my students to read/listen to at least three pieces a week.
Direct & Indirect tax: A-level Economics worksheet
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Direct & Indirect tax: A-level Economics worksheet

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Direct and indirect tax worksheet for Y13 Macroeconomics - used to see how well students had understood the topics of tax and public spending (Chapters 34 & 35 in Edexcel Economics Student Book 2). Students are required to: Define direct & indirect taxes Graphically illustrate the effect of progressive & regressive taxes Discuss implications of cutting public spending during challenging economic times Select - and justify - a set of tax rises that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak could make to pay for the COVID-19 pandemic