Former teacher of Economics, Politics & Business Studies in Madrid, Spain (journalist at The Times, Sunday Times & MoneySavingExpert.com in a previous life)
Former teacher of Economics, Politics & Business Studies in Madrid, Spain (journalist at The Times, Sunday Times & MoneySavingExpert.com in a previous life)
A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on determination of wage rates used with my Y13 students. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Starter (quick refresh on some previous Y13 content)
Explanations of perfectly competitive labour markets and non-competitive labour markets
Practice questions
Diagram explanations & practice
Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
AS-level Politics lesson (Edexcel) on minor UK political parties (SNP, Greens, Plaid & UKIP) as part of the module on Political Parties, used with my Year 12s. Includes:
Starter on political party funding
Major successes of the minor parties (e.g. Brexit for UKIP)
Policies of the minor parties
Two-party system discussion
5-part homework documentary on New Labour (see previous lessons)
Other selected previous lessons:
Voter behaviour and the media (12-lesson bundle): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/voter-behaviour-and-the-media-12-lessons-worksheets-and-more-12633978
Historical development of the UK’s main political parties: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12729930
UK political party funding: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12729938
Bundle of 4 A-level Business Studies lessons covering Further Human Resource Management (Cambridge, Unit 2, Chapter 13) used with my Year 13 students
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities)
Lesson 1: Hard & soft HRM (2 hours)
Lesson 2: Labour productivity, absenteeism (1 hour)
Lesson 3: Labour laws & workforce planning (1 hour)
Lesson 4: Trade unions (2 hours)
Buying the bundle saves 50% on buying individually
Full shop for more Business, Economics and Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
75-slide Marketing (Cambridge; Unit 3) mega PowerPoint used with my Year 11 IGCSE Business Studies students.
Topics covered in the PowerPoint include:
Product life cycle
R&D
Pricing strategies (cost-plus; penetration; price skimming, promotional)
Price elasticity of demand
Promotion methods
Distribution methods (direct distribution; retail distribution; wholesale distribution etc)
E-commerce (B2B; B2C; C2C)
Entering foreign markets
The PPT has learner activities and practice questions throughout and there are also 5 worksheets to complete (plus a short assessment I made using marketing questions from past papers).
More Economics, Politics and Business Studies material uploaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Four lessons for teaching Electoral systems topic (component 1; AS Politics; Edexcel).
Lesson 1: First-past-the-post
Lesson 2: Additional member system
Lesson 3: Single transferable vote & supplementary vote
Lesson 4: Referendums
All PowerPoints contain data, videos, student tasks etc.
See also:
Voter behaviour & the media bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12633978
Bundle of 12 AS Politics lessons covering voter behaviour and the media module.
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities):
Lesson 1: Introduction to voter behaviour
Lesson 2: ‘Typical’ party voters
Lesson 3: Political data
Lesson 4: Gender, ethnicity & education
Lesson 5: Governing competence
Lesson 6: Party manifestos
Lesson 7: 1979 general election
Lesson 8: Political advertising
Lesson 9: British politics in the 1980s & 1990s
Lesson 10: Tory sleaze
Lesson 11: Influence of the media
Lesson 12: Disillusion & apathy
Also includes a list of recommended UK politics documentaries; and a set of 35 politics revision tips.
Individual lessons (plus more Economics, Politics and Business Studies material) can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
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
Bundle of 7 lessons covering chapters 6-10 (Consumer Behaviour, Demand and Supply) of Edexcel AS-level Economics (Markets in Action).
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities) and are comfortably 1-hour long:
Lesson 1: Rational decision making
Lesson 2: Demand
Lesson 3: Price elasticity of demand (PED)
Lesson 4: Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Lesson 5: Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
Lesson 6: Supply & the supply curve
Lesson 7: Price elasticity of supply (PES)
Also includes:
1-hour assessment on all material taught so far
Reading diary
Selection of multiple choice questions from recent past papers (with answers)
Graph practice worksheet
Essay planner template
Introductory concepts bundle here (chapters 1-5) is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890
A-level Business strategic analysis & strategic choice bundle (Unit 6, Cambridge).
L1: Introduction to strategic management
L2: SWOT & PEST
L3: Boston Matrix
L4: Porter’s Five Forces
L5: Ansoff Matrix
L6: Force-field analysis
L7: Decision trees
Worksheets and activities included with each lesson.
Bundle of eight lessons covering chapters 11-20 of Edexcel AS-level Economics (Student book 1).
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities).
Lesson 1: Market equilibrium
Lesson 2: Functions of the price mechanism
Lesson 3: Law of diminishing marginal utility
Lesson 4: Indirect taxes and subsidies
Lesson 5: Market failure (moral hazard; information gaps; under-provision of public goods etc.)
Lesson 6: Externalities
Lesson 7: Government intervention
Lesson 8: Government failure
Also includes:
Diagram practice (max & min prices and more)
Links to whole class quizzes
Selection of multiple choice questions from recent past papers
Mind maps for planning 20-mark essay questions
Essay planning template
Economics reading diary
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
Bundle of 11 microeconomics lessons covering chapters 1-7 (Types & Sizes of Business; Revenue, Costs & Profit) of Edexcel A-level Economics: student book 2 (Unit 3: Business Behaviour).
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities):
Lesson 1: Types of Business
Lesson 2: Size of Business
Lesson 3: Business objectives
Lesson 4: Revenue
Lesson 5: Costs
Lesson 6: Costs (part 2)
Lesson 7: Short-run cost curves
Lesson 8: Internal economies & diseconomies of scale
Lesson 9: External economies & diseconomies of scale
Lesson 10: Normal & supernormal profit
Lesson 11: Costs & revenue curves
Individual lessons (plus more Economics, Politics and Business Studies material) can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
68-slide PowerPoint + worksheets and activities for teaching Business Strategy (Cambridge A-level Business). Covers all of the following from the syllabus:
– Blue ocean strategy
– Scenario planning
– SWOT analysis
– PEST analysis
– Porter’s five forces
– Core competence framework
– Ansoff matrix
– Force field analysis
– Decision trees
Everything that you need to teach Unit 1: Introduction to Economics of IB DP Economics (first assessment 2022).
For Unit 2: Real World Issue 1 (Microeconomics) see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12793808
The recommended teaching time for this unit is 10 hours (for both standard level & higher level) and these materials more than cover it:
86 slide PowerPoint (broken down into individual lessons covering everything in syllabus)
Student activities and challenges throughout the presentations
Worksheets for every lesson
Practice questions
Links to relevant videos and other external resources
Reading diary (with recommended reading list)
Topics covered include:
Economics as a social science
Factors of production
Scarcity
Opportunity cost
Production possibilities curve model (PPC/PPF)
Circular flow of income
Positive & normative statements
Marx, Smith, Keynes
For Unit 1: Introduction to Economics see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12681403
For Unit 2 (Real-world issue 1): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12684013
Everything that you need to teach Real-world issue 2 of Unit 2: Microeconomics of IB DP Economics (Standard Level).
Includes:
86 slide PowerPoint (broken down into individual lessons covering everything in the syllabus)
Student activities and challenges throughout the presentations
Worksheets
Practice questions
Graph practice
Links to relevant videos and articles
Links to online quizzes
Topics covered include:
Government intervention
Max and min prices
Taxes and subsidies
Externalities
Public goods
Also includes:
Economics reading diary (and recommended reading list)
Graph practice (for units 1 and 2)
Bundle of 15 lessons covering the first 10 chapters 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
Lesson 9: Rational decision making
Lesson 10: Demand
Lesson 11: Price elasticity of demand (PED)
Lesson 12: Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Lesson 13: Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
Lesson 14: Supply & the supply curve
Lesson 15: Price elasticity of supply (PES)
Also includes:
1-hour assessment (with mark scheme)
Student reading diary
Graph practice worksheet
Essay planner template
Selection of multiple choice questions from recent past papers
For Unit 1: Introduction to Economics see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12681403
For Unit 2 (Real-World issue 2) see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12826944
Everything that you need to teach Real-world issue 1 of Unit 2: Microeconomics of IB DP Economics (Standard Level).
Includes:
97 slide PowerPoint (broken down into individual lessons covering everything in the syllabus for teaching Real-world issue 1 - Standard Level)
Student activities and challenges throughout the presentations
Worksheets for every lesson
Practice questions
Graph practice
Links to relevant videos and other external resources
Links to online quizzes
Topics covered include:
Demand
The demand curve (movements & shifts)
Supply
The supply curve (movements & shifts)
Market equilibrium
Functions of the price mechanism
Consumers, producer & community surplus
Allocative efficiency
Price elasticity of demand
Income elasticity of demand
Price elasticity of supply
For Unit 1: Introduction to Economics see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12681403
For Unit 2 (Real-world issue 1): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12793808
Everything that you need to teach Real-world issue 2 of Unit 2: Microeconomics of IB DP Economics (Higher Level).
Includes:
240 slide PowerPoint (broken down into individual lessons covering everything in the syllabus)
Student activities and challenges throughout the presentations
Worksheets
Practice questions
Graph practice
Links to relevant videos and articles
Links to online quizzes
Topics covered include:
Perfect competition
Oligopoly & monopoly
Government intervention
Max and min prices
Taxes and subsidies
Externalities
Public goods
Also includes:
Economics reading diary (and recommended reading list)
Graph practice (for units 1 and 2)
For Unit 1: Introduction to Economics see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12681403
For standard level resource see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12684013
Everything that you need to teach Real-world issue 1 of Unit 2: Microeconomics of IB DP Economics (Higher Level).
Includes:
130 slide PowerPoint (broken down into individual lessons covering everything in the syllabus for teaching Real-world issue 1 - Higher Level)
Student activities and challenges throughout the presentations
Worksheets
Practice questions
Graph practice
Links to relevant videos and other external resources
Links to bespoke quizzes
Topics covered include:
Demand
The demand curve (movements & shifts)
Supply
The supply curve (movements & shifts)
Market equilibrium
Functions of the price mechanism
Consumers, producer & community surplus
Allocative efficiency
Price elasticity of demand
Behavioural economics
Business objectives