whole lesson on Critical Path Analysis with links to Lean Production - works well year after year… fully editable Starter before explaining how to build a network diagram Then business decision making scenario with data notes on use of Network Diagrams and CPA and depends on extension Plenary with data

Greiner's Growth Model into an active lesson: There is a structured role-play activity They can do this in groups and discuss their similarities in answers and differences this then links to some real-life airline problems where they can discuss where they fit on the model (if they do or not) There is a video link explaining the theory and then you can get them to discuss the implications. Before an evaluation question to help them critique the model

whole lesson looking at Carillion and why it failed... brief intro to get students understanding the business before an activity where students can analyse data to create an picture of the factors behind the failure of the business. Data includes financial accounts, share prices, missed objectives, bonus culture etc etc.. they can create the picture on flip chart paper. evaluation - was it bound to fail - students invites to present ideas on how they would have run it better..

EDUQAS Business AS PAPER 2 Style paper; mark scheme Original paper created - majority of mark scheme also included on file

Designed for AQA A level business students for revision 10 different essay titles covering the 2 years of course. Then cut out cards with all the major theories from the 2 years so they can sort and choose the best theory for their arguments - then explain why editable resource

Great activity for students to derive Maslow's hierarchy of needs - put them on the Island and see what happens!

Powerpoint game with MCQ for A level Business AQA Structured so that students cannot leave the game until Q8 Based on the popular TV show million pound drop - Makes MCq and revision fun! EASILY adapted for ANY subject and exam board - just copy and paste in your questions

Management Style: Tannenbaum and Schmidt lesson: planned for Year 1 AQA business spec Scenario opener - asking students to come up with how they would make decisions in 6 x scenarios then link to Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory. Then another scenario to build analysis and eval skills & eval depends on arguments. finally a mix and match activity to develop judgement skills. notes on depends on factors Visual Plenary.

Revision Test with 10 q's on the AQA Alevel Specification Useful for consolidation / recap

Quick revision calcs for AQA business specification - simple and quick revision

Designed for Paper 1 short answer sections to help my students revise key theories but in context to help answer the question Theories drawn from the whole 2 years...

A powerpoint full of roles and questions...fully editable to add you own visuals Scenarios for decisions as different kind of managers why is a leader different Mintzberg videos on management

Use this for the 1st lesson either for lower 6 (AS) or Upper 6 (A2) to highlight how appropriate business decisions depend on the context/situation. How in some situations one decision is appropriate but in another less so. Use as an Ice-breaker but also set the scene that context/application matter, Can also be used to highlight objectives, strategy, tactics. Can be used to highlight important skills to do well in business... application, analysis and judgment. 2 x survival situations, grids, instructions, ideas for feedback

works really well.. Starter on what is quality before drawing activity which allows the QC vs QA debate outcomes and notes on theory. plenary often used as lesson before the one on QA systems..

Full lesson based around a experiment for Quality Assurance making Tea. Works really well once mastered. bellwork about what is quality and how measured for firms before Tea in a cafe and an kineasthetic experiment before breaking it down with the pro's and evals of quality assurance processes then pros of quality before a debate if time and videos if time plenary .

second lesson which moves on from Network diagrams to CPA and Float Analysis. plenty of different data’s and situations to use as activities. couple of exam style questions to get them thinking extension question End assessment exam question from old spec.

Activity / lesson for revision..

Old Buss3 paper.. used to get student doing a SWOT analysis on it.. Then some of the old questions used but also 3 new questions - including open q like the new Paper 3 on AQA for the new spec...

Developed this Kineasthetic starter for Yr 10 Applied GCSE Business Studies as an introduction to functional areas and organisational structure. There is also an element of problem solving as pupils must work out which area applies to them before starting the kineasthetic part. Activity 1 has functional areas & functional area descriptions. Activity 2 can be used for the 2nd half of the class with functional areas é job descriptions. Activity 3 has all the class problem solving before moving around.