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High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
Ideally printed on A3, students write about each part of the computer shown in the boxes and label the parts they can see.
Space for teacher feedback and a gap task/extension/homework task to find one more part of the computer and define/label it.
I've used this with year 7, but equally would suit up to GCSE and as low as year 5/6. Enjoy!
Exactly what the title says!
A blank, 6 period day, timetable template. Useful to give to students to copy up their weekly timetable or for teachers to display on the wall to show primary classes which lessons are scheduled for when.
Uploaded as a Word document so it can be coloured/typed on to suit. There's a five period day uploaded separately if that helps!
Enjoy!
This activity gets students to complete a profit and loss account for the fictional, Barmy Burgers. Students must use all the data on the handout to complete the various activities.
This is part of a differentiated task - there are three handouts which you might give to all students to complete in succession, or group students based on ability.
If basing on ability, this is not the most challenging of the activities.
An A4 sheet that asks learners to calculate fixed, variable and total costs from a given scenario.
Comes as a printable PDF, a fillable PDF that can be hosted online and with an answer sheet too.
**Perfectly suited to topic 5.3 of the GCSE OCR Business Studies course.
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Enjoy.
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FULLY RESOURCED set of lessons and ASSESSMENT. See the topic list below.
This resource includes:
33 slide PowerPoint (this is also REALLY useful if given to students for revision, deleting instruction slides)
9 page work booklet for students to complete with lots of activities
Quiz on Von Neumann Architecture
Answers to the quiz
Test on system architecture (40 marks) to assess progress in this unit
Test mark scheme
A 16 page revision booklet for students (this is the adapted lesson PowerPoint without instructions etc.)
These resources have been mapped against GCSE OCR Computer Science (J276), Computer Systems Unit (J276/01) 1.1 System Architecture, though are useful for anyone teaching the following topics in Computer Science (any spec!):
Hardware and Software
Input and Output devices
Internal components of a PC
The CPU
Parts of the CPU / registers
Von Neumann Architecture
Factors impacting on processor speed
Cores
This resource REALLY cuts down on your marking workload and acts as an effective starter to a lesson once a piece of work/section of work has been marked/reviewed.
Follow this process…
Print this resource on A4 paper (or A3 if you’re going to write a lot).
‘Tick and Flick’ mark each piece of work/book for a whole class or particular group of students.
As you’re going through, note your comments on the sheet within one of the sections below.
Praise (What Went Well)
Misconceptions/Common Errors
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Even Better If
Presentation
DIRT Activity/Activities
Once complete, photocopy a sheet for all students to glue into their books or attach to their work.
In the following lesson, students should action the DIRT activity. You should also display this sheet (if scanned in) as a discussion point/starter.
Your marking has been reduced… very effectively too!
TIPS:
Students LOVE to be named on this sheet, as everyone in the class gets a copy! Name particular students within the relevant sections of the marking tool sheet.
Don’t use this for EVERY piece of marking you do! This is designed to reduce the marking you do, not obliterate it! Choose when this tool will work well for you and your class.
Print a bank of these off so they’re easily at hand.
Teacher slides and student booklet getting learners to develop a new ice cream product for ‘Jen and Berry’s’!
Covers:
Market research
Primary & secondary research
Creating a questionnaire
Carrying out an interview
Carrying out a focus group
Target market
Customer profiling
Design ideas
Feedback (self and peer)
Final design choices
Pricing strategies
Calculating revenue and profit/loss
Slides are editable if required. Booklet is 12 pages and contains an easy space for final marking on the front cover (very short too!!).
All you need to do is print the booklet, break the slides down into lessons/chunks, decide which parts are your starters etc. and go for it!
Best printed on A3, “Business in Context” gives learners an opportunity to read about about discuss a real business scenario. This resource is ideal traning for section B questions of the OCR GCSE Business Studies exam and content relates solely to the Business 1 specification but would suit any GCSE/A Level Business course really.
This resource introduces entrepreneur Kimberlee Perry who founded fitness company “Bounce”. The scenario in the centre is factual.
Six questions around the outside discuss:
Qualities of an entrepreneur
Stakeholders
Business growth
Recruitment
Motivation
This resource in detail:
Format: PDF
Editing: Not editable (no need)
Content: 1 x PDF handout (best printed on A3 paper)
Fully resourced guide to guide students through the creation of their own board game and the coding of a Micro:bit device to determine how many moves players should take around the board.
Fully differentiated - pick and choose what you use. Includes solution for lower abilities to still access the lesson and additional challenges to stretch the top end.
Board game template included - this would be a very creative, fun and engaging project to complete with students over numerous lessons.
Students I've done this with have even created game play cards and programmed their Micro:bit's to decide when players should take a card. They've coloured their board in fully and make a real professional job of the activity.
Enjoy! There are plenty of other Micro:bit activities listed in my free and premium resources lists.
If you liked the first Plenary Wheel, things just got even better!! Version 2 is here, all new, USE ALONGSIDE VERSION ONE, NOT INSTEAD OF!! All your plenaries will be planned for months to come, if not longer!! See a video preview below BEFORE choosing to buy this TOP quality resource.
Interactive, fun and engaging. A perfect end to the lesson!
The plenary wheel is a PowerPoint file with a rotating wheel. Ask one of your students to shout STOP to select how the lesson ends. NO PLANNING involved. Just open the file and let your students decide.
This wheel is the sequel to my original plenary wheel - it contains 8 NEW PLENARY activities that focus on the question “What have I learnt today”. It’s not a rebrand - so if you want both look for my bundle and then you’ll have SIXTEEN plenary activities - that’s your academic year sorted!
The plenaries are:
60 seconds - tell a partner what you’ve learnt in a minute - timers includes.
Picture review - draw how you feel/what you’ve learnt - template/handout included (print a bank of these ready!).
Emoji review - select an emoji to summarise your learning today - template included if required (black and white or colour).
Text message - write a reply to the text on the slide.
4-3-1, my take on the 5-5-1 review - write four sentences then whittle it down to just 1 word to summarise today’s lesson. Handout included, again print a stack ready!
Red, Amber, Green - three sentence review of your learning today.
Tell me three - answer the three summary questions about today’s learning.
Status update - write a social media status to summarise your learning today.
Macros must be enabled for the wheel to function, though the plenary activities can still be viewed without the wheel spinning (less exciting!).
Enjoy!
Everything you need to teach Sole traders and teach it well - perfect for an observation.
Differentiated learning outcomes included on the presentation. The presentation would also be useful printed as some stage for revision for your learners.
The two activities include sorting advantages and disadvantages of sole trader ownership and an extended writing question. The lesson includes marking sheets that have space to match the work completed in this lesson to success criteria and space to give WWW and EBi (gap task).
This really is value for money. To get even more value, use the plenary from the last slide in some of your other lessons - it's not lesson specific and is quite a nice end to any lesson.
Enjoy!
Three resources for a reduced price.
Will take AT LEAST 4 lessons to complete, if not longer.
All differentiated.
All fully resourced.
All can be taught in a classroom OR computer suite (computer tasks have been adapted for those in a classroom).
Discounted bundle. Over 20% saving.
Computer Science/Computing/PSHE
This 9-page booklet is mapped against OCR GCSE Business Studies J204. This resource includes a printable PDF version AND a PowerPoint version that learners can complete and submit online, via Google Classroom etc.
Answers included in separate PDF document!
Activities on:
Entrepreneurs
Business Plans
Sole traders / Partnerships
Limited Companies
Business Ownership (liability)
Aims and Objectives
Stakeholders
Business Growth
GREAT FOR HOMEWORK! If you set one page each week, that’s more than enough for a half term. The pages also act as a good discussion point for a starter in the following lesson too (win, win!).
To REDUCE MARKING - there’s the smallest space for teachers to put 4 ticks to assess each homework. Low stakes, low work-load marking.
This lesson introduces students to the different connections available for digital devices (wired and wireless connections). Students should mind map their own ideas first, before answers are revealed (click on the slide to reveal answers!).
Students must then research OR use the support sheet to group advantages and disadvantages of each connection type.
On the back page of the booklet is a review of the lesson where students must decide on the BEST method of connection; there are more answers, but the IDEAL answer is shown on the PowerPoint itself and students should be told this!
Enjoy!
Suitable for any Business Specification where students need to know what Fixed and Variable Costs are. Also discussed (and has an activity) for working out total costs and profit etc.
DO NOT BUY if you already have my TASK 5 for Cambridge Nationals.
This resource includes ALL theory notes, loads of activities.
All top quality.
Enjoy.
This 6-page booklet is mapped against OCR GCSE Business Studies J204. This resource includes a printable PDF version AND a PowerPoint version that learners can complete and submit online, via Google Classroom etc.
Answers included in separate PDF document!
Homework sheets on:
Ethical considerations (x2)
Economic climate
Globalisation
To REDUCE MARKING - there’s the smallest space for teachers to put 4 ticks to assess each homework. Low stakes, low impact on work-load marking.
A good little starter to settle an ICT class quickly and to reinforce key terms relating to spreadsheets. Aids the spelling of key terms which is often over-looked in ICT (how many times do your pupils misspell columN?!).
Two PowerPoints (one for 1.1 and one for 1.2 & 1.3 combined) to fully deliver R067 Topic Area 1 for the updated Cambridge National in Enterprise and Marketing course.
All PowerPoints are editable, as are the handouts (also saved as PDF for easier printing).
This resource in detail:
Format: PPTX, DOCX and PDF
Editing: Text is fully editable, uses Calibri font
Content: 2 x Teacher PowerPoints (25 slides in total) 4 x learner handouts (4 pages in total)