High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
High quality and engaging educational resources predominantly for teachers of Business and Computing subjects. There's more on the website... www.meanbusiness.co.uk
Eight product posters that have now adopted brand names as their generally accepted nouns. Includes an introduction poster and conclusion. Whoever views this display needs to select a name they’d call each product… they add up a score and then the higher the score the more influenced someone has been by brand names.
Great for Open Evening, particularly if two learners could lead it to discuss results to prospective parents.
This 8-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:
The Finance Department/Function
Sources of Finance
Revenue and Costs
Fixed and Variable Costs
Break-even Point
Break-even Chart
Cash Flow Forecasts
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!
FULL lesson that introduces Phishing.
Includes starter, 2 main activities, lots of discussion, no computers required, 2 worksheets/handouts, full lesson PowerPoint with all answers included and a lesson review.
1. What is Phishing - discuss and write initial ideas (to show progress on the progress path sheet)
2. Identify pointers of a dodgy email (handout included with extension task)
3. Discussion and answers revealed (including possible answers to the extension task)
4. Poster raising awareness task - includes differentiated success criteria that matches the objectives.
5. Plenary review (on handout) that proves progress.
No additional planning or adaptation required (bonus!).
Enjoy.
A full bundle of resources from our popular range, covering all the taught aspects of R068 of the updated Cambridge National in Enterprise and Marketing course.
All TAs included.
Visit our website for more useful R068 resources too (loads free!) (Google Mean Business).
Save over 25% on the three MASSIVE lessons on Business Ownership for GCSE Business Studies.
Lesson 1 - Sole traders
Lesson 2 - Partnerships
Lesson 3 - Companies (Private and Public)
ALL fully resourced
ALL include a lesson plan
ALL include student handouts
ALL double up for revision handouts! Bargain!
ALL differentiated by outcome
ALL include parts to stretch high abilities
If you want to see quality BEFORE you buy, look for the ownership lesson plan within my free resources.
I've also added a learning puzzle (this is literally a full lesson to complete!), homework sheet and a match up task. These additional tasks are for when sole traders, partnerships and companies have been taught to really ensure students have learnt the topic or could be used to recap in a few months after teaching.
Enjoy!
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:
What is Marketing / the 4 P’s
Market Research (Primary/Secondary)
Market Research (Create a Questionnaire)
Market Segments / Target Markets
Price & Pricing Strategies
Product Life Cycle
Methods of Promotion / Changes in modern promotion methods (social media etc.)
Market Data
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.
Everything is included! There’s a PowerPoint which guides teachers through the lesson, including speaker notes with additional commentary.
Activities:
Discuss differentiated outcomes / objectives
Mind map ways a business can be ethical
Discussion on ways a business can be ethical
Cut and paste group sort activity ethical or unethical? (hand out/worksheet included)
Discussion on ethical or unethical practice (answers included on PowerPoint)
Design/display work (A3 handout) - students design a new ethical milkshake brand
Differentiation: higher abilities also add how much their brand will do ethically compared to competitors.
Should be quite a fun lesson for what is often a tedious topic. Some good display work can be produced too if students are allowed time to colour/design their brand ideas.
Would also suit PHSE topics on ethical trading/fair trade etc.
Descriptions of 10 famous people in business.
Great for a small display.
I’ve cut the answers off mine - you could cut these out separately and dot around the display so learners just have to match them up - or perhaps cover the names up.
PDF format as it’s unlikely you’ll have the font to match.
A short, 6 slide PowerPoint, to introduce your learners to the structure of the Cambridge National in Enterprise & Marketing course.
Editable, so you can make it suit your own time scales etc.
Enjoy.
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.
***If you have already bought my lessons on Averages, DO NOT BUY this resource! This is a combination of all four lessons.*** Video preview available below!
This resource combines all four 'averages' lessons into one short unit of work for KS2 or KS3 maths at a discounted price compared to buying them individually (£12 usually in total). Almost a 30% discount here!
The 50+ slide PowerPoint introduces each of the averages separately. Each section/lesson/part includes two teacher led examples (answers on PowerPoint), two activities that students can complete with help/guidance, a longer independent task and review.
All of the worksheets have been combined into a student work booklet to be completed over the series of lessons.
All answers appear on the PowerPoint or on the answer sheets.
Enjoy and, as always, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
This lesson is PERFECT for an end of term Computing lesson or as a really FUN introduction to Scratch Programming.
The 17 slide PowerPoint guides acts as your FULL lesson planning, guiding students through the process of making a racing car game in Scratch. It introduces and explains key terms like Spite, Stage and Variable as the lesson goes along too. If you wish, you could give students the glossary handout to complete throughout the lesson as seven key terms have been highlighted in PINK text to be written into the glossary and defined as the lesson progresses (optional extra!).
The lesson includes a short peer assessment activity to look at each other’s games and offer pointers for improvements. In addition, the code on the handout could be annotated by students as a homework task or additional plenary.
The lesson includes an extension challenge for higher ability students (fully differentiated by outcome, task and resources available to students).
This would really suit KS2 or KS3 classes. My students LOVED it; I’ve used it with all of my year 7 Computing groups as a fun end of term lesson AND with my lower ability year 9 Computer Science GCSE group as an ice breaker introductory lesson to programming basics.
Enjoy!
These booklets are mapped against OCR's GCSE Business Studies NEW Specification (J204).
They cover Unit 1 / Business 1 of the new specification.
Each of the three booklets has 8 homework sheets.
That's 24 HOMEWORK SHEETS! If setting one per week (which is MORE than enough) that's enough for AT LEAST three half terms, or HALF a school year, if not more.
Each booklet has a space for teacher marking - MINIMAL marking though (see the preview).
Look out for the bundle to cover Unit 2 / Business 2 too! Save almost 30%.
Enjoy.
A full bundle of resources from our popular range, covering all the taught aspects of R069 of the updated Cambridge National in Enterprise and Marketing course.
All TAs included.
Visit our website for more useful R069 resources too (loads free!) (Google Mean Business).
Ideally suited to KS2 or KS3 French lessons, though would be equally good for KS4 lower abilities.
This resource introduces French names of nine common vegetables in a PowerPoint show. As always, masculine and feminine nouns are colour coded throughout the resource.
The PowerPoint would be equally useful for classroom display. You could even print on A5 and laminate for a keyword wall or print four to a page for flash cards.
Alongside the PowerPoint is a match-up activity. Print this onto card and laminate for longevity or print on paper and get students to glue the matches into their exercise books.
As an additional bonus activity, there's also a 'dominoes' game and instructions included. Printing and laminating this means it can be used over and over. You could even use this in a separate lesson with the same group to reinforce the translations they have been introduced to in the earlier match-up activity.
Enjoy.
An introduction to organisation/organization charts.
This resource includes a lesson PowerPoint (full lesson), three differentiated activities with increasing difficulty and a lesson review (exit note).
Teachers could either give students the sheet to draw all three charts or give students different examples to complete based on ability, which is why there are different versions.
Teachers may also wish to get students to create the charts themselves OR could use the templates provided - or lower ability students could be provided with the templates.
All companies are fictional, logos designed by me,
Enjoy.
Update: The files marked NEW! include a template for this resource which already has the hyperlinks included in PowerPoint; so if you’re tight on time, students can still make use of this resource without having to learn how to make links. Along with this are 6 challenges (differentiated) and a log for students to complete and take with them - PERFECT for Year 6 Induction in a computer room/IT/Computing lesson.
As it’s the end of term, this fun activity still gets students learning about how to add hyperlinks into PowerPoint presentations. The scary maze can be changed for Santa’s maze, if you’re aiming to do something ‘Christmassy’!
The activity gets students to create a version of the ‘scary maze game’ (Google it!). They find a scary image that, if their users hit the wall of their maze, will flash on the screen (after slides are linked). I don’t want students having nightmares though, so I have provided an alternative ‘nicer maze game’ too!
Included is a student handout, PowerPoint to act as a short lesson guide (two versions - scary and nicer) as well as a scream sound for students to use if placed on a shared area.
As always, feedback is welcome! Enjoy!
*Copyright - I either own everything or it comes from an acknowledged, royalty free source!
This lesson includes an editable lesson plan, PowerPoint for display, group work task, extension tasks, G&T task AND lower ability task.
The lesson starts by recapping or introducing stakeholder groups. Students have a challenge to name or identify as many groups as possible.
Students are then introduced to conflict with a scenario of a new supermarket opening locally. They must work in groups to focus on one stakeholder group each. This is discussed as a class.
Conflict is discussed then an activity concludes the lesson on resolving the potential conflicts identified.
Enjoy.
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Can I first apologise if anyone is actually French and using this! I think I have expertly translated as best I can. Excusez-moi!
This version of my plenary selector gets students to look back at what they have learnt in a French lesson. Slide 1 includes a spinning wheel that can be stopped to choose the plenary for the lesson. There are seven different outcomes so it could be used regularly and routinely in lessons to get students to reflect on their learning, all fully resourced where required.
The PowerPoint took ages to make and code, so please don’t share too readily! You must enable macros on your computer to allow it to work, or get in touch with your IT technician!
Enjoy.
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