Full lesson on Single transferable vote (STV) and supplementary vote (SV) electoral systems used with my Y12 Politics students (Edexcel), includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Pros and cons explained (plus comparisons with other electoral systems) Data & videos Table to complete Homework task Previous lessons below: FPTP (first-past-the-post): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12859872 AMS (additional member system): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12859879

Part 2 of my A-level Business Studies lessons on Organisation Structure (Cambridge, Unit 2) - used with my Year 13 students. Includes: Starter task Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout) Practice questions Lesson covers delayering (advantages and disadvantages of), growing a business’ formal structure and informal organisation structures. Part one of this lesson can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12590907 4-lesson bundle for teaching earlier chapter on Further Human Resource Management (Unit 2, Cambridge) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582

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

AS-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on government failure used with my Y12 students. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Recap of market failure and government intervention Video about consequences of government failure (landfill tax) Case study (with annotated help) 20-mark question with essay planner Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

AS-level Politics lesson (Edexcel) covering Constitutional changes in the UK since 1997 as part of the module on development of the UK constitution, used with my Year 12s. Includes: 2x PowerPoints (with learner activities) Starter recap on sources of the UK constitution Scottish devolution, Welsh devolution, Freedom of Information Act and House of Lords reform explained Homework past paper question Other selected previous lessons: Introduction to the UK constitution: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12622065 Statute Law: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12658611 Sources of the UK constitution: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12658617

AS-level Politics lesson (Edexcel) covering Sources of the UK constitution as part of the module on development of the UK constitution, used with my Year 12s. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter recap on Statute Law (covered in previous lesson here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12658611) Common Law, Conventions, Treaties and Authoritative works explained Past paper practice question Other selected previous lessons: Act of Settlement; Act of Union: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12622116 Parliament Act 1911; 1949: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12637272 European Communities Act: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12658606

IGCSE Business Studies lesson on cash flow & cash flow forecasts (Unit 5, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students. Includes: PowerPoint (with student activities) Practice cash flow forecast activity (with answers) Questions about cash flow & cash flow forecasts Related resources: 8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395

IGCSE Business Studies lesson on Sources of finance (Unit 5, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students (PowerPoint & student work booklet). Related resources: 8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395

A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on the Ansoff Matrix used with my Year 13s. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter on strategic analysis techniques Ansoff Matrix explained Ansoff Matrix detailed example (Coca-Cola) Ansoff Matrix student task (with template) Strategic management glossary / worksheet Previous lessons: SWOT & PEST: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621941 Boston Matrix: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621952 Porter’s Five Forces: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621959 More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

AS Politics lesson (Edexcel) on influence of the media. Full lesson includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter task (looking at newspaper support during previous UK elections) Links to list of UK politics documentaries Past paper essay question Essay planning template Previous lessons that may be of interest: Introduction to voter behaviour & the media): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578155 ‘Typical’ party voters: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578310 Understanding political data: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12580693 Ethnicity, gender & education: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12587224 Governing competence: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591090 Party manifestos: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591103 1979 UK general election: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591105 Political advertising & single issue voting: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591230 British politics in the 1980s & 1990s: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12600509 Tory sleaze: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/tory-sleaze-as-politics-12600514 Full shop for other Politics resources (as well as Economics and Business): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) covering R&D (research and development) and new product development used with my Year 13s. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) R&D mind map Links to videos (R&D at Microsoft; TED Talk) Links to relevant news articles (on UK govt funding for R&D) Question worksheet Essay homework question (with differentiated help grid) The whole lot takes about 3 hours lesson time to complete. Previous lesson on Elasticities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12605612 More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

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

AS-level Business Studies lesson introducing Management & Leadership and Henry Mintzberg (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 12 students. Includes: Starter task PowerPoint Card sort task (some cutting up involved) Practice questions / worksheet

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering Business objectives. Lesson covers profit maximisation, revenue maximisation, sales volume maximisation, divorce of ownership from control. PowerPoint Starter task on business size Worksheet to fill in Homework/class task (depending on length of lesson) Took my Y13s about 2 hours to complete all told. Full shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

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

AS-level Business Studies lesson on Motivation (Herzberg, Vroom & McClelland) used with my Year 12 students (Cambridge, Unit 2). Includes: Starter task (on Taylor, Mayo, Maslow) PowerPoint (with learning tasks) Practice questions Worksheet Link to relevant short video Previous lesson on Taylor, Mayo and Maslow is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12585435

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on internal economies & diseconomies of scale Lesson covers: internal sources of economies & diseconomies of scale (marketing; purchasing; financial; managerial; technical), drawing the LRAC curve and minimum efficient scale. Includes: PowerPoint (with student tasks throughout) Starter task (short-run cost curves) Worksheet (with questions, case studies and graphs to complete) Homework question (with planning sheet) Previous lesson on short-run cost curves is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12587168 Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael