Free business lesson ideas
Free template to download for a minizine
6 blank boxes on one sheet of A4. Students fold this into a simple booklet and then fill in the theory from the topic
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Nice back-to-school activity
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Ideal for a reminder of lessons just before a holiday
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Great for retrieval
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Could work as an extended starter
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Works with any topic
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Great for revision or extension
Idea: Paper plate revision starter
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Pack of paper plates £1 for 100 in some stores
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Hand out and ask students to divide them into segments
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They can then practice concise writing in the segments or give examples
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You can colour code RAG rate topics as well
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You ca also do two pens, the first colour they know, the second they had to look up
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Use a WAGOLL so they know what to aim for
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This example was a year 12 group revision
Free: True or false worksheet
Nice quick starter, read the statements and tick of they are true or false
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This is just a template for you to add your statements
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For a stretch and challenge activity ask students to write their own statements and then swap with a partner to see if they get them right.
FREE: Revision Memory Exercise / Game
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Free download (no email required)
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Revision Memory Exercise activity to run in class. Show list one for 2 minutes, they write down what they can remember
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Show list two in story format, they write down what they can remember. Discussion if their score has improved.
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Further discussion of how this method can be used to help them revise for exams
FREE: Definitions spreadsheet activity for Edexcel A Level Business
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Edexcel A Level Business revision
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Divide up between your groups, students have to get the correct definitions for the letters they have been assigned​
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Build into a complete set for the whole class
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Use Google 'Define:blah' to find definitions or trawl past paper mark schemes
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No there is no answer sheet (yet!)
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Perfect activity to set if your student's targets after mocks are to improve their definitions
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Can be set as homework task
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FREE: Thinking matrix activity for Edexcel A Level Business
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Edexcel A Level Business revision
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Also known as thinking quilts
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Students look at the terms and phrases and decide to which category or topic they belong
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They colour in the corner of the cell if they think it belongs to that topic
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Give Theme 1 and Theme 4 and challenge them to make themes 2 and 3 which they can share round the group
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Perfect for students that need to learn key terms
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Shows how topics are interconnected and leads to a discussion of bringing multiple theories into longer essay questions
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Free: Chains of reason worksheet
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This is a chains of reason activity for 3 mark questions
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​You can cut these up and get pairs to identify the two chains or ask students to write out their version of a 3 mark answer
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​This one is for customer service but is intended as a template or idea
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Quick to write a bank of these from the mark schemes of past papers.
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​Example includes answer
FREE: Red Amber Green (RAG) rate revision topics
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Perfect if your students need to revise for a test
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Students fill in the topics in the wheel
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They then use red amber and green (RAG) to highlight the circle up to a line
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You can see at a glance any topics that need revising
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You can also see who needs help and support (lots of red)
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Students use the numbers as a guide to how much they don't know a topic e.g. 5 Red means does not know at all 3 red means knows something but needs to revise (and so on)
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FREE: PEPSI challenge PowerPoint and worksheet
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Ideal for branding or marketing
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You need 3 bottles of cola and paper cups (these were from the Range)
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Students watch PowerPoint and work through the worksheet with you
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Includes a quick silent starter where students draw a Coke and a Pepsi logo
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Perfect for taster days or open evenings or end-of-term activities
Free: Tiered words worksheet
Simple activity challenge students to think of words in 3 tiers. You can name these as a group (Bronze silver gold etc.)
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Improves use of vocab in essays
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Can be used as a retrieval exercise
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Helps to encourage students to reread their notes
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Good to feedback as a class and share suggestions afterwards
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Can be live marked
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Rewards can be given for best tier 3 words
Free: Topic review sheets
USEFUL IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED A UNIT
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Students work back through notes / text book, or whole class with you
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Could also be given as homework
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Review the key theory, cases and vocab for that unit
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I made the template on Canva - it comes as a PDF so it's just here for inspiration.
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Idea adapted from a History starter
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version to download is just the 1.1 for the Edexcel A level
FREE: Crack the code worksheet
Thank you to Helena @LCBusinessJC for this idea please follow her on Twitter
Students have to fill in the blanks with keywords from the unit
Perfect for retrieval
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One A4 page could be projected and students just write down the answers
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The template is editable so you can add in a school logo or numbering
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Challenge students to do each letter in a different colour
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Includes answers on 2nd page
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Nice pairs activity
