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**Great way to end the year** This is a unique game where students are split into two halves: Sellers - these students have set amounts of stock that they need to sell for the best price possible. Buyers - these students have set amounts of items that they need to buy within a budget. The game runs over three rounds, to give students the opportunity to reflect and change their approach. It teaches them about supply and demand as well as communication and negotiation skills. It will last a full lesson if the entrepreneurial skills worksheet is used and class discussion is held at the end to reflect on what happened and why. There is then the creating a mobile phone activity to use - so if done properly with class discussion there is enough for two hours. The buying/selling game is a real gem, students love it and its great for active/creative learning. I used it at a job interview and it went down very well.

Presentation that covers all ratio's that all A-Level business courses cover. It is split into 5 to 6 lessons depending on whether you do the project at the end. It has the information that students need on each ratio that can be discussed as a class or used to make a good set of student notes - in the first lesson or for homework students are to download company annual reports and print the profit and loss and balance sheet to use to complete practice calculations - or you may have a textbook that you prefer to use. Once you have discussed and made notes practice calculations can commence for the rest of the lesson followed by feedback means your lessons are basically planned for you! Exam style question included at the end.

This is a fun game to play with KS4 or KS5 students. It teaches them about fixed and variable costs, sales, revenue profit and loss - as well as competition. It is currently set up as Christmas Tree Shop as I used it before Christmas, however the scenario could easily be updated. Student tend to get really competitive over who is winning - and curious about how the sales data is worked out, its basically low price high sales volume, high price low sales volume. You can give house points or prizes for each round to encourage competition. Also can link into break even. Includes instructions on the PowerPoint for students and scoring guidance for teacher, do not explain the scoring system to students as it keeps the mystery - they won't work it out as it depends on what price the rest of the class/groups select.

A lesson on quality. Includes quality control, quality assurance and measuring quality. A slide for class discussion on quality and an independent learning activity about quality with help sheets to place around the room.

A range of resources to teach Interest Rates, designed for GCSE level but might be useful at A-Level. Includes activities, definitions, questions and a cut and stick. Plenty of content to teach two hours or more.

A selection of resources to teach business objectives at GCSE level. Should get pupils thinking about such an important but difficult topic to teach. This could be taught in one or two lessons, depending on how long you spend on the activities.

The resource links you to a The Apprentice episode and provides questions which students should answer as you watch the video. You should then discuss their answers. There is enough content to last up to 90 minutes. Topics covered include: objectives, marketing mix, production methods, team work, pricing methods, customer service and analysing mistakes made. A really enjoyable resource ideal for revision before an exam or end of year lessons.

Presentation to use to teach Promotion. Suitable for GCSE level. Contains theory, activities and video links for use as a plenary. One full lessons worth of content.

A detailed minute by minute lesson plan and worksheet on net present value. There is an interesting case study and net present value calculation to complete with answer sheet for the calculations. You could also extent the lesson or set homework to research whether the company has made a good investment as it was a couple of years ago now and more evidence will be available.

This task involves students creating organisational structures based on the development of a business over the period of 5 years. Each time they need to design an organisational chart, during class feedback you can discuss they choices made. Could also be set for homework. Comes with an answer sheet to make life easy! Lasts around 10 to 20 minutes to create charts, followed by feedback of around ten minutes. Constructive feedback welcome.

Presentations to teach the topic of labour effectiveness measurements. Includes theory, pro's/con's of the measures/how to improve them and importantly x2 practice calculations for each measurement. Some tasks included as well as content to teach and discuss. Also includes a revision template. Could last between 2 - 4 lessons depending on how fast you go and how much you discuss the issues. Even if it isn't exactly how you want to teach them lesson it will certainly save you time and give you ideas. Constructive feedback welcome.

All resources needed to teach one lesson of communication to Business or IT students. Lesson plan: 0-10: Word search to identify key terms. 0-15: Discuss the "communication model" and key terms (write in books if you work this way) 15-35: Students to complete "communication at a football club" which is used to show that students understand they key terms. Time allocation includes 5 mins feedback. 35-50: Students to complete the communication breakdown worksheet - use the "notes" document to help students complete the task, either make available to all in small groups or use a differentiation support document. 50-60: Crossword to be used as a plenary, or used as a starter for next lesson. Hope this saves you lots of time with resources. Constructive feedback welcome.

A range of resources to teach Business Plans at GCSE level.

Range of resources to teach marketing mix at GCSE level and could be used at A-level. Enough to cover 2-3 lessons. A "wow" factor idea involving Top Gear, the lads will love this one.

Interesting resources to teach the product element of the marketing mix. Mainly suitable for GCSE level. Contains some interesting points to make students think about the products they know. Resources for other elements of the marketing mix also available. Full lesson worth of content.

Resources to teach the Boston Matrix, designed for GCSE level but might also be of use at A-Level. Includes theory and independent learning activities.

Resources to teach segmentation, socio economic groups and market mapping.

One lesson to teach organisational charts, using a cut and stick activity, two versions of the cut and stick are available so that they can not copy, give lower ability the flat structure. 0-10: Go through PowerPoint slides to explain the principles of organisational charts. 10-35: Students to create organisational chart. 35-50: Students to answer questions on the chart they have created. 50-60: Crossword to check understanding or use as starter for next lesson.

4 Lessons worth of resources to teach critical path analysis to A-Level standard. Lesson 1: Introduction to the idea of CPA, how nodes are structures, calculating EST and LFT, and total float time. Includes theory and practice of simple critical paths. Lesson 2: A number of practice critical path tasks, gradually increasing in difficulty. Lesson 3: Theory to discuss or take notes from on the benefits and problems of CPA. Lesson 4: A medium difficulty critical path for students to create, followed by a much more challenging example. Constructive feedback welcome.

This may not be fully up to date, designed for the AQA GCSE from Sept 2012 **Please read before purchase** This resources breaks down the AQA GCSE Business Studies course down into lessons for both Unit 1 and Unit 2, making planning and organisation much easier. It include lesson objectives, learning outcomes and suggested teaching activities for Unit 1. For Unit 2 there are learning outcomes, some objectives and some suggested teaching activities, it is not as complete as Unit 1 but it is all set up ready to use. I have made a range of resources available on TES that go with the scheme of learning. It is fully editable if you wish to change or add elements and ideas. There is space to add different lesson approaches, so that you can take a different approach depending on the class or teacher preference. There are hyperlinks to key online resources as well as to other places in the document to save time. You can then use the resources space to hyperlink resources for specific lessons. You will find that resources I have shared go with the lessons on the scheme of learning. The purpose of this document as well as organising a department is to encourage people to share ideas on the document and to record approaches that work to save time in the long term. Hope you find it useful in organising the course and saves you time!