Extensive coverage of the core units for the BTEC First Business qualification
Help students gain a thorough grounding in the business sector with comprehensive and varied teaching material, like this interactive picture which shows typical cash inflows and outflows for business organisations. With over 400 slides in total, Boardworks has Edexcel's BTEC First Business covered.
- Comprises 12 presentations of comprehensive teaching material divided into four core units in line with the 2010 specification: Business Purpose; Business Organizations; Financial Forecasting for Business; and People in Organizations
- Boardworks BTEC First Business Plus provides comprehensive coverage of the core units plus the additional units: Unit 11, Customer Relations in Business; and Unit 15, Bookkeeping for Business.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All lessons are coherently structured and enhanced by a wealth of material to stimulate and inspire your students. Typical slides, like this one which explains the Partnership Act, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with relevant illustrative material.
- Key learning objectives are clearly defined at the beginning of each presentation and in the contents document, enabling you to plan your lessons with ease.
- Colourful illustrations, informative photographs and clear diagrams supplement key facts and aid overall understanding.
- Activities and assignments are clearly marked with grading criteria for achieving pass, merit and distinction.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach with a variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Informative interactive tutorials, like this one about creating a break-even chart, divide complex business concepts down into easily-digestible chunks.
- Step-by-step simulations, informative source-based material and topical case studies help simplify difficult business concepts and place them in a real-life context.
- Exciting animations and multimedia material create variety and interest in lessons.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore BTEC First Business in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. This activity generates a number of unfortunate scenarios to help students understand the business context in which organisations operate.
- Introduce your students to key facts, theories and concepts with exciting animations and diagrams.
- Motivate and inspire your students with original interactive projects and fun games.
- One in three slides is enriched with interactive content.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Encourage class participation and understanding of the business sector with visually appealing and exciting activities. This mind map encourages students to think about and discuss the various costs involved in starting a new business.
- Interactive activities simulate workplace scenarios and complement the vocational nature of the course.
- Break down difficult topics in an easy-to-recall way with step-by-step animations and click-and-reveal exercises.
- Spark discussion and debate of important business issues using voting charts, animated graphs and opinion panel activities.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks BTEC First Business you can easily tailor the lessons to the needs of your students. This engaging hot seat activity can be used as an introduction to a discussion about aims and objectives, or as a recap exercise.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Exercises and activities can be adapted to support your own teaching methods and meet the individual learning requirements of your class.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations are complemented by numerous additional resources to enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. Topical case studies, like this one about a co-operative business, are vital for helping students relate their learning to real-life examples.
- Detailed teacher’s notes provide suggested answers to questions posed, relevant web links and ideas for extension activities.
- Worksheets and spreadsheet files can be used to extend the lessons and to assign homework exercises.
Engaging summary material
Conclude your lessons with engaging extension activities. In this practice assignment activity, students are asked to imagine they are a restaurant manager and produce a handout for new staff detailing various customer needs and expectations.
- Motivational summary material tests your students’ knowledge and understanding.
- End-of-topic plenaries, such as multiple choice exercises and evaluative games, cover the entire content of the course.
- Each presentation includes a set of practice assignment activities, which are clearly mapped to the Edexcel grading criteria and Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS).
