Extensive coverage of the curriculum for KS4 Business Studies
Investigate business matters in detail with comprehensive and varied teaching material, like this interactive profit and loss account activity. With over 750 slides in total, Boardworks has it covered, whichever syllabus you’re teaching.
- Comprises 31 presentations of comprehensive teaching material divided into five units: Investigating Business; Organizational Structure; People in Business; Financial Records; and Financial Planning.
- Suitable for both the applied and non-applied 2009 GCSE specifications, with useful mapping grids matching the resources to your specification.
- The wealth of material contained in each presentation enables you to explore and teach business studies in detail.
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 about marketing and publicity, 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.
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 activities, like this one about using ICT to ensure rollercoaster safety, help students to understand complex processes and theories.
- Step-by-step simulations, informative source-based material and topical case studies help simplify difficult business concepts.
- Exciting animations and multimedia material create variety and interest in lessons.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore business studies in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. In this open-ended activity, students consider the importance of business location by dragging different types of businesses onto a map and giving reasons for their location choice.
- Introduce your students to important facts, theories and concepts with exciting animations and diagrams.
- Motivate and inspire your students with original interactive projects and fun games.
- Over 220 Flash activities are embedded throughout the lessons.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Encourage class participation and understanding of key business concepts with visually appealing and exciting activities. This colourful interactive picture, for example, provides an engaging examination of UK health and safety regulations.
- Break down difficult topics in a memorable way with step-by-step animations and click-and-reveal exercises.
- Spark discussion and debate on important business issues using voting charts, animated graphs and opinion panel activities.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks Business Studies you can easily tailor the lessons to the needs of your students. This drag-and-drop activity can be used in a number of ways – as an introduction to the topic of start-up and running costs, to spark a class discussion, or as part of a revision 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 used flexibly 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 Thorpe Park’s customer service policies, 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.
- Embedded spreadsheet activities – also provided as separate files – can be used to demonstrate complex calculations and as templates by students.
- Detailed glossaries serve as useful tools for reference and are a great way to test class knowledge of key business vocabulary.
Engaging summary material
Conclude your lessons with engaging summary activities – like this interactive quiz, which is an ideal revision aid. Whatever your teaching style and requirements, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- 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 exam questions, which are easily adaptable and include sample answers.
