AQA BUSS1 Thinking Skills Bingo

Fresh out of the tutor2u Learning Laboratory! Graham Prior and Jon Clark have produced this brand new version of Thinking Skills Bingo which is specifically designed to support student revision for AQA BUSS1 (Planning & Starting a Business)You can order AQA BUSS1 Thinking Skills Bingo right now from our online store.The network licence for this resource is just £15!This engaging lesson activity is ready-to-use. Just add students!

I've produced a brief video guide to Thinking Skills Bingo which shows the activity in action!

Thinking Skills Bingo is a powerful activity that can be used as a plenary or starter for topics that have previously been taught or to get students thinking about topics that have not yet been fully delivered. It adds pace and variety to a lesson and can help promote discussion as well as developing students skills of knowledge, application and evaluation in a fun and engaging way.

Thinking Skills Bingo is also a terrific revision activity and enables students to cover a huge amount of material quickly.

This BUSS1 version of the game consists of 21 suggested topics covering key elements of the specification.

For each topic, we've created nine relevant answers. Of course you can add more topics and/or change the answers - just edit the PowerPoint file supplied!

Teaching & Learning Strategies for Thinking Skills Bingo

Thinking skills bingo is excellent for diagnostic assessment as the teacher can check on students understanding of the topic as they are completing their bingo grid. After each answer is revealed, the teacher can explore the answer in more detail via questioning the students. As they are waiting for the next ball to be revealed you have an engaged audience. After all 9 answers have been revealed, it is important to ask students if they had anything different on their sheets as this promotes further understanding and allows the teacher to clear up any misconceptions.

A powerful feature of this game is the ability to change the order in which the answers are revealed. So, an excellent strategy is to say to students that the first 3 balls out will be the 3 most important points/ areas of that topic. This forces students to think of which they believe are the most important points and put these together in a line. This is also excellent for differentiation for students who may not be aware of 9 key issues relating to that particular topic

Another teaching and learning strategy is to leave the balls/ answers on the board and then give students a question on an area of that topic asking them to use some of the key points that have just been discussed within their response

Finally, some of the games can be played with very little prior knowledge of the topic. For example, the teacher could introduce on-the job training and use bingo to get students thinking about the benefits and drawbacks

The topics we've provided in this version are:

1 Nine motives for becoming an entrepreneur

2 Nine characteristics of an entrepreneur

3 Nine key ways of generating and protecting business ideas

4 Nine key points about franchising

5 Nine key points about adding value (including ways and benefits)

6 Nine key points about developing business plans

7 Nine key points about conducting primary research

8 Nine key points about conducting secondary market research

9 Nine factors affecting demand

10 Nine key points about market segmentation

11 Nine key points about sole traders

12 Nine key points about partnerships

13 Nine key points about private limited companies

14 Nine different sources of finance

15 Nine key points about venture capital

16 Nine factors influencing start-up location decisions

17 Nine key issues in relation to employing full-time employees

18 Nine key points about break-even

19 Nine key points about cash flow forecasting

20 Nine key points about budgets

21 Nine key reasons why start-ups fail

You can order AQA BUSS1 Thinking Skills Bingo right now from our online store.