AQA BUSS2 Thinking Skills Bingo

This is a great revision and teaching resource to support students preparing for AQA BUSS2 (Managing a Business). tutor2u's Graham Prior and Jon Clark have developed a thinking skills exercise that enables students to cover a huge amount of the BUSS2 specification each time they are challenged to play BUSS2 Thinking Skills Bingo!You can order AQA BUSS2 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!

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 AQA BUSS2 version of the game consists of 26 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

1 Nine ways to improve cash flow

2 Nine key points about measuring and improving profitability

3 Nine key points about organisational structure

4 Nine key points about the recruitment process

5 Nine key points about internal recruitment

6 Nine key points about on–the-job training

7 Nine key points relating to Herzberg's theory of motivation

8 Nine key points relating to delegation/ empowerment

9 Nine key points relating to high capacity utilisation

10 Nine methods of matching production with demand

11 Nine benefits of producing a quality product/ service

12 Nine points relating to Total Quality Management (TQM)

13 Nine key points relating to monitoring and improving customer service

14 Nine benefits of strong customer service

15 Nine factors affecting the choice of suppliers

16 Nine benefits of using technology in operations

17 Nine issues relating to greater use of technology in operations

18 Nine points relating to operating in a mass market

19 Nine influences on the marketing mix

20 Nine key points about the Boston Matrix

21 Nine key points about the product life cycle

22 Nine influences on the promotional mix

23 Nine pricing strategies or tactics

24 Nine influences on a businesses choice of price

25 Nine influences on distribution in the marketing mix

26 Nine ways to improve a firms competitiveness