AQA GCSE Business - Thinking Skills Bingo

Many thanks for Graham Prior and Jon Clark who have produced this brand new version of Thinking Skills Bingo which is specifically designed to support student revision for AQA GCSE Business Studies.You can order AQA GCSE Business Thinking Skills Bingo from our online store.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.

This game consists of 41 activities covering key elements of the AQA GCSE Business Studies specification for Unit 1 (Starting a Business) and Unit 2 (Growing a Business).

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 the AQA GCSE Business version are:

AQA GCSE Unit 1: Starting a Business

• Nine reasons for starting your own business
  
• Nine characteristics of entrepreneurs
  
• Nine key points about franchising
  
• Nine key points about aims and objectives
  
• Nine key points about stakeholders
  
• Nine key points about business planning
  
• Nine key points about sole traders
  
• Nine key points about partnerships
  
• Nine key points about private limited companies
  
• Nine key factors affecting location
  
• Nine key points about conducting primary research
  
• Nine key points about conducting secondary research
  
• Nine key points about the marketing mix
  
• Nine key points about sources of finance
  
• Nine key points about cash flow
  
• Nine key points about the benefits of motivation/ways to motivate
  
• Nine key points about protecting staff through legislation
  
• Nine key points about job production
  
• Nine key points about batch production
  
• Nine key points about importance of customer service/ giving good service
  

AQA GCSE Unit 2: Growing a Business

• Nine benefits/ risks of expanding a business
  
• Nine methods of expanding a business
  
• Nine potential impacts that growth may have on stakeholders
  
• Nine benefits/ drawbacks of converting from an LTD to a PLC
  
• Nine objectives of a growing business
  
• Nine issues of overseas expansion/ location
  
• Nine key points relating to the product lifecycle
  
• Nine key points about price and influences on price
  
• Nine key points about promotion and selecting the promotional mix
  
• Nine key points about distribution channels and their influences
  
• Nine key points about raising finance via retained profit/ share issue
  
• Nine key points about profit and loss accounts and their interpretation
  
• Nine key points about balance sheets and their interpretation
  
• Nine key points about organisational structure
  
• Nine key points about on-the-job training
  
• Nine key points about appraisal systems
  
• Nine key points about autocratic management style
  
• Nine key points about flow production
  
• Nine key points about just-in-time production
  
• Nine key points benefits and challenges of growth