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BUSS1 Beat the Teacher - the Thinking Skills Lesson Resource for AQA BUSS1
12th October 2011
BUSS1 Beat The Teacher is a great way to help test whether students have picked up a thorough understanding of core topics on their AS course so far.
Beat the Teacher is a thinking skills activity which involves giving students a page of written text and/ or calculations which contain a number of errors. Students then work individually or in pairs to try and ascertain where the mistakes are.
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Contained on the CD is a range of Beat the Teacher activities that cover all the topics on the AQA AS BUSS1 specification. There are a range of errors contained within the worksheets consisting of errors that are obvious, ones that are stupid and some of which are very subtle and at times a matter of opinion. This makes Beat the Teacher an engaging activity for pupils of all different abilities and an excellent tool for differentiation. Searching for mistakes ensures that students really read the text and this therefore consolidates prior learning.
All of the worksheets on this CD have been tested in the live classroom with Year 12 students ensuring that they are pitched at the appropriate level and some have even been designed in conjunction with Year 12 students.
Suggested use
Beat the Teacher generally works best as a ‘bellwork’ activity i.e. placed on the students’ desk as the class is arriving so that the ‘early birds’ have something to get their teeth into. However, Beat the Teacher works just as well as a whole class starter or as a plenary to consolidate the learning that has just taken place.
Each Beat the Teacher worksheet has an answer sheet with the mistakes highlighted. Some mistakes are so obvious that they need no further comment. However, where the mistakes are a matter of opinion, or can be used to prompt discussion, then an explanatory footer has been given.
Also contained on each answer sheet is the amount of errors contained within the text. It is up to the individual teacher as to how this is used. A good strategy is to give the worksheet out without telling the students how many errors there are in it, but then to divulge this information as the activity progresses. For lower ability students, teachers may consider letting the students know at the start how many mistakes they should be looking for.
Finally, it is extremely important that the teacher runs through the ‘proper’ answers at the end of the activity, otherwise students may think that some of the errors are actually correct!
Enjoy…........