BUSS4 Research Theme - Merger and Takeover Egg Heads

I often find that one of the key challenges with the AQA BUSS4 research theme is finding ways to engage the students with the material in lessons and keeping them motivated and interested in the theme until the Summer.

With this in mind, I will be blogging about some strategies that I have successfully used in the past to engage the students and applying them to the new theme: take-overs and mergers.

This activity is really simple to do as well as the students doing all the work.

Find two juicy merger or takeover case studies. Lots of content, something for the students to get their teeth into. Then, split the class into four groups. Two groups are the question generators and two groups are the egg heads. Give each group one of the case studies. The question masters need to read the material and write down 15/ 20 questions on that merger or takeover. The egg heads need to read the material and prepare themselves for the questions. They also need to assign a key egg head.

Then, the egg heads come to the front of the class. The relevant group asks the egg heads their questions on the merger or takeover. They can answer only once but can confer. The key egg head is the only one allowed to answer. This continues to all the questions have been asked then the next team come to the front.

I did this last year with CSR and it worked brilliantly. The question masters engage with the material as they try to write questions to outfox the egg heads. The eggheads engage so that they can answer as many questions as possible. Its also fully inclusive as its a group activity.

You can score it a number of ways, egg heads against egg heads and question generators against question generators is always a good one.