KS4 Curriculum Booklet 2017 - 18

Curriculum Overview KS3

Subject: Business Studies Overview effective from[date ]: September 2017

3.3 Business operations Teach before: 3.2 Influences on business Teach after: 3.4 Human resources 3.3.1 Production processes

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To understand what is meant by job production. To understand what is meant by flow production.

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Methods of production – job Methods of production – flow

Lesson one Practical activity to illustrate job and flow production – students produce bags of Smarties that have eight Smarties in each bag. The colour of Smarties they put in each bag will depend on your customer orders. Groups are given two minutes. Each group must take an order from three other pairs in the room. Each pair in the group gets one order each. Students need to find out what colour Smarties they would like in their bag and write down the orders on their record sheet and then produce the bags of Smarties as ordered. Flow production – in a group of four, students produce as many bags as possible in two minutes. Groups should organise their production process so each individual is in charge of each colour of Smartie and one student is in charge of bagging the Smarties. Alternative version is by creating dice Teacher led explanation of job and flow production. Students discuss which they thought was a more effective production technique in each situation. Lessons two and three Starter – show video clips on flow production – ice cream cones or mince pies – students consider why businesses use flow production.