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Curriculum Overview KS3
Subject:
Business Studies
Overview effective from[date
]:
September 2017
3.3 Business operations
Teach before: 3.5 Marketing
Teach after: 3.4 Human resources
3.3.1 Production processes
Specification
content
Learning
objectives
Additional
guidance
Suggested
timing
(hours)
Learning activities and resources
Methods of
production – job
Methods of
production –
flow
To understand
what is meant by
job production.
To understand
what is meant by
flow production.
2
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.
Lesson two
Starter – show video clips on flow production –
ice cream cones
or
mince pies
– students
consider why businesses use flow production.