
Business Education and Technology for CfE Level 3
Hodder Gibson (Publisher)
Published on 28. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-4441-5866-3 (ISBN)
Description
Business and Technology Level 3 offers a springboard to learning completely aligned to the principles of Curriculum for Excellence, and covers the outcomes and experiences at Level 3 in Business Education, including Business, Economics, Enterprise, Finance, Administration and IT, with a mapping grid provided to ensure such coverage. Relevant links to Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing are also mapped. The book is based on a fictional garden centre business and all content and activities are derived from the business concept. Content and activities are organised as Integrated Learning Objects (ILOs) and each ILO includes knowledge notes, student tasks and definitions of key terms. The book also: encourages individual and group work, as well as opportunities to experience and develop organisational and planning skills incorporates the use of ICT to research, communicate, organise and present information provides a range of opportunities to develop critical thinking and peer and self-evaluation skills connects with a range of other curricular areas
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Approx. 20 colour illustrations and 20 colour photos
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
194 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4441-5866-3 (9781444158663)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Alistair Wylie taught in secondary schools and lectured in further education for over ten years delivering the range of Business and IT subjects. He holds an honours degree in Business Law and a PGCE and Masters in Education and has worked for the Higher Still Development Unit and the SQA as well as several other educational bodies. He has written and consulted on several titles for Hodder. Lee Coutts has worked as a teacher and lecturer in Business at both school and college level. He holds an honours degree in Business and Professional Education. He is an experienced author as well as having worked on several projects and panels for the SQA.
Content
Introduction Huntingdale Garden Centre background information ILO 1 Why business? Why here? ILO 2 How much? Can we afford this? ILO 3 Getting bigger? Is it 'fair'? ILO 4 How green can we go? ILO 5 How can we be enterprising? ILO 6 What's sustainability and ethics all about? ILO 7 How can we help the local community? ILO 8 Can we make money out of being green? ILO 9 Technology development Appendices Mapping grid Index