GCE Economics B: delivery support
GCE Economics B: delivery support
Resources, both free and paid-for, which might support your teaching of Edexcel GCE Economics B.
There is a sister page to help you understand the assessment of this qualification.
Free support
The qualification page provides:
- a Getting Started Guide (which provides more detailed specification guidance)
- an editable scheme of work
- course planners
- content from past training events
- options evening materials (poster and leaflet)
The pre-released context document for Paper 3 focuses on a broad context, such as an economy, industry, market or economic issue.
A new context is provided at the very end of November every year and relates to the examination series for the following summer.
The following resources allow you access to support in the form of case studies and up-to-date news stories:
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FT for Schools
The FT's free online subscriptions to students aged 16-19, their teachers, and schools around the world, is a very valuable resource for all Economics teachers.
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Using Twitter as a resource bank
If you are looking for resources that might be appropriate for a particular topic and are looking for an up-to-date story that has been in the news, it is possible that another teacher had an interesting idea and tweeted it. Use #EconBT1, #EconBT2, #EconBT3 and #EconBT4 to search for relevant stories. For Paper 3 you may wish to share resources and ideas using the #EconBPaper3 hashtag. You can also contribute by sharing interesting stories using the same hashtags.
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Free topical case studies every month
Ian Marcouse's Topical Cases are emailed to subscribers every month and are free to subscribers. These include exam-style case studies with answers as well as revision tests. The stories used are all very current (topical) and, as they are sent in Word, can be easily adapted as you wish.
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GCE Economics B dropbox folder
There are resources you might be able to use and/or adapt in the GCE Economics B dropbox folder.
Paid-for support
There are no endorsed resources for this qualification but there are a number of unendorsed resources available from commercial providers.
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The Anforme Economics B Collection
Anforme published student books and teacher packs for each theme as well as revision books. Anforme has now closed but many Anforme resources are available in the Economics Factory.
- Worksheets from A-Z
- Worksheets and presentations from Time2 Resources
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Photocopiable and digital resources from ZigZag
Zig Zag also publishes a resource pack for the Paper 3 research context.
Networking
We have a GCE Economics B Facebook group where you can share ideas and post questions. The group has over 240 members.
As well as the Facebook group there is a new, public, subject community where you will be able to see all posts without logging in, although you will need to log in with your Edexcel Online details to post a comment.
Subject advisor
Colin Leith
Economics
