Lesson Plan, Practical Lab & Activities
Business Process Support (3-Month Plan)
This document provides a 3-month teaching plan for the Pearson BTEC HND Unit: Business
Process Support. It includes a weekly lesson plan, practical labs, and activities to ensure
completion within the given timeframe.
Overall Schedule
• Duration: 12 weeks (3 hours per week ≈ 36 contact hours)
• Format: 2 hours lecture/discussion + 1 hour practical/activity
• Assessment: Ongoing assignments, presentations, and final project
Weekly Lesson Plan
Week Topics / Learning Key Activities & Labs
Outcomes
1 Introduction to Business Activity: Discussion on
Process Support – Role of examples of how businesses
data and information in use data to make decisions.
business (LO1)
2 Value of Data – Structured Lab: Identify and classify
vs. unstructured data, data datasets as structured or
reliability (LO1) unstructured.
3 Mechanisms for Data Practical: Demonstrate tools
Generation and Storage – for collecting and storing
Human vs. machine real-world datasets.
generated data (LO1)
4 Social, Legal & Ethical Activity: Research GDPR
Implications of Data Use and present its impact on
(LO2) data handling practices.
5 Cybersecurity & Data Lab: Perform a basic data
Protection – Threats and security assessment using
mitigation strategies (LO2) open-source tools.
6 Introduction to Data Practical: Explore a sample
Science – Overview, key job dataset using Python or
roles, and skills (LO3) Excel for descriptive
analysis.
7 Data Handling Techniques – Lab: Write a simple Python
Data types, formats, script to clean and process a
automation (LO3) dataset.
8 Data Mining & Predictive Activity: Apply a basic
Modelling – Trends, predictive model to a real
clustering, forecasting dataset and interpret
(LO3) results.
9 Business Process Modelling Lab: Create a business
– Tools and standards for process diagram using
process analysis (LO4) BPMN tools like Lucidchart
or Bizagi.
10 Designing Data Science Practical: Draft a plan for a
Solutions – Requirements data-driven solution for a
gathering, system design chosen business scenario.
(LO4)
11 Implementation & Testing – Lab: Build a simple
Developing a user-friendly dashboard in Power BI or
interface (LO4) Tableau for business
decision support.
12 Capstone Project Activity: Final group
Presentation – presentations of data
Recommendations for science solutions and their
business process impact on business
improvements (All LOs) processes.
Practical Lab Schedule
Lab Objective Tools
Lab 1 Dataset Classification Identify structured vs.
unstructured data
Lab 2 Data Collection & Storage Use tools to collect and
store datasets
Lab 3 GDPR Compliance Research Analyze data handling
practices under GDPR
Lab 4 Cybersecurity Assessment Perform a basic security
analysis on a sample dataset
Lab 5 Python Data Cleaning Write a Python script to
clean and process data
Lab 6 Predictive Modelling Apply forecasting
techniques to a dataset
Lab 7 Business Process Modelling Create a BPMN diagram for
a business process
Lab 8 Dashboard Development Build a dashboard to
visualize business data
Suggested Activities & Assessments
• Weekly Quizzes: MCQs to test understanding of data science concepts and data ethics.
• Mini Presentations: Share research on data privacy laws or predictive modelling results.
• Group Project (Final): Design and implement a data science solution to solve a real-world
business problem, including a dashboard and business process recommendations.
Completion Strategy
• Pace: Cover at least 1 Learning Outcome every 2–3 weeks to complete all four within 12
weeks.
• Integration: Practical labs reinforce lecture content weekly.
• Final Project: Demonstrates application of data science techniques and business process
improvements.