Ethical Issues - Abortion

This series of resources revolves around the PowerPoint, which contains a range of activities for students, including reading activities (with recent BBC News stories on the topic provided), fill in the blanks, the most recent UK data on abortion to analyse and an extended writing task, which can be a great piece for an assessment. The main focuses of the lesson are the facts about abortion in the UK, the laws about abortion in the UK, key abortion data, an abortion in the US case study (with a focus on the recent changes to US law) and a look basic Christian attitudes to abortion.

Overall, the (fully editable) PowerPoint is 33 slides in length and likely to take 2-3 lessons to complete. It was originally created to cover two 1-hour lessons, but always seems to take longer if you let the debates run!

A NOTE ABOUT MY POWERPOINTS:

All slides have information for delivery provided in the ‘Notes’ section.
Gold boxes contain information that can be read to the class; it’s also a good opportunity to select a student to read for literacy.

Blue ‘TASK’ boxes are always tasks to be completed (these may link to an extra resource that has been provided, such as a worksheet). There will also be a ‘sound level icon’ suggested for these (there is also a slide at the end full of sound levels icons that you can use to edit). Some tasks also have key careers/employability skills indicated.

Orange ‘CONSIDER’ boxes are questions that can be discussed as a class or in groups.

Green ‘EXTENSION’ boxes are extra work/challenge for those who complete the main blue box tasks or are otherwise ready for something more difficult.
Red boxes generally have some information hidden behind them and will reveal as you click through the PowerPoint.