GCSE Religious Studies Learning Mats Knowledge organiser Christianity and Islam

These learning mats/knowledge organisers are designed to offer small chunks of information per topic for GCSE AQA Christianity and Islam. They cover all the beliefs and practices in the specification.
Each Mat/Organiser can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom.
It is best suited to middle to low ability especially where all pupils in a cohort are doing the GCSE. Higher ability pupils can use to prompt and check learning too.
I have included the essential information so pupils can begin to write more ‘religious’ responses as per the specification.
It is crucial that any resource can be used in multiple ways especially when colleagues spend time and effort making them and pupils do respond in different ways.

• It can be used to check what pupils know as part of retrieval practice
• It can be used to test learners
• It can be used for paired/group activities in Paper 1 Beliefs and practices
• It can be used as a revision aid based on what the teacher has taught.
• It can be used to support modelling for pupils for AO1.
• It can be used to support scaffolding especially where pupils are engaged in I do/we do/you do.
• It can be printed and handed out every lesson to check previous learning.
• Pupils can add to it with more advanced information.
• Itcan be used as a knowledge organiser.
• It can be uploaded for pupils in Microsoft Teams or Google Classroom for online learning for those who are not attending school.
• It worked very well with my Year 11 groups.
• The MATS/knowledge organisers can be repeated throughout the learning cycle to promote retrieval and progress.
  I will eventually upload as separate as not everyone may do Islam Beliefs and practices at GCSE.