This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Knowledge of God’s Existence, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Innate Sense of the Divine
Natural Knowledge of God
Revealed Knowledge of God
Jesus Christ
Barth and Brunner
Are natural and revealed knowledge the same?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Sexual Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Premarital and Extramarital Sex
Homosexuality
Natural Law
Situation Ethics
Utilitarianism
Kantian Ethics
Do religious views still have a role in modern sexual ethics?
Is sexual behaviour private?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1.5 hours) as part of the Christian Practices Unit. Lesson includes:
- Starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Video Activity
- Card Sort
- Worksheet
-Application Task
- Plenary
- Differentiation (where necessary)
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
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AQA GCSE Religious Studies: Theme F: Human Rights: exam practise pack
This 24-page pack was created to support learners to prepare for their GCSE examination in Religious Studies: Humand Rights & Social Justice - the whole unit, downloaded as both an editable Word document and a PDF (for compatibility). If you are teaching a different specification, the questions can easily be edited to suit these specifications, which assess the information in a simliar way, making this resource relevant to all specifications.
The pack includes:
RAG rating of the specification
Knowledge and understanding relating to the specification
Key words and definitions
Exam practise
Answers / sample answers
Topics covered:
Human Rights and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
Social Justice and Religious Attitudes to Equality
Freedom of Religious Expression
Prejudice, including the Role of Women in Religion
Prejudice, including the Status of Homosexuality in Religion
Racism
Wealth and Poverty
Responsibilities to the Poor
Charity and Religious Responses to Social Injustice
Created with the AQA RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Karl Marx and Liberation Theology, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Death and the Afterlife, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Christian teachings on heaven
Christian teachings on hell
Assessing teachings on heaven and hell
Purgatory
Election
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Religious Pluralism (in Theology and Society), as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a revision sheet indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Business Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Whistleblowing
Globalisation and Business
Utilitarianism and Business
Kantian Ethics and Business
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Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1 1/2 hours) and explores Jewish Practices: Holy Books, including, Tenakh (Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim) and Talmud (Mishnah and Gemara).
- Starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Card Sort Chart activity
- Fill in the blank
- What makes a Torah kosher?
- Exam practise with exam technique
- Exam feedback (peer assessment)
- Plenary: Builds on starter knowledge to demonstrate progress
- Full PPT
- Lesson Plan
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: The Nature or Attributes of God, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Omnipotence
Omnibenevolence
Eternal / Everlasting God
Omniscience
Conflicts / Issues
Limits to the Attributes
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Situation Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as a Word document and as a PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Fletcher
Agape
Four working principles
Six propositions
Application of Situation Ethics
Situationism as a religious theory
Analysing SE
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Utilitarianism, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. A3 Word document and A4 PDF included, for campatibility.
Resource Includes:
Bentham (utility)
Hedonic calculus
Mill’s utilitarianism
Act and rule utilitarianism
Analysing utilitarianism
Peter Singer (preference utilitarianism)
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Religious Language, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
The Apophatic Way / Via Negativa
Strengths and weaknesses of the apophatic way
The Cataphatic Way / Via Positive
Strengths and weaknesses of the cataphatic way
Tillich and Symols
Strengths and weaknesses of Tillich
Ramsey
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Conscience, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Aquinas
Freud
J.H. Newman
Evaluation of theories
Guilt
Fromm
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Religious Experience, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
William James
Mystical Experiences
Conversion Experiences
Corporate Experiences (and assessing corporate experiences)
The case for religious experience
Psychological or physiological experiences
RE as a basis for belief in God or a higher power
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Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1 1/2 hours) and explores Jewish Practices: Rituals, including, Bar and Bat Mitzvah/Brit Milah/Weddings/Funerals/Shiva, to support the new GCSE specifications on the Study of Judaism. Lesson includes:
- Starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Fill in the blank
- Research task
- Exam question planning
- Exam practise with exam technique
- Exam feedback (peer assessment)
- Plenary: Tell Everyone!
- Full PPT
- Lesson Plan
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 2 hours). Lesson includes:
- Reflection starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Definition task
- Image activity: Does this person have dignity. Why/why not?
- Circle human rights abuses / people without dignity task
- Christian views about human dignity (activity and questions)
- Optional leaflet activiy (class dependent)
- Exam practise, with exam technique
- Summary challenge
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
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A3 Revision mat for Judaism: Beliefs & Teachings. Entire unit on one revision sheet.
Resource includes:
1. Nature of God
2. Denominations
3. Shekhinah
4. Messiah
5. Creation
6. Covenants (Abraham and Moses)
7. Ten Commandments
8. Pikuach Nefesh
9. Free Will
10. Mitzvot and Mitzvah Day
11. Afterlife
12. Key concept words and definitions
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource. Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Augustine
Assessing Augustine
Hick
Assessing Hick
Is God spared the blame?
Doe soul-making justify evil?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Euthanasia, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Sanctity of life
Quality of life
Autonomy
Acts and omissions
Natural Law on euthanasia
Situation ethics on euthanasia
Analysis
Exam questions (35 marks) and exam technique
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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