Boredom is the enemy of education. These resources aim to give students an engaging, fun way into topics that are relevant to their lives, including awkward ones like sex education, and informing about issues that are shaping the world and their future. My hope is that they help be an effective tool to the teacher to wake up a hunger for knowledge in students, and that everyone in the classroom would have a more enjoyable and enriching experience because of their use.
Boredom is the enemy of education. These resources aim to give students an engaging, fun way into topics that are relevant to their lives, including awkward ones like sex education, and informing about issues that are shaping the world and their future. My hope is that they help be an effective tool to the teacher to wake up a hunger for knowledge in students, and that everyone in the classroom would have a more enjoyable and enriching experience because of their use.
8-10 lessons on Medical Ethics, including religious teaching (Christian and Muslim) on various procedures that simply did not exist at the time of the formation of these major world religions. Clips, hyperlinks, presentations (ppt) articles and case studies are all included in the 18 files in this bundle. There are also a couple of cover lessons/film lessons if you happen to have a copy of Gattaca or 6th Day.
The topic includes:
Embryo Research
IVF
Surrogacy
Transplants and Transfusions
Genetic Engineering
Human Experimentation
Cloning
Saviour Siblings (briefly in the consolidation/revision session)
I hope it's all very helpful!
Feedback welcome,
David
p.s. Some DVDs on this topic (particularly My Sister's Keeper, Gattaca (and 6th Day to some extent) are good ones to invest in - you can buy these all on youtube)
This is a sensitive topic for many students, and this attempts to include the personal reality of old age and death whilst sensitively exploring the ethical issues around assisted dying/euthanasia. 28 files, including presentations, activities, debates, research tasks, a cover lesson template, word searches, clips and an assessment. Ideal for GCSE RS students.
Including:
Issues faced by the elderly
religious (Christian and Muslim) attitudes to the elderly (resources here which can double as revision resources)
euthanasia (and religious attitudes to euthanasia and suicide)
care homes
hospices
revision lessons
assessments
Debate topics
Feedback always gratefully received.
A set of 7 lessons, including assessment, about inspiring people, including Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Nic Vujici, Aun San Suu Kyi and Gandhi.
The Lesson on Nic Vujicic involves watching this clip, which is inspirational AND funny. It's 45 minutes, so will take up most of a lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvEoLPLIg8
My lot loved it.
Enjoy.
A set of 9 lessons about some of the most awkward stuff a teacher can try to teach. There are presentations, worksheets, online links and assessments all included here and plenty to personalize, adapt and tweek.
Including:
Self Esteem (4 Lessons)
Pornography and Puberty
Condoms
Sexting
Homosexuality and Christianity
Break ups
8 Lessons on the environment and medical ethics including presentations, worksheets, information sheets and activities.
Including:
Environmental Issues
Religious Attitudes to Environmental Issues
Infertility Treatment, and Religious Attitudes
Organ Donation and Transplants
Religious Attitudes to Organ Donations and Transplants
Assessment
Its not the most polished of Schemes of Work, but its all there and space for you to personaliz e it.
Enjoy! :)
11 Lessons, including an assessment, covering:
Causes of War
The Just War Theory
Christian and Muslim Attitudes to War
Jihad (comparison with the Just War Theory)
Nuclear War
Terrorism and War
Independent Research Task
The Sanctity of Life
The Iraq War and Refugees
Assessment
This bundle includes worksheets, videos, presentations, assessment, starters, plenaries and everything you should need to teach this fascinating topic of Peace and Conflict. There's plenty here (hence the size of some of the presentations) so space for trimming slides and activities out. Feedback gratefully received.
A whole scheme of work on Religion in the UK, which includes a parallel SEND SOW as well. 30 files, including powerpoints, marketplace resources, videos, lesson plans and worksheets, as well as youtube links in the PPTs themselves. The links to the 2011 Census are included in the powerpoint notes so you can personalise your lessons to your locality, and Manchester is used as a case study in the multicultural segregation that occurs in cities (i.e. Muslims/Christians/Jews/Hindus/Sikhs congregate together.)
Six lessons in all:
1) Identity: What is 'Britishness' anyway? (challenging xenophobia)
2) Religion in the Stockport & Manchester
3) Humanism in the UK
4) Judaism
5) Religion in the UK
6) Islam in Manchester/Stockport
6b) Islam is good (anti-islamophobia)
7) 'Natural' spirituality: The Case study of Findhorn
8) Assessment (creative dialogue)
SEND:
6 lessons which follow the above but exclude Findhorn.
A whole Holocaust/Shoah scheme of work with videos, worksheets, wordsearches, youtube videos, embedded videos that include real survivors talking about their experience. I've taught and tweeked this over 6 years, teaching it perhaps 30 times, adding a real dimension of Jewish faith and how the Holocaust/Shoah challenged and strengthened different people's faiths. Excellent resource for higher achievers: level 7-8 is quite common with the scafolding here. It starts historical, and then becomes increasingly integrated with the effect on Jewish Faith.
There's really loads here, including 34 files in total, so plenty to chop and change.
Lesson 1: Introduction: 6 258 673
Lesson 2: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Lesson 3: Timeline and Gradual Change in Nazi Germany
Lesson 4: The Ghettos
Lesson 5: Jewish Identity
Lesson 6: The Concentration camps and Anne Frank
Lesson 7: What was lost? Who's to blame?
Lesson 8: Rescuers
Lesson 9: Fight Back! The Bielski Brothers
Lesson 10: Lessons from the Holocaust
Lesson 11: Assessment
An entire 6 lesson bundle about science and religion. Includes videos, youtube links, wordsearches, assessment AND an alternative 5 lesson SEND series of lessons with simpler language and more visual activities. All for £3. Bargain.
9-11, ISIS and The Truth and Reconciliation Trials. Here are 3 examples of terror and a lesson about moving forward, past the cycle of retribution. A highly rated resource with over 6000 downloads in the past, and now monetized as they are a three in one pack! Includes a trimmed down version of what caused 9-11.
UPDATED from last year with more detailed exploration of all topics. A Resource written, compiled and edited by yours truly which should cost about £1 to print in school. Students can hopefully buy this from your department, and it is a good middle ground between the official revision guide and, well, nothing at all! :) My students have found it very helpful. Covering Islam and Christianity, mainly, with a smattering of Buddhism.
Also includes the most challenging exam questions from past papers on the last pages, as well as an overview from AQA.
An attempt to help students understand how we might move past the viciousness of violence and extremism using the examples of the truth and reconciliation commission and Desmond Tutu.
A lesson, more like two really, exploring what the Hajj is, why people do it, and how the Hajj effects Muslims. They hyperlinks in the PPT (image link on second slide and last slide) are to two excellent videos.
Ext: why do different Muslims go on Hajj for different reasons?
The idea of this PPT is to print out the pages of the Gurus and a story about their lives so students can convert the information into a poster, or put it onto a timeline, or create a marketplace activity.
Hopefully this is some useful raw material for you to work your creative magic on. It's supposed to show how Sikhism developed from a spontaneous vision of the first Guru (Nanak) into a world religion heavily shaped by oppression and military necessity (Gobindh Singh).
Hope it&'s helpful!
Be well,
d
A PPT with a variety of extensions to give students an idea about what all the fuss is about. The PPT itself is pretty self explanatory, and contains links to a variety of youtube videos (some are animations) as well as the Specials 'Free Nelson Mandela&' single. What a legend!
There is a prezi that comes with this lesson plan, the link for which can be found as a hyperlink in the lesson plan itself.
Or copy and paste:
http://prezi.com/m8egb_g7wt1d/religious-revolutionaries/
Religious leaders often seem able to draw on a well of internal strength that allows them to fight for - and sometimes die for - social justice. This resource is designed with an independent study phase so students can choose who they wish to study, which can be found in the PDF file.
Enjoy!
Chandra Bose has been likened to Malcolm X in comparison to MLK, but when compared with Gandhi. He led a profoundly effective campaign at forcing the British out of India through armed resistance, but is greatly neglected by a narrative that prefers non-violent protest.
Key question: Is violence justified when fighting injustice?