I'm Head of Department and AQA examiner for Religious Studies. I teach the AQA spec and provide tried and tested resources. I'm uploading resources all of the time; my newest collection is the #FUN LESSONS range which are engaging, exam focused, challenging and getting great results. Lessons are fully resourced and easy to follow with minimal printing. I hope you enjoy teaching them.
I'm Head of Department and AQA examiner for Religious Studies. I teach the AQA spec and provide tried and tested resources. I'm uploading resources all of the time; my newest collection is the #FUN LESSONS range which are engaging, exam focused, challenging and getting great results. Lessons are fully resourced and easy to follow with minimal printing. I hope you enjoy teaching them.
Concise, easy to follow and comprehensive, ‘MASTERY’ and exam-focused lesson.
Date on slide updates automatically
**Resource light **
Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists (notes on slides)
SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING:
AQA RS ISLAM PRACTICES: Festivals: Id-ul-Adha
Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority):
• Explain why Id-Ul-Adha is celebrated
• Explain two ways Id-Ul-Adha is celebrated 5 mks
Activities include:
Customisable recap starter (just add two questions), reading and question task, mini-plenary quiz with ‘stretch and challenge’ questions, ‘depth and mastery’ (partnered discussion), debate, ‘Skills mastery’, model answer analysis, exam question with peer assessment & student friendly success criteria.
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
Sacraments: Eucharist / Holy Communion CHRISTIAN PRACTICES. #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety to tasks and multimedia to stimulate learning and is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike.
You can use props for the main activity e.g. red squash/Disco crisps – but I often ask the kids to improvise and their creativity can make it even more fun.
There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout
Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists
SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING:
‘‘Sacraments: Eucharist / Holy Communion’ Christian Practices AQA
Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority):
• To explain the origins, symbolism and significance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist
• Explain differences within Christianity with regards to the practice of the Eucharist
Activities/resources include:
Customisable recap do-now starter
a variety of tasks to gain an in-depth understanding of:
• The Origins of the Sacrament
• The events of the Last Supper
• Relevance of the Gospel of Luke and the New Covenant
• Role play: Catholic / Anglican service of mass
• Differences between Catholic and Anglican denominations including transubstantiation -v- Real Presence.
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
ISLAM PRACTICES: SHIA ISLAM TEN OBLIGATIONS #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused.
• Includes recap on 5 pillars and Jihad
• Includes peer assessment (with answers)
• Includes pronunciation audio recordings for Arabic terms
• No hands up planned questioning
• Plenary quiz to help retain knowledge
• Little printing required, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Emphasis on exam skills for 5 mark questions
• Suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY):
Explain the Ten Obligations of Shia Islam and how these influence the lives of Shia Muslims
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
ISLAM PRACTICES, FESTIVALS: ID-UL-ADHA #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused.
• Includes model answer and peer assessment
• Includes memory aids to help recall in exams
• No hands up planned questioning
• Key term bingo to help recall Islam beliefs and Islam practices
• No printing required, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY):
Explain the meaning and significance of Id-ul-Adha: including
• Origins
• How it is celebrated
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
ISLAM PRACTICES - TEST LESSON #FUN LESSONS
INCLUDES:
• Independent revision session (using notes and/or HW set in the revision lesson of the Islam Practices #Fun lessons series)
• Warm up test – with peer assessment
• Test: 5 exam style questions (1,2,3,4,5)
• Test support slide: success criteria and writing frames
• Mark scheme with indicative content and success criteria
ISLAM PRACTICES SCHEME OF LEARNING #FUN LESSONS
THIS SOL COMPLEMENTS THE BUNDLE: ISLAM PRACTICES #FUN LESSONS
THIS IN-DEPTH SCHEME OF LEARNING **PROVIDES DETAILS OF: **
• Learning objectives
• Task details
• Differentiation & Support
• Assessment (proof of learning)
• Homework (research/recap rotation) with weblinks
THE LESSONS INCLUDED ARE:
Introduction and Shahadah
Salah: Ritual prayer
Salam: Ramadan
Alms Giving: Zakah, sadaqah and Khums
Hajj
Jihad
Id-ul-Adha
Id-ul-Fitr & Ashura
Ten obligatory Acts (Shia Islam)
Revision
Test
THEME C (THE EXISTENCE OF GOD): FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT
& EVALUATION #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused.
• Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY):
Explain Aquinas’s First Cause argument for the existence of God.
Evaluate whether the First Cause argument successfully proves the existence of God.
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
THEME C: EXISTENCE OF GOD: SPECIAL REVELATION & EVALUATION. #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused.
• Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY):
Explain 2 examples of Special Revelation and:
• How each might prove the existence of God/Holy figures
• What each might reveal about the Nature of God/Holy figures
• Why these might be a reliable source of knowledge of the divine
• Why these might not be a reliable source of knowledge of the divine
Answer 12 mk question: Special Revelations are the best source of knowledge about God. Evaluate
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
A GRADE MODEL ANSWER: Religious Pluralism undermines Christian Doctrine Evaluate.
Complete essay includng thesis and conclusion. Demonstrates OCR success critiera for a top level answer.
Includes reference to scholars:
Kramer, Barth, Craig, Hick, Rahner.
**Sources of wisdom: **
Bible and Quran
SUBSTANCE DUALISM. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. OCR A LEVEL.
MODEL ANSWER: CRITICALLY DISCUSS DESCARTES SUBSTANCE DUALISM
Exemplar Essay: Thesis, body and conclusion
Demonstrates OCR success criteria for a top-level answer.
INCLUDES REFERENCE TO SCHOLARS:
Descartes, Plato, Geach, Dawkins, emergent property dualism, Ryle, Identity theory, Leibniz
SOURCES OF WISDOM:
Bible
Quran
TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. OCR A LEVEL. MODEL ANSWER: CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
Exemplar Essay: Thesis, body and conclusion
Demonstrates OCR success criteria for a top-level answer.
INCLUDES REFERENCE TO SCHOLARS:
Aquinas, Paley, Tenant, Hawking, Hume, Ockham, Ayer, Flew
SOURCES OF WISDOM:
Bible
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION OCR A LEVEL. MODEL ANSWER: IT IS PROBLEMATIC TO ATTRIBUTE THE TRADITIONAL THEISTIC ATTRIBUTES TO GOD. EVALUATE
Exemplar Essay: Thesis, body and conclusion
Demonstrates OCR success criteria for a top-level answer.
INCLUDES REFERENCE TO SCHOLARS:
Aquinas, Descartes, Swinburne, Mackie and Augustine, Boethius, Plato, Aristotle
SOURCES OF WISDOM:
Bible
Nicene Creed
Torah
QUALITY & SANCTITY OF LIFE. AQA RELIGION & LIFE. FUN & ENGAGING. VARIETY OF TASKS, MULTI-MEDIA AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. FULL LESSON INCLUDING MODEL ANSWER FOR 12 MK EXAM QUESTION.
Challenging, mastery & exam skills focused.
Resource light and easy to follow so suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING:
AQA RS: Religion and Life
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (with references to source of authority):
Evaluate which is most important sanctity or quality of life. With reference to religious and secular sources of authority. 12 mks
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
ABORTION & THE LAW. AQA RELIGION & LIFE. FUN & ENGAGING. VARIETY OF TASKS, MULTI-MEDIA, DEBATES & GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGING & ‘MASTERY’ FOCUSED.
Resource light and easy to follow so suitable for specialists and non-specialists.
Extra challenges throughout.
SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING:
AQA RS: Religion and Life
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (with references to source of authority):
Explain the UK law on abortion including the 5 conditions for abortion
Explain why in some country’s abortion is still illegal
Explain secular arguments for making abortion legal
Evaluate the claim that ‘Abortion should be legal worldwide to prevent back street abortions?’
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome
SIKHISM INTRO FOR KS3. FUN AND ENGAGING LESSON. VARIETY OF TASKS, MULTI-MEDIA AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGING, MASTERY AND EXAM SKILLS FOCUSED. SUITABLE FOR SPECIALISTS AND NON-SPECIALISTS.
• Emphasis on exam skills: Modelling, Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
• Minimal printing, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO GURU GRANTH SAHIB):
Explain Sikh beliefs about God
Explain how these beliefs influence the lives of Sikhs today
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
OMNISCIENCE AND TIME. ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. OCR A2 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. FUN AND ENGAGING LESSON. VARIETY OF TASKS, MULTI-MEDIA AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGING AND MASTERY FOCUSED.
• This lesson is aimed to offer clarity on a complex topic
• Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
• Minimal printing, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY):
Explain how attributing omniscience to God puts limits on human free will
Explain and evaluate Schleiermacher’s solution to the problem of free will
With reference to key scholars and Biblical sources of wisdom: Explain two senses in which God’s relationship with time can be understood and give strengths and weakness of these views.
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
DALY EVALUATION. GENDER AND THEOLOGY. OCR A2 DCT. 100 MINUTES. FUN AND ENGAGING MULTI-MEDIA LESSON WITH A VARIETY OF TASKS AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGE AND MASTERY FOCUSED.
• Aimed to offer clarity on a complex topic
• Customisable recap ‘do now’ task
• Emphasis on Exam Skills: A02
• Synoptic links
• Scholar quotes
• Sources of Wisdom
• Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
• Minimal printing, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Information provided (not dependent on a textbook)
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
Break down Mary Daly’s argument into claims and evaluate these with reference to key scholars, synoptic links, and sources of wisdom
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
TEN OBLIGATARY ACTS SHIA ISLAM. GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES. 100 MINUTES. FUN AND ENGAGING MULTI-MEDIA LESSON WITH A VARIETY OF TASKS AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGE AND MASTERY FOCUSED. AIMED TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING WITHOUT COGNITIVE OVERLOAD.
• Aimed to offer clarity on a complex topic and reduce cognitive overload
• Builds on Prior knowledge of Five Pillars
• Checking Whole Class understanding throughout
• Customisable recap ‘do now’ task
• Emphasis on Exam Skills
• Sources of Wisdom
• Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
• Minimal printing, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
• Information provided (not dependent on a textbook)
• Memory tricks for memorising difficult vocabulary
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
Explain each of the Ten Obligations with reference to Sources of Authority
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.
SOUL CHRISTIANITY. 100 MINUTE LESSON. FUN AND ENGAGING WITH A VARIETY OF TASKS AND GAMES TO STIMULATE LEARNING. CHALLENGE AND MASTERY FOCUSED.
Information sheet
Customisable recap starter
Emphasis on Exam Skills
Sources of Wisdom
Assessment and extra challenges throughout.
Minimal printing, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically
**STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: **
Use sophisticated vocabulary to define the term ‘soul’
Explain Christian beliefs about the soul
To evaluate whether there is any such thing as a soul
I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.