This lesson covers the Buddha’s enlightenment and the defeat of Mara. The starter is a recall task based on the prior two lessons and is designed to be printed on A4, but can easily be adapted if this is being used as a standalone lesson. The rest of the lesson includes reading, challenging difficult literacy and interpreting the vivid Buddhism imagery into individual A3 story boards (all files included).

This is a lesson on Islamic festivals which follows the AQA spec. It includes information, news report video, questioning, exam practice and challenge activities.

This is a lesson on Islamic beliefs - Angels (1.4) which follows the AQA spec. This includes information, questioning and a practice 12-marker. It then requires self-assessment using the mark-scheme so that students can get an idea on what is being looked at by an examiner, I cannot upload the mark-scheme as it is the AQA official one, but it is easily found on their website.

This is a lesson on Islamic practices - Jihad, which follows the AQA spec. It includes information, questioning, newspaper headlines, exam practice and challenge questions.

This is a lesson about Ibrahim and his role within Islam. It follows the AQA spec and includes information, links, questioning and a video with supporting A3 printout for the completion of a 9-part flow chart about Ibrahim.

This is a GCSE lesson for Religious studies Islamic beliefs ‘Prophethood and Adam’ (1.7) - AQA. This follows the spec with information, questionning, activities, sources of wisdom analysis and challenge question opportunities.

This is a lesson on Islamic beliefs about predestination (1.5), which follows the AQA exam spec. It includes information, questioning, links, denominational differences, sources of wisdom analysis and challenge activities.

This is a lesson about Islamic beliefs regarding life after death (1.6), following the AQA Spec. Including information, questioning and sacred writing analysis.

This lesson focuses on abortion and medical ethics. Covering Pro life and Pro choice views, including Roman Catholic. This leads to looking at the over turning of Wade vs Roe with two emotional case studies of women who have suffered since state laws have changed.

This is the fifth lesson in a unit (but can be used as a standalone - adapted minimally where necessary) based on Hindu festivals. Key focus is Diwali and Raksha Bandhan.

The second lesson in a unit (can also be used as a standalone) focused on Hindu gods and goddesses. Looks at the development from polytheism to monotheism for most modern Hindus.

This is a lesson in a unit sequence, but can be used as a standalone lesson. It is about what determines a persons quality of life, looking at the different factors and whether it is subjective or objective. The key focus is dementia and doll therapy with a small mention of voluntary euthanasia (which can be linked to the following lesson in the unit if you are using the whole unit).

This is the sixth lesson in a unit, ideally suited to being used in conjunction with the previous 5 lessons. It has a series of revision activities to help recall previous information and work towards further recall development.

A lesson focussed on introducing some key concepts to Hinduism for KS3.

This lesson focuses on euthanasia and the ethics of whether or not it should be legal. This also looks at the careers that would have to adapt or change their ethics based on if this law changed in the UK. This also considers Christians and the sanctity of life (specifically Christian doctors). It is lesson 4 of a unit, but could also be used as a standalone lesson.

This lesson is the final lesson of the unit, but can be used as a standalone lesson. The focus is capital punishment from a medical ethic perspective. Including a case study on Derek Bentley and the logistics in making it legal (professions that would have to agree to it) - Draws on Christian medical professionals and the sanctity of life.

This is the second lesson in a 6 lesson unit based on different medical ethical dilemmas, which are applied to everyday life, whilst incorporating religion, this lesson specifically applies the issue to Jehovah’s Witnesses’. This includes a printed reading, both a standard version, and a highlighted version to help EAL students depict the key sentences.

This is the introductory lesson for a unit on medical ethics for religious studies. This will be a 6 lesson unit looking at different medical ethical dilemmas (Blood/organ donation, euthanasia, quality of life, abortion and capital punishment).

This is a lesson based on some key thinkers in the religion vs science debate. The main focus is on two elements - religion and science are enemies, or, religion and science can work together and compliment one another. It uses Darwin and Behe and has a choice of two plenaries depending if you wished to do this over one or two lessons. If it was over two, there would be opportunity for an ending debate with teams to present against eachothers view.

This is the second lesson in a sequence of philosophy lessons for KS3 - specifically year 8 but can easily be used for year 9 with little adaption. This also works for a stand alone lesson which is not reliant on the sequence. I am currently working on this unit and it will soon be complete and all available as either singular lessons or as a unit bundle. This lesson focuses on Plato, his theory of Forms and the allegory of the cave.