New and updated for 2019-2020:
Fully resourced unit of work, 10 lessons with PPTs, model answers and revision resources including a knowledge organiser.
Please note that some activities do require use of the AQA text book, Year 1 RE AS Level (new spec), but could be adapted for other specs.
Powerpoints, resources and homework for the AQA Ethics unit comparing Kantian and Bentham's Ethics - includes group consolidation tasks such as debates and essay plans.
7 lesson series for AQA A level/AS Year 1 content for the Philosophy Unit - Verifying Religious Experiences & The Challenges of Verifying Religious Experiences.
Includes all lesson powerpoints and resources, although please note some tasks are designed to be used in conjunction with the AQA text book.
New and updated for 2019-2020
2 lessons on one powerpoint, focusing on socially engaged Buddhism and how the work of socially engaged Buddhism can be examined in an exam context, and comparison between the ideas of Batchelor (that Buddhism is not a religion) and Brazier (that Buddhism is a religion) with wider reading and exam context. There is also a Knowledge Organiser for the whole AQA unit on Secularisation.
With thanks to other TES authors whose ideas helped with this.
Everything students need to known for AQA RE A Level Virtue Ethics in a handy double page spread. All A01 and A02 content is covered, with practise questions based on AQA assessment resources.
A lesson that utilises a specially-created revision booklet for AQA RE A Level - 2A dialogues, including essay plans and structures to help students engage with the content.
Teachings on -
ultimate reality
self, death and afterlife
sources of wisdom and authority
Analysis questions:
How far the belief is reasonable – that is based on reason and/or consistent with reason.
How meaningful the statements of faith are, and for whom.
How coherent the beliefs are, and how consistent with other beliefs within the belief system.
6 lesson series for AQA A level/AS Year 2 content for the Philosophy Unit - Self, Death & the Afterlife.
Includes all lesson powerpoints and resources, although please note some tasks are designed to be used in conjunction with the AQA text book.
New and updated for 2019-2020
Also includes a dialogues lesson with Buddhism.
Ready to teach for 24/25 - we use blank books and write on the writing frame document.
12 lessons including assessment and green pen. Knowledge organiser for revision, readings and powerpoints. This has been really well received by my Y10s this year, and was taught 2 lessons per fortnight over a full term.
A 5 lesson series including all powerpoints, to be be used in cojunction with the AQA text book.
Also includes 3 supplementary lessons that were taught as an intro drop down day and a lesson for dialogues with Buddhism (RE 2A content with AQA).
Written for AQA spec but can be adapted to suit other specs.
6 lesson series plus assessment lesson with markscheme and model answers.
This series can be adapted for other exam boards, but does draw upon content from the AQA A Level text book.
All resources included.
A 14 lesson series taught over 2 consecutive 85 minute lessons per week. Resources include powerpoints, revision materials and model answers.
These lessons were taught in conjunction with the new AQA Year 2 A Level text book, so a copy of this is essential.
A bundle of power points, worksheets and revision resources to prepare students for the conscience section of AQA new spec RE A Level (Ethics Paper 1).
Please be aware that 1 optional activity requires the use of the AQA new text book but the rest are fully resourced.
New and updated for 2019-2020 - A 12 lesson series to be used in conjunction with the new AQA text book. Includes power points, worksheets and lesson resources, as well as planned homeworks and revision resources. This was taught over 2 85 minute lessons per week and covers the information from the AQA spec specifically, but could be adapted to other specs.
Includes assessment lesson and feedback lesson.
Everything students need to known for AQA RE A Bentham and Kant unit in a handy double page spread. All A01 and A02 content is covered, with practise questions based on AQA assessment resources.
A ready to talk through lesson outlining key questions that can be considered when applying Natural Moral Law, Situation Ethics and Virtue Ethics to issues of human and animal life and death, as outlined on the AQA Spec for RE, unit 1 Philo and Ethics. includes an explanation of all the ethical issues and direct revision ideas for each.
A set of resourced lessons for AQA RE Year 1 content: Philosophy - Evil and Suffering. Covers all theodicies and contains revision resources.
Please note that these resources do require use of the new AQA A Level Year 1 text book.
Everything students need to know for all ethics content for the new AQA A Level for RE - i print these as a handy stapled booklet in A4, for students to use as a basis for revision and check their work. Each KO contains practise questions for students to complete once they have revised the topic.
Topics covered:
Natural Moral Law & application to human and animal life and death.
Situation Ethics & application to human and animal life and death.
Virtue Ethics & application to human and animal life and death,
Bentham and Kant
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Everything students need to know for AQA Philosophy of Religion: self, death and the afterlife. A01 and A02 content covered in handy double page spread, with practise questions based on the assessment resources from AQA.
Updated for 2019-2020:
10 Lesson Series to be used in conjunction with the new AQA AS text book.
These lessons were taught twice per week and lessons were 85 minutes.
Resources include power points, worksheets, planned homeworks and resources such as card sorts and a knowledge organiser.
Could be adapted for other specs.
Aristotle's Virtues and Vices explained with a description of the characteristic, to help students understand the nature of the virtues and vices in modern, clear language.
For the A level study of character based/Virtue Ethics.