**OCR Sociology A Level
Exam Revision Questions **
Set of example questions students can use for targeted revision.
The questions include a breakdown of question type and AO spread for each section of the exam paper.
These are designed for students to engage in targeted revision in order to practice the exam style questions. You could also use them to build assessments in the run up to the exams.
Please note, these are not OCR questions, these are questions I have devised that follow the exam style of questioning, but also enable students to target a range of possibilities in question wording for exam practice.
There are a range of questions for:
Paper 1 Section A (Socialisation, Culture, Identity)
Paper 1 Section B (Youth Subculture)
Paper 2 Section B (Social Inequality)
Paper 3 Section A (Globalisation and Digital Media)
Paper 3 Section B (Crime and Deviance)
I have not included Paper 2 Section A Research Methods in Context as these are based on source materials, and I tend to use studies I have used from across the social inequality topic to tackle those questions and extend understanding, so I don’t have questions for that section in this pack.
Full teaching resource for the OCR A Level Sociology (new specification) topic of GLOBALISATION and the DIGITAL WORLD.
This pack contains the full teaching and student resources for this topic:
Teacher booklet
Student booklet
PPTs
Activities
Assessment guidance for 9, 10 and 16 mark questions
You would also need the ‘Why we Post’ pack from UCL as I can’t upload this with the pack.
Measuring Crime
A Level OCR Sociology: Crime and Deviance
This resource can be used for classroom teaching or for a flipped learning independent learning module with the accompanying pre-recorded lesson videos that can be found on YouTube.
This pack contains:
1x student workbook
4x video lessons (available on ‘SocialScience911’ on You Tube)
This is designed for the OCR specification, but much of the content is transferable to AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance as well.
Please note: the full OCR teacher resource pack that contains all resources for the Crime and Deviance topic includes this booklet, there is no need to also download this booklet.
AQA SOCIOLOGY DEBATES: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND METHODS
This pack is designed for approximately three lessons to cover the debates content about theory and methods.
The relationship between theoretical perspective and preference for particular research methods and sources of data. e.g. Positivism and quantitative data Interpretivism and qualitative data
The powerpoint contains the links to the student booklets and gapped areas for them to complete from the presentation as you work through the lessons. The teacher booklet has the answers and relevant links back to the ppt.
The booklets and powerpoint usually take me three lessons, allowing time during these for students to recap on the pieces of research evidence they have covered in their topic areas to add them to their notes or an A3 mind map as examples of how and where the main ideas (positivism, interpretivism, micro, macro, pardigms and theoretical issues) may have influenced the research undertaken across sociology.
This packs contains:
1 x power point
1 x teacher booklet with answers
1 x student work booklet
Full teaching resource pack for the OCR A Level Sociology (new) specification topic of RESEARCH METHODS.
Includes all the resources and activities needed to deliver the entire topic, including a range of assessments.
The pack contains:
Teacher booklet
Student booklet
All PPTs
Marking grids for 4, 6, 10 and 25 mark methods questions
This could be used for AQA A Level Sociology, and also adapted ‘down’ for GCSE Sociology (AQA or OCR).
*I cannot include the information sheets that are referred to in the booklet as these are paid Sociology Factsheet resources from elsewhere, however any textbook can be used in place of these for the activities as they are a consolidation/recap task embedded in the learning.
Full teaching resource pack for the OCR A Level (new) specification topic of SOCIALISATION, CULTURE AND IDENTITY. Includes all the resources and activities needed to deliver the entire topic, including a range of assessments. The pack contains:
Teacher booklets
Student booklets
All PPTs
All activities
Assessments
Full teaching resource pack for the OCR A Level Sociology (new) specification topic of CRIME AND DEVIANCE.
This includes all the resources and activities needed to deliver the entire crime and deviance topic, including assessment grids for each of the question types.
The pack contains:
Teacher booklets x 5
Introduction, Theory, Measuring crime, Crime Distribution and controlling crime.
Student booklets x 5
Introduction, Theory, Measuring crime, Crime Distribution and controlling crime.
All PPTs x 17
Topic by topic PPTs corresponding to the student and teacher booklets, plus assessment guidance PPTs to help with the question types for this topic.
All activities
Where activities and handouts are required
Assessment grids
Standard assessment grids for the 10, 20, 40 mark questions to reduce marking time and enable consistency in marking and student assessment for learning. There are example questions built into the student booklets as well
The content can be easily adapted for AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance, and could also be easily adapted for GCSE Sociology Crime and Deviance topics as well.
Full teaching resource pack for the OCR A Level (new) specification topic of SOCIAL INEQUALITY.
Includes all the resources and activities needed to deliver the entire topic, including a range of assessments.
The pack contains:
Teacher booklet
Student booklet
All PPTs
All activities
Assessments
This is designed for OCR A Level SOCIAL INEQUALITY, but you could adapt sections of this for AQA GCSE Stratification.
Full teaching pack of resources for the full unit of AQA A Level (new spec) Sociology FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS. This includes all teaching materials, activities and resources; including;
Teacher booklets
Student booklets
All PPTs
All activities
All homework tasks
Research Methods in Social Psychology
A Level and iAL Psychology with a focus on Pearson Edexcel
This is a lesson pack that covers the core methods in Social Psychology of Self report data (Interviews and Questionnaires), Thematic Analysis, Sampling Techniques.
The resources can be delivered in the classroom, or there are also online recorded lessons to accompany this pack if you wish to set this as homework or independent learning or flipped learning activity.
This pack contains:
1 x PPT for teacher delivery
1 x Student workbook consisting of 40 pages (including some maths practice)
2 x Activity answer sheets
2 x recorded lessons for flipped learning on YouTube
The recorded lessons can be found on ‘SocialScience911’ on you tube.
Biological Psychology Research Methods
Correlation & Brain Scanning
A Level and iAL Psychology with a focus on Pearson Edexcel
This is a lesson pack that covers the core methods in Biological Psychology of Brain Scanning Techniques and Correlational Research.
The resources can be delivered in the classroom, or there are also online recorded lessons to accompany this pack if you wish to set this as homework or independent learning or flipped learning activity.
This pack contains:
1 x PPT for teacher delivery
1 x Student workbook consisting of 28 pages (including some maths practice)
3 x Activity answer sheets
2 x Recorded lessons for flipped learning on YouTube
The recorded lessons can be found on ‘SocialScience911’ on you tube
Teacher and/or student booklet for the topic of RESEARCH METHODS in AQA GCSE 9-1 Sociology. This can be given to students as it stands, or adapted for activities or lessons. Included is:
Teacher/student booklet
*There are some pages with headings where students make summary notes, I use sociology factsheets for these activities which I cannot attach as they are paid for resources, but students can also do independent research to find out about the key concepts or use textbooks for the same purpose.
**Criminal Psychology **
PEARSON EDEXCEL A Level Psychology
This is a fully resourced teacher topic pack for the 9PS0/02 Option topic of criminal psychology.
The full pack contains:
TEACHER master booklet with all the information needed, answers to activities and information to match to the student workbook. This is a fully editable 105-page word document.
STUDENT workbook follows alongside the teacher booklet and accompanying powerpoints and activities match the student workbooks. This is a fully editable 118-page word document.
POWERPOINTS to deliver lessons that run in order of the student and teacher booklet with actvities and tasks. There are 12 powerpoints for the topic, each picks up on a new section of the content.
ACTIVITIES to utilise in lessons that are prompted in the powerpoints and student/teacher booklets.
SCHEME OF WORK for the topic and related content.
*The selected studies in this pack are:
Classic study: Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of auto mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory
Contemporary Study & Anger Management Study: Howells et al. (2005) Brief anger management programs with offenders: Outcomes and predictors of change.
Biological Treatment Study: Maletzky et al. (2006) A study on the effectiveness of hormone treatment for offenders
The Key Question in this pack is : “Is eyewitness testimony reliable?”*
If you are switching specification, or are just changing option topics, this pack is a full, off-the-shelf and ready to go teaching pack. From this you can teach as it stands or adapt to your own student needs, make further handouts and update or change the PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures.
Introducing Crime & Deviance
A Level Sociology
This introduction pack covers the core concepts of deviance, crime, the relativity of these, formal and informal social control and ways of explaining crime.
It is designed as a stand alone lesson for teacher delivery, or as flipped learning where students can be given the booklet and accompanying PPTs and directed to three introductory lessons that are pre-recorded and available on YouTube to go with this resource pack.
Includes:
1 x student booklet
2 x teacher PPTs (Student flipped learning PPTs)
1 x student activity
3 x recorded lesson videos (via YouTube ‘SocialScience911’)
Please note: the full teaching resource pack for the whole OCR A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance topic already includes these resources. There is also similar introductory resources in the AQA Sociology Crime and Deviance teacher resource pack that you could use with the YouTube lessons.
This is a student guidance booklet for undertaking an independent RESEARCH PROJECT into SOCIAL INEQUALITY for the OCR A Level Sociology (new specification) topic of RESEARCH METHODS & SOCIAL INEQUALITY.
It is designed to be given to students after having taught research methods and social inequality content, they can then undertake their own mini-research project to fully apply their understanding of methods in the context of social inequality. The student booklet outlines the steps they should take and points to consider for using a secondary data, questionnaires and interviews, and the analysis, write-up, presentation and evaluation of their own project.
Student could pick their own topic, I have a list of key areas that I tend to give to the students, for example age and poverty, gender and employment, ethnicity and education and so on, which guides them to a more narrowed down focus. Students can work in pairs and present their findings to the class which also adds to the overall class knowledge and understanding of specific inequalities.
Included in this pack:
Student/Staff booklet
*This could be easily adapted to meet the requirements of AQA Sociology for students to research an education topic for their methods in context skills.
*You could also adapt this for practicals in Psychology as A Level or GCSE, you would need to change a couple of the evaluation guidance points to cover GRAVEDS for Psychology, and if used for Pearson Edexcel A Level, then it’d need changes to specific methods as per the requirements of the specification for each topic; for example questionnaires for Social, experiments for Cognitive etc.
Full set of teaching materials and all resources needed to deliver the OCR A Level Sociology (new) specification topic of YOUTH SUBCULTURE. The pack includes everything you need for teaching the full unit, including some assessments. This contains;
Teacher booklets
Student booklets
All PPTs
All activities
Range of Assessments
This packs contains assessments for the OCR A Level Sociology (new specification) Youth subculture topic (Paper 1, Option B).
**If you are purchasing the full set of teacher resources these are included, you do not need to download this set separately.
In this pack there are:
6x student assessments
3x assessment skills PPTs
This pack contains a full set of lessons for the topic of MENTAL HEALTH.
They have been designed for Year 10 but are also appropriate for Year 9 or Year 11.
The lessons are designed for 3 x one-hour sessions but could be broken down into shorter sessions for form time activities, or delivered in one session during a curriculum enrichment week.
The pack contains:
Scheme of work
Student activities
Teacher resources
PPTs
*Information sheets about the mental health disorders need to be downloaded from Mind to accompany the last lesson activity, these are freely available.
Lesson PPT resource that was used to introduce the topic of SCIENCE as a BELIEF SYSTEM in AQA A Level Sociology BELIEFS option topic. This covers around 3 x one hour lessons (depending what activities you build in).
This contains:
PPT
STAYING MENTALLY HEALTHY
PSHCE or form time activity based on ways to support mental health and wellbeing for students.
A powerpoint with a short set of ideas and an activity for mental wellbeing that can be covered in a form time slot of about 20 minutes, or on a health and wellbeing PSHCE drop down day as an hours lesson*.
This could also be used as a daily wellbeing starter in form, using one of the suggested ideas each day for a wellbeing week.
for a lesson of an hour you would need to download and print some anti-anxiety colouring pages which are free online, but I don’t have any that I have made so cannot add any to the listing here