Professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This is lesson number 1 of our 20 lesson course for this section- it is designed to introduce the requirements of the ‘Sociology of Family’ unit and its central debates. The download includes: -A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf) -6 x A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (.doc, editable) -An A4 student information sheet explaining the required learning for the unit (.doc, editable) -A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson -A homework task All lessons are designed around the new AQA specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.

A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Citizenship to use with KS3-5 students, featuring 60 well-presented questions, and an answer sheet. The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds. Fifty of the questions are all Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology of “fun facts”. Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5. Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.

This professional quality download includes a 30 Question Christmas Quiz for Sociology Teachers. -Every slide features fun and engaging animations -The quiz has 4 rounds: general quiz, odd one out, multiple choice, true/false -It is suitable for KS3-5 (differentiate by adjusting team size) -Some questions are subject specific, others are general quiz questions about Christmas I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a well-earned break! :D

Generate political debates instantly! This is a 200 slide PPT, containing 198 political debates, discussions, and dilemmas. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide: when clicked a random moral problem is presented to the group. Uses: -P4C (Philosophy for kids) -Form time activities -Citizenship/History/Politics/Sociology/R.S./Philosophy cover lessons -Debating societies -Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of three formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position. The formats are: -Agree or Disagree? -Which parallel dimension would you go to? -Which of the two laws would you put in place? This resource is great value at £4.99 and cannot be found elsewhere: -It clearly contributes to your school’s SMSC provision -Furthers students’ critical thinking skills -It allows for countless hours of discussion and debate to be structured in a focussed and engaging manner -It would take days to reproduce yourself -It can save vast amounts of staff time in preparing cover lessons -It is the perfect way to make the most of any time a teacher might have left at the end of a lesson -It deals with cross curricular issues Please note: this resource deals with controversial issues, debates and questions that may be deemed unsuitable for younger children. It is designed for secondary school students, but can be easily adapted to younger years with appropriate amendments by their teacher.

Designed for teachers using the new AQA Sociology specification at KS5. Save significant amounts of money by buying these revision sessions in bundles! This download contains one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification. It includes a fully animated revision session PowerPoint and a set of ‘silent debate’ A3 worksheets. The topic of this revision session is: ‘The socialisation process and the role of the agencies of socialisation’. This revision session features: -A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics) -A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper) -A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach] -Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric. -A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question. The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways: -As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams -Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning This session can be purchased individually or as part of various bundles depending on your needs. Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson. Copyright Adam Godwin (2017) [Godwin86] godwin86@gmail.com

The Philosophy Boxes Method is a new approach to P4C designed for students in KS1, 2 & 3: it is graphically stimulating, engaging, and fun. This download is also suitable for older students: but the format was designed with younger students in mind. The topic of this Philosophy Boxes download is “Multiculturalism & Celebrating Other Cultures”. The aim of Philosophy Boxes is to bring philosophy and critical thinking into every subject at every level: we believe that any subject becomes philosophy when students are asked the right questions and when they think about a topic hard enough and on the deepest (most fundamental) level. The Philosophy Boxes Method presents students with a set of ‘mystery boxes’, when a student selects one of the boxes they are presented with 1 of 21 discussion/debate activities [that use 1 of 8 different formats]. The presentation has integrated AfL so that teachers can test knowledge at any point in the lesson. There are 10 different AfL slides to choose from. The design is colourful, animated, fun and engaging: all activities require movement and teachers can decide whether students are expressing their ideas purely verbally or by using post-it notes. The nature of the design is that it can be used for short sessions (5-10 minutes) or much longer sessions (up to 2 hours!) - it allows for classroom practitioners to be flexible and adaptable. It can, therefore, be used in lessons or as a tutor-time activity. The download includes a PowerPoint Show; if you would like an editable PPT presentation so that you can make your own ‘Philosophy Boxes’ presentation you will need to download the template here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-the-philosophy-boxes-method-template-for-creating-your-own-philosophy-boxes-lessons-p4c-p4k-11463227 A complete selection of Philosophy Boxes lessons can be found here: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?&q=philosophy+boxes+godwin86 You can also save money by purchasing lessons as bundles.

This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Islam as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the fourth in our seven-lesson Islam unit for Theme E: Religion, Crime & Punishment, and compares Islamic & Christian views, teachings and beliefs about capital punishment & the death penalty It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Islam. The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework. This download includes: -A full lesson PowerPoint -A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It’s beautiful :) ] -A comprehensive knowledge hunt, comparing Islamic & Christian views -A detailed lesson plan -AfL tasks & homework The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable. We’ve made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Islam. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Islam) together to save money! Positive reviews are warmly welcome! The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017) Contents may differ slightly from those depicted on the cover photo, which are meant to be a fair illustration of the quality and activities contained in the download. System Requirements: Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word) Printing (for the worksheet) 512MB Ram 1.5GHZ Processor

This is a 200 slide PPT, containing 198 History related debates, discussions, and dilemmas. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide: when clicked a random history debate is presented to the group. Uses: -Effortless planning of History lessons -Form time activities -History/Philosophy/Citizenship/Politics cover lessons -Debating societies -History P4C (Philosophy for kids) cross-curricular resource -Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position. The formats are: -“Agree or disagree?” -“Which time-portal do you take?” (with animated portal graphics, great for engagement) -“Who do you save from the time travelling assassin?” (also very engaging and graphically impressive!) -“Which statement is more true?” There are roughly 50 of each slide. This resource is great value at £4.99 and cannot be found elsewhere: -It allows for countless hours of discussion and debate to be structured in a focussed and engaging manner. -It would take days to reproduce yourself. -It can save vast amounts of staff time in preparing cover lessons -It is the perfect way to make the most of any time a teacher might have left at the end of a lesson. -It clearly contributes to the Moral aspect of your school’s SMSC provision -It deals with cross curricular issues Please note: this resource deals with controversial issues, debates and questions that may be deemed unsuitable for younger children. It is designed for secondary school students, but can be easily adapted to younger years with appropriate amendments by their teacher.

This is the seventeenth in a series of lessons on Buddhism for GCSE level students for the ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’ section of the course [section A]. The complete series of GCSE Budhism lessons, as well as learning mats, PLCs and revision sessions can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86 The Download (comprising 4 files, within one zip file) includes: -A PPT Containing a Full Lesson -A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline -A double sided worksheet -A Knowledge-Hunt -A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: The origins, associated stories and customs of the following festivals: • Wesak or Hanamatrsui (Therevada/Mahayana) • Vassa/Rain Retreat (Therevada) • Uposatha Days (Therevada) • Parinirvana day (Mahayana) • Lama Tsong Khapa Day (Tibetan) • The importance of marking different parts of the Buddha’s life • The purpose of Vassa and its observance by lay Buddhists today • The purpose of Uposatha days • The purpose of festivals not connected to the Buddha directly, the popularity of these festivals and their place within Buddhism, including the Lama Tsong Khapa day • The influence of local culture on practices associated with Buddhist festivals • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Buddhist groups Thank you for your download! Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.

This product includes three double-sided, colour, A4 Worksheets for form-tutors to give to their students. They focus on three philosophical topics: metaphysics, ethics/morality, and epistemology: each worksheet contains a number of fun little activities to provoke thought, discussion, and debate. Each worksheet should keep students busy for 10-15 minutes. I advise giving them one each week over three weeks :) I hope you enjoy! Check-out some of my most popular resources: GCSE Religious Studies Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit) Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units) Christianity (Thematic Studies Units) Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit) Islam (Thematic Studies Units) .    GCSE Sociology Resources Complete Units (Whole Course) .  Philosophy for Children (P4C) The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack The Debating Society Toolkit Philosophy Boxes . Other Tools A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!) KS3 RE Units

These resources were designed for KS3 Philosophy & Religion, OCB B GCSE Religious Studies and AQA Philosophy. All templates are easily adaptable to other subjects. They are designed for busy teachers to save time, assessment and target setting is stream-lined for maximum efficiency and relevance. Design is based on best-practice guidelines: -Tells students how to improve -Specify corrections and follow-up tasks -Based on exam mark-schemes and KS3 assessment criteria -Reflect on practice exam questions: analyse areas for improvement (KS4/5) -Easily allows for peer, self and teacher assessment -Includes a ‘presentation assessment sheet’ for students/classes who struggle with presentation. -Easily adapted for whole-school MAF policy. Most feedback sheets can be printed 4/A4 page making this a cost effective, quick, clear and engaging way to help students improve. Please see attached image for samples.