This download contains an editable 50+ slide PowerPoint featuring the most important debates relevant to Media Studies classrooms: pitched at KS4/GCSE level. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide so that debate topics can be selected randomly. Debates take an ‘agree or disagree’ format: students are asked to move from one side of the room to the other depending on their response to the statements that appear. All topics are inspired from AQA GCSE specification though this product is relevant to all teachers of the subject. This format allows teachers to foster debates and discussions between students, it can be helpful to ask students to justify their reasons and use sensible arguments. Questions you might ask include: “What is wrong with the other position in your view?”, “Why did you choose to stand where you’re standing?”, “Why do you think people disagree so much about this question?” It is best to encourage students to pick a side rather than float in the middle: but it can also be fun to allow students to change side as the debate progresses, so that students can try to persuade one another to move. This is a great resource to use at the end of lessons if you have a few minutes left, it can be used as an entire lesson or revision session. Check-out some of my most popular resources: .    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.

This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new WJEC/EDUQAS Sociology GCSE specification (9-1). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle. This is lesson 19 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section. The lesson focuses on media representations of crime; specifically it addressed how the media misrepresents crime, how news-values distort the perception of crime, how perpetrators and victims are treated differently by the media depending on ethnicity, and the media-fueling of moral and criminal panics. The download includes: -A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf) -A premium quality, editable, and fully-animated PowerPoint presentation that covers the entire lesson -Homework These lessons are designed around the new EDUQAS / WJEC specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons. AQA equivalents are available on TES.

Essential for any KS4/5 Sociology teachers! Generate debates instantly, never waste a minute of class-time! This is a 202 slide PPT, containing 200 Sociological debates, discussions, and dilemmas. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide: when clicked a random sociological debate is presented to the group. Uses: -GCSE/AS/A2 Sociology Classes -P4C (Philosophy for kids) -Form time activities -Sociology/Citizenship/History/Politics/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.

Professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192) taught from September 2017. It can be purchased as a part of a complete 20 x lesson bundle. This is lesson 9 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Education’ section. The lesson is one of a trilogy of lessons within the course where students investigate sociological factors that influence educational outcomes and attainment. This lesson looks at the influence of ethnicity on educational attainment . It includes numeracy, graph-reading and statistics games. The download features a .zip file which includes: -A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf) -A premium quality PPT presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson -A double-sided A4 Information/Worksheet -Detailed knowledge hunt file -A3 Group-work activity sheets -Homework All lessons are designed around the new GCSE specification, certainly useful for any GCSE specification however. We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.

The topic of this revision session is: ‘The news media and their significance for an understanding of the role of the media in contemporary society’. It is 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 [which are a great way to structure group discussions and practice exam planning technique]. 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