Religion, Philosophy, Sociology & Ethics Resource Base
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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Psychology to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
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Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
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GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
A professionally designed Christmas quiz for Science teachers to use with their 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 Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “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.
The resource is fully editable.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
This download includes three A4 worksheets: each one containing a crossword puzzle and clues. Answers are also provided.
The worksheets look really nice: please ignore the terrible preview the Tes-website generates! The cover picture for this item illustrates the three worksheets as they should look! :)
The worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for KS2-4
It is ideal for:
-Tutor time / Form groups
-End of lesson fun
-A component of a Christmas lesson
Merry Christmas! <3
Check out my shop to browse more of my products! :)
This bundle contains a Christmas quiz for RE teachers* and a selection of seven Christmassy video-worksheets that can be used with any video (or series of videos) to enhance learning and foster engagement.
*We’ve also included our previous version of the quiz for free, just in case you prefer it!
Together they comprise an easy and fun Christmas lesson (you might wish to shorten the quiz if you wish to do this).
They can also be used individually to constitute multiple Christmas lessons. I am confident you will find the video-learning worksheets especially versatile and useful throughout the month building up to the Christmas break.
The resources are suitable for any age group: the quiz can be differentiated easily by changing team sizes.
Please see individual items for more details.
Merry Christmas and thank you for checking-out my resources! :)
Click here to browse more Christmas teaching resource packs on Tes!
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Science to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This download contains an editable 50+ slide PowerPoint featuring the most important debates relevant to KS3 Science students. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide so that debate topics can be selected randomly.
Debate topics refer to the KS3 national curriculum as much as possible, as well as more general ones with about relevant P4C and ‘Philosophy of Science’ issues.
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.
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:
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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
A professionally designed Christmas quiz for Physics teachers to use with their 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 Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “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.
The resource is fully editable.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Religious Studies to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
[it also includes an older version of the RE Christmas Quiz, for free, in case you prefer it]
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Classical Civilisation to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of English Language and Literacy leaders to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
.Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Geography to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Business Studies to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a Christmas Quiz, Christmas Crosswords (x3), a debate generator and a selection of P4C (Philosophy for Children) tools.
These resources should be sufficient for a number of fun KS3 and KS4 Christmassy lessons and serve as an opportunity to bring P4C (Philosophy for Children) into your classroom.
Buying items in this bundle will save at least 50% when compared to the total of their individual values!
Please see individual items for more details.
I hope you enjoy your oncoming holiday and thank you for checking-out my resources! :)
Click here to browse more Christmas teaching resource packs on Tes!
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Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle includes a professionally designed Christmas quiz tailor-made for teachers of Computer Science to use with their students. It includes a PowerPoint Quiz with 60 well-presented questions and three A4 Christmas crossword worksheets! Answer sheets are provided.
In the quiz, fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject-specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The bundle also includes a set of three A4 Christmas Crosswords (with answers).
The crossword worksheets are Christmas themed, all of the clues/answers are Christmas related. These are ‘Christmas Trivia’ crosswords dealing with Christmas-related general knowledge: they are, therefore, suitable for teachers/students of any subject.
This product is suitable for any age-group: differentiation should be achieved by changing team sizes.
The resource is fully editable.
Merry Christmas! <3
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle contains a Christmas quiz for Spanish teachers and a selection of seven Christmassy video-worksheets that can be used with any video (or series of videos) to enhance learning and foster engagement.
Together they comprise an easy and fun Christmas lesson (you might wish to shorten the quiz if you wish to do this).
They can also be used individually to constitute multiple Christmas lessons. I am confident you will find the video-learning worksheets especially versatile and useful throughout the month building up to the Christmas break.
The resources are suitable for any age group: the quiz can be differentiated easily by changing team sizes. Please note that the Spanish Christmas Quiz is written in English: it refers in part to Spanish culture and how Christmas is celebrated in Spain.
Please see individual items for more details.
Merry Christmas and thank you for checking-out my resources! :)
Click here to browse more Christmas teaching resource packs on Tes!
.
Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
A large collection of Christmas themed DIRT Worksheets (Dedicated Improvement & Reflection Time)
Due to the success of our A3 DIRT Worksheet, which has had hundreds of downloads and received 100% 5* reviews: we’ve released a special Christmas edition one! The downloads are suitable for students aged 11-18.
This bundle contains:
The Original DIRT Worksheet (with PPT) (A3)
The Christmas Edition DIRT Worksheet (A3)
3 xl Christmas DIRT Worksheets (A4)
3 x Christmas Video-Learning Worksheets (A4)
4 x Christmas VIdeo-Learning Worksheets (A3)
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Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This bundle contains our video-worksheet pack (x10 worksheets) and 2 other resources.
Buying these resources together saves you a lot of money!
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Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES!
GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
.
.
GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
This download includes five A3 and five A4 worksheets for science teachers to use alongside videos/documentaries. They are essential tools for teachers of any science subject and can be used with students in KS3-5.
The worksheets allow you to enhance the learning value of videos and documentaries that you show to students. Simply choose one of the ten designs and play them a relevant series of short videos or a longer documentary: the worksheets will structure their learning and increase student productivity.
This download includes ten worksheets: five are A3 and five are A4, all work-sheets are double-sided and are designed to be printed in colour (though I’m sure black and white printing is also an option).
This download does not include either videos or links to videos: you pick them, let the worksheets do the rest!
Check-out some of my most popular resources:
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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
This multi-use interactive philosophy lesson explores ‘Philosophy of Science’: the branch of philosophy that’s concerned with the nature, foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose of science.
This session is ideal for teachers who want to explore philosophy of science with students aged 8-16; we’ve carefully selected the most significant issues and questions relating to philosophy of science so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature of science
The ways in which scientists pursue knowledge
Strengths and weaknesses of the scientific method
The nature of pseudoscience and how to identify it
It outlines and explores different concepts from philosophers of science including empiricism and naturalism as well as the views of Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Duhem, Feyerabend and Cartwright (in the advanced reading section).
The big question asked in this session is “To what extent is science the most valid way to gain knowledge?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as
What is science?
What is the difference between ‘scientific knowledge claims’ and other types of knowledge claim?
How can we tell the difference between pseudoscience and actual science?
To what extent is the materialist view (that only physical matter exists) accurate?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the scientific method of pursuing knowledge?
This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment and end-of-lesson reflection activities. With a massive selection of activities designed to trigger philosophical discussions, debates and reflections: you can re-use the resource numerous times with the same group.
This resource is especially suitable for teachers of science who are looking to explore the nature of science and the scientific method more deeply with students and bring philosophy, philosophical thinking and critical thinking into their science lessons.
The file is a PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required, just run the file and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session very easy! This resource is suitable for students aged 8-16; due to the flexible nature of the sessions design it can be used for multiple hour-long sessions or as a short stimulating tutor-group activity.
Explore ethical issues relating to scientific research and advancement with this philosophy teaching resource for students aged 8-16!
This multi-use interactive philosophy lesson is ideal for teachers who want to explore ethical issues relating to science with students aged 8-16; we’ve carefully selected the most significant moral issues and questions relating to philosophy of science so that young learners can engage in interesting philosophical discussions and engaging moral debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature of ethical vs unethical scientific research
The ethical duties of scientists
Rules that ensure scientific research is ethical
The use of animals in scientific research
Moral issues raised by new scientific advancements (e.g., nuclear weapons, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence)
One of the overarching issues explored in this session is the degree to which scientists are responsible for the ways in which their research is used and the technologies that research can give rise to.
The big question asked in this session is “What ethical rules should scientists adhere to in the pursuit of knowledge?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
What kinds of ethical considerations should all scientists keep in mind when conducting research?
What ethical rules should all scientists stick to when conducting research?
Are there some things that are fundamentally unethical to research in the first place?
To what extent is it ethical for a scientist to help develop new drone weaponry?
Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical and moral claims such as:
“Sometimes it’s okay to use animals in scientific experiments”
“It’s always okay to experiment on humans if they give consent”
“Some scientific advancements have done more harm than good”
“Scientists should have refused to help develop nuclear weapons” and
“Sometimes it’s okay for scientists to distort data if it leads to a greater good”