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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
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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!
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Hinduism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the second in our seven-lesson Hinduism unit for Theme E: ‘Religion, Crime & Punishment’ and focuses on Hindu views, teachings and beliefs about forgiveness and the forgiveness of criminals.
It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Hinduism.
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 set of A3 group-work debate worksheets
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet and A3 debate worksheets. 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 Hinduism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Hinduism) 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)
Make sure you download the 20 Lesson GCSE Hinduism Unit for ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’!
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Food & Nutrition 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 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.
An essential download for AS/A2-Level Sociology Teachers for the AQA specification.
These sheets make assessing practice exam questions and papers easy and streamlined.
Exam scoreboard for the 5 different paper structures are included, as well as feedback sheets for individual practice exam questions for:
-AS (20 Mark Answers)
-A2 (20 & 30 Mark Answers)
Feedback sheets include:
-Grade boundaries broken down into component features according tot he official mark-scheme
-Target setting tables
-Correction setting tables
-DIRT space for target-setting
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This is the eleventh in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course.
It is designed for AQA and OCR specifications but relevant to all GCSE Hinduism Religious Studies teachers .
The Download (comprising 2 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 Homework Task
This lesson focuses on:
-The Hindu concept of Avatars (Avataras)
-Rama & Krishna as Avatars of Vishnu
-Sectarian Differences in Beliefs about Avatars
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
We also have learning mats, revision sessions, and much more!
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This download contains a Personal Learning Checklist for the ‘Religion, Peace & Conflict’ [Theme D] section of the AQA GCSE Religious Studies course [Thematic Studies]. It includes four different formats.
The download includes 4 different versions of PLC for you to choose from! Each with slightly different reflection/target-setting activities. This means you can give students the PLC at different points in the year without it being too repetitive and boring for them.
These double-sided A4 worksheets are great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Improvement Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, manage revision and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
The first side is a checklist with two ways for the student to rate confidence for each of the sub-topics and the second side features other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheets:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A collection of displays and learning mats for RE, Ethics & Philosophy on the internet :)
Massive discount! Hope you enjoy! :)
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GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
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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)
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AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
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The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack
The Debating Society Toolkit
Philosophy Boxes
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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 8 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section; it refers to the ‘Factors Affecting Criminal & Deviant Behaviour’ topic.
The lesson focuses on links between criminality and ethnicity. It addresses the question: “Are the apparent differences in crime rates are caused by racial prejudice and discrimination in the police force and judiciary?”
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
-A double-sided A4 worksheet
-A 10 side knowledge-hunt
-Homework
These lessons are designed around the new EDUQAS / WJEC specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lesson
This thought-provoking philosophy teaching resource focuses on ethics and meta-ethics: instead of focusing on specific moral issues (which is covered in a different session on ‘Applied Ethics’ this re-usable lesson explores the fundamental nature of ethics, the difference between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, the function of moral language, different theories of normative ethics, different ways of thinking about how we ought to live, and deeper issues around the metaphysical status of good and evil.
This session is ideal for teachers who want to explore philosophy with students and is of particular value to teachers who want to nurture the moral development of their students (perhaps in an SMSC or PSHE context) and trigger deeper reflections on the fundamental nature of ‘right and wrong’; we’ve carefully selected the most significant issues and questions relating to normative ethics and meta-ethics so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The fundamental nature of good and evil
Different ways of evaluating the morality of actions
Virtue ethics and what it means ‘to be a good person’
Whether or not morality is absolute or relative (e.g. to different cultures and time-periods)
The degree to which moral judgements refer to objective facts
The degree to which moral judgements are baseless and arbitrary
The big question asked in this session is “What is the fundamental difference between good and evil acts?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
What makes it reasonable to call a specific action “good”?
Are there some actions that we can say are always evil in all situations, time periods and cultures?
What is the role of empathy in compassion in determining the most morally correct course of action in life? and
What is the most important virtue to cultivate in life?
Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical claims such as:
“Some actions are morally permissible even when they create suffering for others.”
“Some people are born evil” and
“It is impossible to truly know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.”
This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited.
Philosophers and sages have reflected on the nature and significance of death and mortality since ancient times whilst reflecting on the possibility of an afterlife in the face of the mystery of death. According to many philosophers and psychologists: a healthy appreciation of one’s own finitude is essential for living a full life and for striving to live without regrets.
Speaking about death and dying is a taboo in our society and yet by failing to speak openly about it we can often exacerbate the fear of death in young minds and feed their anxieties around death. This interactive philosophy lesson allows for open and reasonable discussions about death, mortality, and the possibility (or impossibility) of an afterlife.
This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited.
This session is ideal for teachers who want to explore these deep matters of life and death with students aged 8-16; we’ve carefully selected the most significant issues and questions relating to death and the afterlife so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature of the death
The benefits of contemplating one’s own mortality
Different views about the afterlife
Whether or believing in ghosts is justified
The value of funerals and honouring the dead
Existential psychology
Please be careful to time your use of this resource carefully and to deliver it with due sensitivity as some young people might struggle to wrestle with these issues. Please note: this resource discusses a variety of afterlife beliefs (i.e. the possibility of reincarnation, Heaven, Hell and nothingness) and, therefore, will probably involve the analysis and evaluation of religious beliefs.
The big question asked in this session is “What are the benefits of thinking deeply about our own mortality?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
Why do you think people are reluctant to talk about death and dying and that such topics are a taboo in our society?
To what extent can thinking about death help us to appreciate and value those around us more?
Many people have reported seeing ghosts: to what extent does this prove that ghosts exist?
The file is a non-editable 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!
The lesson introduces the new unit, providing an overview of the unit's required learning and the essential key-words. It is the first in a series of 10 lessons focusing on the Christian aspect of the thematic study. The lesson is largely structured around the included A3 worksheet but includes a hook, starter, plenary, AfL and discussion/debate activities.
This complete lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the ' Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice' theme (Theme F).
This download includes:
-An editable PowerPoint file
-A double-sided A3 worksheet (.doc)
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Religious Studies resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to contact me: godwin86@gmail.com - if you have any questions or requests.
PLEASE NOTE:
Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Islam as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the third in our seven-lesson Islam unit for Theme E: Religion, Crime & Punishment and focuses on Muslim views, teachings and beliefs about capital punishment and 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 student information A4 sheet (for use with aforementioned A3 worksheet)
-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)
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This revision tool can be used for an entire revision session or as a component of a revision session. It’s also useful to employ this resource at the end of lessons if you ever have a few minutes spare.
It is an editable 50+ slide PowerPoint featuring the most important debates relevant to Business Studies GCSE students (using the new AQA specification). 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 taken from the latest AQA Business Studies (8132) specification though this product is relevant to all teachers of the subject. A seperate debate generator has been created for the Economics (8136) specification: you can find it in our shop.
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.
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A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Chemistry 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 Easter quiz is professionally designed for Music teachers. It is suitable for students at KS4 (based around GCSE terminology) and KS3 [even KS5 really!] - easy differentiation can be achieved by changing team sizes.
It features 30 questions divided into five rounds. Half of the questions are subject specific, the other half refer to Easter trivia and Easter related general-knowledge.
All slides are fully animated to be engaging and fun: some of the questions are even asked by adorable animated rabbits!
The download includes the answer sheet and constitutes a zero-prep lesson; ideal for end of term classes and unwinding at the end of term!
We are aiming to produce the finest Easter quizzes available on TES: if you like this product and feel that it deserves one, leave a positive review and email us (godwin86@gmail.com) and we will email you a FREE RESOURCE*!
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This bundle contains 18 revision sessions. The content covered by the sessions is the complete KS5 'Philosophy of Religion' and 'Religion & Ethics' material for both AS and A2 level under the new OCR specification.
Bundles for specific religions you may be covering can be purchased separately. This download is relevant to all KS5 Religious Studies teachers using the OCR specification as it deals with the philosophy and ethics components of the course.
The sessions use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover the designated section of the specification.
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
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
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.
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.
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This resource is for Religious Studies teachers covering the religion of Christianity at GCSE level.
It is based on the OCR/AQA specifications 2016/7 onwards, all content is linked to the specification as it is designed as an exam preparation and revision tool.
The download includes:
-11 A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (for the Beliefs and Teachings section)
-11 A3 Silent Debate worksheets (for the Practices section)
-A Presentation file with: full instructions for revision sessions, two different approaches to using the worksheets (one silent, one discussion based), three plenary slides/activities to choose from, instructions for an optional exam question practice at the end.
This resource is:
-An easy and effective way to structure revision sessions
-Based around formulating arguments for and against given statements and is therefore perfect for practising analysis and evaluation
-Easily customisable and reusable (just change the statements you wish for students to discuss)
This is the fifth in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A].
It is designed around the OCR specification and is therefore suitable for teachers using the AQA specification (which is a less detailed equivalent to the OCR spec) and highly relevant to GCSE Religious Studies teachers regardless of the specification used.
The Download (comprising 5(+) files, within one zip file) includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline
-12 Page colour knowledge-hunt (place around the room)
-Images for poster design task (4 page word document)
-Background music (Aum Chants and Tibetan Singing Bowls) to play during the poster design task (SMSC)
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification:
Manifestations of the Divine
• Different ways of understanding Brahman, with attributes (Saguna Brahman) and without attributes (Nirguna Brahman)
• The connection between concepts of Brahman and Hindu practices, including Hindu deities as manifestations of Saguna Brahman
• The role and importance of the Trimurti and the Tridevi, including the concept of Shakti and the relationship between male and female deities
• The role and importance of Avatara as the incarnation or manifestation of deities in a particular physical form
• The role and importance of Murti as the focus of worship and as an expression of an actual presence
• The significance of Avatara in different Hindu traditions
• Common and divergent emphases placed on manifestations of the divine by different Hindu groups
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Smriti and shruti scriptures
• Stories of the gods acting within the world
• The avatars of Vishnu
• The Ramayana
• The Bhagavad Gita
• Jesus and the Buddha as avatars
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
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This fun philosophy lesson focuses on aesthetics, art and the nature of beauty. Aestheticians ask questions like “What is a work of art?”, “What makes a work of art successful?”, “Why do we find certain things beautiful?”, “How can things of very different categories be considered equally beautiful?”, “Is there a connection between art and morality?”, “Can art be a vehicle of truth?”, “Are aesthetic judgments objective statements or purely subjective expressions of personal attitudes?”, “Can aesthetic judgments be improved or trained?”
This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited.
This session is of particular interest to Art Teachers and teachers of subjects that have an aesthetic component (such as Design, Crafts, and Textiles); we’ve carefully selected the most significant philosophical issues wrestled with by aestheticians both ancient and modern so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature and value of art
Different ways of evaluating art
The nature of beauty and the degree to which it is “in the eye of the beholder”
Cultural and historical relativism in evaluating art and beauty
The impact of AI in the creation of art
The big question asked in this session is “Is beauty an objective fact or merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
What makes one object “art” and another object “not art”?
How should we measure the value of art?
Why do people create art?
What are the moral duties of an artist?
How can creating art benefit our community and society?
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.
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.
The file is a non-editable 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!
Boggle brains with this fully resourced philosophy lesson explores the fundamental nature, assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics!
This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited.
This fully resourced philosophy lesson is ideal for teachers who want to explore philosophy of mathematics 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 mathematics
The unique nature of mathematical knowledge
Theories of mathematics such as logicism, intuitionism and formalism
The link between mathematics and the natural world
The idea that mathematics can be beautiful
The big question asked in this session is “Are mathematical laws invented or discovered?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as
What is a number?
What is the purpose of mathematics?
To what extent is nature itself governed by mathematical principles, rules and laws?
Does a mathematical law refer to physical reality or is it only a mental construct with no bearing on reality?
Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical claims such as:
“Mathematical knowledge is something we discover entirely through studying the physical world”
“Numbers never lie”
“Mathematics is the best way to objectively understand the world”
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
This resource is especially suitable for teachers of mathematics who are looking to explore the fundamental nature, assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics more deeply with students and bring philosophy, philosophical thinking and critical thinking into their maths lessons.
The file is a non-editable 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!
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