This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Christian attitudes to euthanasia. The main part of the lesson involves a card sort where students organise the key arguments into those that support either the Anglican or Catholic viewpoint, a Biblical quote analysis task, and a 12-mark evaluation practice exam question. Learning Objectives: To explain different Christian attitudes towards euthanasia. To examine how Biblical evidence can support these viewpoints. To evaluate whether euthanasia is acceptable or not.

This is a fully resourced, introductory lesson on how people go about making moral decisions. The main part of the lesson mostly focuses on a case study to consider the effects of our moral actions, namely that the minerals from our mobile phones can be sourced (on occasion) to war zones. It contains a written task, peer discussion task and evaluation task. To describe what moral decisions are. To explain the effects of our moral decisions. To evaluate the morality of our moral decisions.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Christian Creation Story from Genesis. The main part of the lesson involves drawing a storyboard to show the key parts of the story, a pair discussion task on how Fundamentalist and Liberal Christians might view the story (leading to a card sorting task of the reasons behind the views), and finally a written reflection evaluating how they believe the story is best understood. Learning Objectives: To describe the Christian Creation Story. To explain how this story is viewed by different Christians. To evaluate how you personally believe it is best understood.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Diwali Festival. The main part of the lesson consists of describing the story of Rama and Sita in their own words, writing a paragraph explaining the purpose of the festival, then linking the meaning of the festival to examples of other famous people who have overcome darkness in their lives (e.g. Brian Keenan, Malala). To describe the story of Rama and Sita. To explain the deeper meaning behind the story and festival. To examine the similarities between the story of Rama and Sita and prior examples.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on what two world religions teach about the soul (Christianity and Hinduism). The main part of the lesson involves using information sheets to complete a grid showing religious views towards the soul and the evidence for it, which they then peer teach to their partner. They also complete a Venn diagram to compare the views, and evaluate the evidence for the existence of a soul. Learning Objectives: To explain two religious views towards the soul. To compare and contrast their views. To evaluate the evidence for the existence of a soul.

This contains a set of materials in order to carry out an assessment on a 'Ultimate Questions' unit. Students have to devise their own creation story, religious or scientific, and explain how different groups of people (e.g. atheists, Christians) may interpret it and their reasoning for it. This resource is easily adaptable to incorporate into a lesson or another scheme of learning.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Teleological (Design) Argument for the existence of God.The main part of the lesson involves a class discussion on the elements of design they can think of from the natural world and relate this to the teleological argument in a written exercise, followed by an active class demonstration of Paley’s watch analogy (you could include props such as a pocket watch!) consolidated with a card sort task, then students create their own labelled diagram (text-to-picture) exercise to show the modern reformulations of the teleological argument. An essay question is provided at the end. Learning Objectives: To outline the teleological argument for the existence of God. To explain Paley’s version of the teleological argument. To assess the effectiveness of its modern reformulations.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Bar Mitzvah's. The main part of the lesson involves using resource sheets to complete a set of differentiated questions on the activities building up to a Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony itself, and then consider in a consolidation task why they are important for individual Jews and their communities. To describe the key features of a Bar Mitzvah. To explain why these features are important. To analyse the importance of the ceremony for young Jews and their community as a whole.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how different groups of people understand miracles. The main part of the lesson involves a discussion task considering different points of view towards miracles, then considering the 'miracle of the crystal tears', students complete a worksheet explaining different potential points of view towards it (e.g. atheist, theist). It also allows them to express their own personal viewpoint towards the miracle. Learning Objectives: To describe the different views towards miracle. To explain why they might hold those views. To assess your own view on what makes a miracle.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson which acts as an introduction to euthanasia. The main part of the lesson involves a match-up task on the different types of euthanasia, a colour coding exercise on the secular arguments for and against euthanasia, then finally a group exercise where students have to produce a short newspaper article where they use the arguments to try to convince the other half of the class (the public) that Frankie Dunn was right/wrong in helping Maggie to die (scenario based on the movie 'Million Dollar Baby'. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of euthanasia. To explain non-religious arguments for and against the morality of euthanasia. To analyse which side you believe presents the strongest argument.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how babies are welcomed into the Islamic faith, otherwise known as the Aqiqah Ceremony. The main part of the lesson contains an information hunt on the different practices followed by pair-work where students have to compare the similarities and differences with Christian Baptism. Learning Objectives: To describe how Muslims welcome newborns into the Islam. To explain why these practices are important to Muslims. To compare this ceremony with the Christian tradition.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson which acts as an introduction to the idea of 'Ultimate Questions'. The main part of the lesson involves students working in pairs to generate their own examples of ultimate questions (using stimuli to help), a class viewpoint sharing task (which could be done as a silent conversation), and a written reflection task at the end where they evaluate various viewpoints towards one ultimate question. Learning Objectives are as follows: To describe examples of ‘ultimate questions’. To explain different viewpoints towards some of these questions. To express a reasoned and balanced viewpoint to one of these questions.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introductory lesson on religious experiences. The main part of the lesson involves students produce a spider diagram showing William James’s criteria for a religious experience, working in groups to complete a grid task showing its different types (i.e. mystical, corporate, conversion, visions and voices) and then link it back to William James’s classification scheme for analysis (how these examples meet some or all of his criteria), finishing off with a fun and innovative plenary. Learning Objectives: To describe the meaning of a religious experience. To explain the various categories of religious experience. To analyse whether they meet William James criteria for a religious experience.

A fully resourced lesson on meditation in Buddhism. It includes a starter where they list their life worries and how they deal with them, in the main section a task on describing the story behind Siddhartha's enlightenment and a set of meditation exercises. In the plenary they then explain why meditation is important.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how theists claim that God can be revealed to humanity (this includes general revelation and special revelation). The main part of the lesson consists of a class discussion task on the two groups of revelation (general and special), a picture sorting task where they sort different types into general revelation or special revelation, a written task where they become an 'expert' on one type of revelation, a peer teaching task and an exam question plenary. This lesson is aimed at the new 2016 AQA Religious Studies unit. It does require reference to the old AQA Philosophy textbook for the written task. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of revelation. To explain their key characteristics. To analyse the validity of these types of revelation.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the theory of evolution. In the main part of the lessons students complete a gap-filling exercise in order to understand how the basic theory works, work in pairs to rank different arguments (religious and scientific) on the 'Layers of Inference' grid, and finally complete an extended writing task on how convincing they find the theory based on the evidence and argument provided. Learning Objectives: To describe the theory of evolution. To explain the arguments for and against the theory of evolution. To evaluate how convincing you find the theory.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the symbolism of light and darkness. The main part of the lesson involves students listening to a story about an individual who becomes trapped in a cave of total darkness, and how light helped to 'push away' the darkness. They work in pairs to record the emotions the individual might have felt, and then use this as a basis to produce a piece of work showing the power of light to 'push back' the darkness. To describe the feelings and emotions associated with light and darkness. To explain the impact that light can have in overcoming darkness.

An assessment on the Three Refuges or Three Jewels. It contains clear levelled outcomes and sentence starters for the less able. Please feedback.

Students use the information cards to add at least three facts about the Day of The Dead Festival using the 6W's. A set of SEN cards are available for less able students. This task can then be used as a base for students to create their own illustrated posters about the Day of the Dead Festival.

This resource can be used as a guide for students so they are clear in how to achieve full marks in the 12 mark evaluation questions or to help them peer assess another students answer. Aimed at the new AQA GCSE Religious Studies B Specification.