A menu of 16 activities that are weighted in differing difficulties, allows ownership over extension activities by the students and can easily translate to rewards.<br />
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Easily adaptable for all subjects and all ages.
Worksheet to help students develop empathy skills beyond simply an emotion. Considering many aspects such as seeing, feeling and what to do next. There is an additional page which allows students to think, pair and share.<br />
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Useful in any subject where character analysis at specific times are required.
Three monologues for Christmas, written from the first person point of view from<br />
The Innkeeper<br />
The Shepherds<br />
A Wise Man<br />
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Monologues are total of 773 words - so approximately 2 minutes each, ideal to wrap around Christmas carols at a Christmas concert
DIRT is a proven way to support students in making steady and regular progress through specific, targeted improvement. <br />
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This DIRT board is useful for ten minute dedicated improvement time. Two sheets on an A4 provide real focus. It also meets requirements for learner responses, and a literacy element focussed on spelling improvement.
A lesson based around Free Will and the impact this has on suffering. <br />
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The lesson begins with a few what would you do scenarios-asking students to respond based on a series of predefined responses. <br />
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The lesson then moves on to Free Will and watching two clips from the BBC to evaluate if free will is good or bad.<br />
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Students should then read the 'Fall' from Genesis and respond to several questions.
An example monologue for Moses. Useful for engaging students who sometimes find stories from the bible difficult to access - see extract below:<br />
"OK – so I was leading my gang out of trouble, but they did not need to follow me – did they? <br />
I don’t really think you could call it a turf war, okay there was my people and their people – but you know as well as I do – their people always had the upper hand."
Six different responses to the issue. Students can decide if an argument is for or against, they can restructure responses or use the information for answering an evaluation question. <br />
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A writing frame for answering evaluation style questions, using the FARM method. There are also a set of statements available for assessing by teacher, self or peer. There is a simple method of tick boxes for statements.
Presentation <br />
1. Say what you see - key words for Abraham<br />
2. Empathy writing - 5 senses<br />
3. Empathy writing - Structure to a diary entry<br />
4. Model example of empathy paragraph.<br />
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A worksheet to record either how multiple characters feel about a single event or how a single character feels about multiple events. Preparatory work for any empathy piece of writing.
Looking at Martin Luther King, it is useful for students to consider different terms that are used to describe him. Students have to choose five that they feel are most relevant and order them. There are words they may not be aware and this will encourage dictionary or research work. <br />
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Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr_.svg
An introductory lesson to prejudice and discrimination. Based on an old Channel 4 show, you introduce the students to 6 characters, asking them to eliminate somebody from winning £1million based on different criteria each round. The first round is based purely on appearance, followed by further sections such as job, family, view on testing on animals as well as other key factors. It is designed to make people recognise their own prejudices, and then question the importance for all information and not judging a book by its cover.<br />
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There are follow up activities that include<br />
* recognising the influences on our prejudices<br />
* reflecting on each person<br />
* defining prejudice<br />
* defining discrimination<br />
* Quick look at Galatians 3:28<br />
* Consideration of lyrics from songs about prejudice<br />
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NB all images are either personal images or selected using BING where license has been selected as Free to modify, share and use commercially<br />
* I designed this lesson on my teaching practice and it has been a staple of my teaching every year since, when used for inspection or performance management observations (it has been used for both and interview) it has always been rated as an excellent lesson.
<p>Use of lots of resources used to build a dual coding sheet on Production Processes featuring Job, Flow and Batch alongside advantages and disadvantages.<br />
Also consideration of automation, computing and robotics. Advantages and disadvantages,</p>
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An evaluation preparation resource. With five different characters presenting different approaches to the use of contraception, people decide if the arguments 'Agree' or 'Disagree' with the statement alongside a space for pupils to add alternative points of view.
Students can use this worksheet to aid in recording key information on religious leaders from Moses and Abraham to Jesus to Nicky Cruz and Martin Luther King; from the Buddha to the Dalai Lama. <br />
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This can be easily adapted and many of the questions lead to answering GCSE style questions about the individual.
Definition for Moral and Cultural Relativism<br />
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Quiz for personal perspective on 10 statements for moral, and a further 10 for cultural laws. Students evaluate their own approach and then discuss. <br />
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A useful tool for analysing the effectiveness of group work through peer and self assessment. Very often certain students will complain if they others are credited unfairly for their work - this is an easy sheet using a simple visible representation followed by an open discussion and conclusion amongst the group concerning contribution. There is also the ability for the students to complete a www/ebi.
An introductory lesson to the idea of the Caste System, with a code cracking sheet to name the castes, followed by a numeracy task to show a simplified approach to Karma, using simple behaviours and weightings.