Can you come back from the dead?

A KS3 Religious Studies lesson, using an enquiry based approach to learning and based on paranormal beliefs as a way to explore belief in the afterlife. Following the 2018 Berkshire SACRE agreed syllabus with a focus on exploring the principles of ‘believing, belonging and behaving’ in a religious and secular context. This is lesson 2 of the topic ‘Do you only live once?’
Students start by responding to a variety of experiences surrounding those who have had near death experiences and then watch three video clips, showing arguments for and against near death experiences being genuine.
Students respond to this information with a choice of creative tasks, choosing from a diary entry, a report or a debate.
Students then respond to an evaluative statement, with sentence starters and expectations modelled on the slide. The statement is; ‘Near death experiences prove that there is life after death.’ Students are expected to answer in three paragraphs, giving reasons for and aganist as well as concluding.
The plenary is a self- or peer-assessment task, with a selection of feedback demonstrating the expectations for answering an evaluative question.