The Design Argument

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Design argument aimed at KS3 students. It could very easily be adapted to suit KS4. The main activities include:

* A discussion task on how the natural world and universe itself can show evidence of design (facts are provided as a stimulus and focus)
* Reading through Paley's watch story (analogy) as a class and completing an ordering task (could easily be adapted to a card sort!?)
* Writing their own modern story of the argument to demonstrate understanding.
* Assessing the potential problems with the argument, using visual clues to assist them.

Lesson Objectives:

To describe how the world around us can show evidence of design.
To explain the key features of the design argument.
To assess potential problems with the argument.