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These resources were created by specialist and experienced staff and lead practitioners from a Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethics department.
Please don't download and run! Review what you download and leave feedback for our development. Thanks!
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
Lesson 6/10 in a unit on Alternative religions designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Analyse video clip to find key beliefs of Scientology
Compare and contrast to beliefs from religions learnt about previously
Evaluate a key figure in scientology and why they are so important
Analyse and respond to key Scientology teachings.
Assess the effects of scientologist beliefs on behaviour
Student as teacher homework.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
THIS IS A BUNDLE OFFER - all lessons are available for purchase separately. However, this bundle offer works out at less than half the price of buying them separately, along with the inclusion of extra materials.
This unit of work was designed for study in one hour a week. We used it with Y9 classes to allow them the chance to look at lesser known religions/branches of religions and belief systems such as Scientology, Kabbalah, Sufism and Humanism. Can easily be adapted for older/younger students.
Lesson PPTs include differentiated LOs, variety of tasks, peer assessment, Bright Sparks G&T tasks and homework. There is also a a practice assessment lesson, along with a literacy based assessment as an alternative to the independent project assessment.
Designed to taught in one hour a week. All resources for each lesson are in the containing folders.
Created by Allerton Grange School RS Department.
THIS IS A BUNDLE OFFER - all lessons are available for purchase separately. However, this bundle offer works out at almost half the price of buying them separately.
This unit of work was designed for study in one hour a week. We used it with Y9 classes to allow them the chance to look at how religions may make moral decisions. There is a lesson on each of the six main world religions.
Lesson PPTs include differentiated LOs, variety of tasks, peer assessment, Bright Sparks G&T tasks and homework. There is also an assessment.
Designed to taught in one hour a week. All resources for each lesson are in the containing folders.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
Lesson 8 in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Photo starter - respond to the issue in the picture
Reflection task on four noble truths - what is our behaviour like?
Investigate what the eight fold path is and how it could change a person's life/behaviour
Worksheet task
task on reincarnation and how this can be affected by a person's behaviour
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
This lesson was designed for the Edexcel A-level Religious Studies from 2016.
Contains preparation homework task (in footnotes), music task and discussion, homework check - argument from analogy and link to inductive arguments, visual information slides on Paley's watch analogy, video clip analysis, venn diagram task, literacy plenary and homework task.
Created by Allerton Grange School RS department.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how holy books contain historical stories that we can learn from, by looking at the Ramayana in Hinduism, before making links to other topics covered in Religious Studies such as, the responsibilities/life of a prince, the role of women, the existence of evil, and the importance of friendship.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how holy books are a sources of rules and guidance by looking at the Tripitaka and the Eightfold Path of Buddhism.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
This assessment project completes the unit of work on Alternative Religions.
Students can work independently to research and create a project on the religion/belief system of their choice.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how holy books contain historical stories that we can learn from, by looking at the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
Lesson 5 of ten. This lesson looks at the practices of Sufi Muslims. It analyses how this branch of Islam developed and gives students the chance to compare and contrast Sufism with the other branches of Islam studied in this unit - Sunni and Shiah.
Students will analyse a video clip to understand the meaning of mysticism and religious experience before looking in detail at the whirling dervishes. They will go on to compare and contrast Sufi practices with practices from other faiths.
G&T tasks, AFL and homework task included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
Second lesson in unit on Religion and Morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in oen hour a week
Students begin by responding to various moral dilemmas. Then work out if they are absolute or relative moralists.
Analyse a video clip and have a class debate based on responses to the clip.
Gets students to use higher level thinking skills to evaluate questions.
Homework sheet and differentiated task included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
Lesson four in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Reflective starter.
Link to previous homework and learning.
Analyse what we know already about what Christian morals are based on - 10 commandments
Categorise those commandments and make links with modern Christian teachings - 2 greatest commandments
Creative work based on Good Samaritan story
Reflective independent work based on modern news story and how those beliefes being put into practice could have changed the outcome.
Research homework
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
Sixth lesson in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Link to homework and previous learning.
Literacy task on nam japna and reflection on it's application
Shared reading task on Kirat Karna and evaluate it's importance
Discussion task
Analysis of a video clip on Vand Chakna and Seva
Application of Sikh morals to moral dilemmas
Homework task.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
Lesson 7 in a unit on morality in religion designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Categorising starter
Link to previous homework/learning.
Walkaround task to gather information
investigated a quote from the quran to find out what it teaches
analysing a story from islam to find out what it teaches
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
This is the final lesson in the unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
The sheet consists of a set of questions, each one allowing students to attain each of the Religious Education levels. Students can respond from any of the religions we have studied over the course of this unit and there is opportunity for students to respond individually to gain AT2 levels.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department
2nd of 3 lessons on the Teleological Argument for the new 2016 specification.
Bell work task, homework check, a-level key terms, prediction task - criticisms from Hume, Written task and discussion plenary. Gifted and Talented 'Bright Sparks tasks and AFL throughout. Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RS department.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how some holy books are treated as living scriptures, looking at the Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
Originally created by susangrace, I have just adapted the images to cover all of the 6 world religions. I have also added in a few maths symbols that could be cut out and stuck around the sheets.
Suitable for Philosophy and Ethics and World Religions in KS3/4/5.
A selection of quotes to cover the topics on the edexcel Religion and Life/Religion and Society exam.
Adapted and developed from a revision ppt downloaded from the REstuff website (apologies - can't remember who the original author was) and others added by me.
Can be printed onto card and cut up, or printed onto Avery L7165 stickers to stick onto index cards.
Can be used in conjunction with the Practice Questions flashcards that I have created, either as part of personal revision or for use with students as part of an intervention programme. Could also be given to A-A* students to help cement their grade.
This is the assessment feedback lesson for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world. It also contains an introduction to the next unit, ‘Should everyone worship in the same way’.
The lesson begins with a multiple choice knowledge quiz, before moving on to addressing targets and redrafting their essay from the assessment lesson, using a model answer for help.
There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.
