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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!
Lesson designed for the beginning of the Edexcel A-level Religious Studies course.
Differentiated learning objectives, video clip analysis, introduction to inductive and deductive reasoning, introduction to priori/posteriori, paired tasks, AFL, Key term starter/plenary, homework resources.
Created by Allerton Grange School RS Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
In this lesson students will investigate Humanism using resources from the Humanism website.
Students will look at Humanist beliefs and the idea of not believing in God, but valuing human beings.
AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
In this lesson students will investigate the religion of Kabbalah. They will begin by peer-assessing the homework due in this lesson and then after sharing the learning objectives will analyse a video clip which looks at choosing whether or not to find out the truth about life.
Students will look at the Kabbalist idea that the universe is full of hidden messages and will decode a hidden message before undertaking a creative work task where they design their own hidden code.Students work in pairs to work out each-other's codes before reflecting on whether or not they could follow Kabbalah and give reasons for their response.
AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included.
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 5 in a unit in morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Photo starter - empathise with the subjects in the photo
Link to previous learning and homework
cloxe exercise on Hindu morals
mind-mapping skills to show examples of activities which conflict with ahimsa and how Hindu morals could solve them.
PMI (positive, minus, interesting) a video clip on Ghandi
Creative independent work based on video clip
SEN and Bright Sparks (G&T) tasks included
Differentiated homework sheet
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First in a series of 10 lessons. Looks at religions practised in Britain which are not as well known.
Students are given time to set up new books etc as this is the first lesson of the year.
Students look at a number of optical illusions to highlight the fact that people can see the same thing in different ways.
Prioritising task - students have to create their own groups within the class based on shared values.
Mind--mapping task to look at things that people find important.
Personal reflection homework
Contains Bright Sparks G&T tasks throughout
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
This is lesson 7/10 in our unit on alternative religions and looks at the practice of Zen Buddhism. Students will analyse a clip to learn about the way of the Buddha. They will then go on to look at the practice of meditation before being guided through a meditation by the teacher.
In the last half of the lesson students will have the chance to do some creative work and design their own special ritual that helps them to find peace and calm.
AFL, G&T tasks and homework task included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
This lesson is the second in this series on Shia Islam and looks at the different beliefs between Shiah's and Sunni's. Students investigate the festival of Ashura and make informed opinions on why some people would agree/disagree with Ashura as a festival.
It looks at the four rightly guided caliphs and analyses the issue of Ali not being the first leader after the death of Muhammad (pbuh).
G&T tasks, Peer-assessment, AFL and homework task included.
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
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.
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 holy books as sources of rules and guidance through the moral and ritual mitzvoth in the Torah.
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.
Lesson PPT and a knowledge sheet for the question based tasks. 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 revealed, through general and direct revelation, and looks at the difference between the Quran and the Bible.
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 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.
Based on the TES CPD document, 'Getting the Best out of Gifted Learners'.
A set of cards which can be laminated and placed in a cardboard wallet pinned up at the front of the class. Students can either select one at random to create an alternative activity to the one that the rest of the class are completing, or they can use them as extension tasks, depending on how much time there is.
I have included the label for the folder and a set of example tasks that we used for an RS lesson but we have used for History, Citizenship and PSHE lessons. They can be easily adapted to suit your subject/the topic being covered. If we don't have time to let students choose their activity, we will usually pick just one 'Bright Sparks' activity that we set as an alternative task.
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.
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.
