This resource is Lesson 1 on a new unit for 2024 aimed at KS3. The lesson and PowerPoints include a range of engaging, high-quality activities covering an introduction to Prejudice and Discrimination.
Lesson includes:
Homework slide
Review of prior learning
Title, objective and date
Key Words
Video Tasks
Analysis Task
Evaluation
Plenary
Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoint itself and also in the resources to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension. Challenges (extension tasks) also exist throughout the lessons to further enhance skills and understanding.
There are a variety of knowledge, understanding and evaluation tasks throughout the lesson, including video and debate activities that the students always love - year-on-year.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This resource is Lesson 1 on a new unit for 2024 aimed at KS3. The lesson and PowerPoints include a range of engaging, high-quality activities covering an a study on Speciesism.
Lesson includes:
Homework slide
Review of prior learning
Title, objective and date
Key Words
Video Tasks
Analysis Task
Evaluation
Plenary
Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoint itself and also in the resources to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension. Challenges (extension tasks) also exist throughout the lessons to further enhance skills and understanding.
There are a variety of knowledge, understanding and evaluation tasks throughout the lesson, including video and debate activities that the students always love - year-on-year.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This resource is Lesson 5 on a new unit for 2024 aimed at KS3. The lesson and PowerPoints include a range of engaging, high-quality activities covering institutional injustice (Emmett Till case)
Lesson includes:
Homework slide
Review of prior learning
Title, objective and date
Key Words
Video Tasks
Analysis Task
Evaluation
Plenary
Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoint itself and also in the resources to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension. Challenges (extension tasks) also exist throughout the lessons to further enhance skills and understanding.
There are a variety of knowledge, understanding and evaluation tasks throughout the lesson, including video and debate activities that the students always love - year-on-year.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Soul, Mind and Body, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Plato’s Soul
Aristotle’s Soul
Descartes
Arguing for Dualism
Dawkins
Ryle
Susan Blackmore
Arguing against the Soul
Property Dualism
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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All three units (Philosophy, Ethics and Theology), 28 PowerPoints in total, to revise the course from the specification.
It is advised that students revise from the specification rather than from any interpreted document, e.g. through revision guides (whether endorsed or not). Therefore, these PowerPoints enable students to revise the specific content and learn the language of the specification through directed note-taking (AO1) and questioning (AO2).
Philosophy topics:
Ancient Philosophical Influences
Soul, Mind, Body
Arguments from Observation
Arguments from Reason
Religious Experience
Problem of Evil
Nature of God
Religious Language
20th Century Perspectives
Ethics topics:
Utilitarianism
Natural Law
Situation Ethics
Kantian Ethics
Euthanasia
Business Ethic
Conscience
Meta-Ethics
Sexual Ethics
Theology topics:
Augustine on Human Nature
Death and the Afterlife
Knowledge of God’s Existence
Jesus Christ
Christian Principles
Christian Practices
Religious Pluralism
Secularism
Gender
Liberation Theology and Marx
This resource is indented for the OCR AS/A Level specification. For other specifications, the ‘what you need to know’ sections would need to be reviewed.
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Kantian Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. It is a 26 page document (PDF also included) to support your learners.
These workbooks are ideal for independent study or set as topic-specific homework/revision.
Resource Includes:
Kant and duty
Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
Kant’s three formulas
Application of Kantian Ethics
Assessing the idea of duty
Analysing Kantian ethics
Exam questions (35 marks each) and technique
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Natural Law, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. The PDF is also included, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Aristotle’s idea of telos
Four tiers of law (Aquinas)
Primary and secondary precepts (Aquinas)
Applying Natural Law and the doctrine of double effect
Analaysis of arguments
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Kantian Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Kant and duty
Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
Kant’s three formulas
Application of Kantian Ethics
Assessing the idea of duty
Analysing Kantian ethics
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: The Challenge of Secularism, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Christian Moral Principles, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Approaches to Morality
Bible as a source of ethics
Love as the only ethical principle
Christian virtue ethics
Authority of the Church
Authority of the Bible
Authority of Reason
Whether Christian ethics are distinctive, communal and/or personal
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Religious Pluralism (in Theology and Society), as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: The Nature or Attributes of God, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Omnipotence
Omnibenevolence
Eternal / Everlasting God
Omniscience
Conflicts / Issues
Limits to the Attributes
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Situation Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as a Word document and as a PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Fletcher
Agape
Four working principles
Six propositions
Application of Situation Ethics
Situationism as a religious theory
Analysing SE
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Sexual Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Premarital and Extramarital Sex
Homosexuality
Natural Law
Situation Ethics
Utilitarianism
Kantian Ethics
Do religious views still have a role in modern sexual ethics?
Is sexual behaviour private?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Karl Marx and Liberation Theology, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole unit on a page!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Gender (in Theology and Society), as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Death and the Afterlife, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Christian teachings on heaven
Christian teachings on hell
Assessing teachings on heaven and hell
Purgatory
Election
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christianity: Knowledge of God’s Existence, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Innate Sense of the Divine
Natural Knowledge of God
Revealed Knowledge of God
Jesus Christ
Barth and Brunner
Are natural and revealed knowledge the same?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a revision sheet indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Business Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Whistleblowing
Globalisation and Business
Utilitarianism and Business
Kantian Ethics and Business
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Religious Language, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
The Apophatic Way / Via Negativa
Strengths and weaknesses of the apophatic way
The Cataphatic Way / Via Positive
Strengths and weaknesses of the cataphatic way
Tillich and Symols
Strengths and weaknesses of Tillich
Ramsey
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!