Designed for OCR A Level Philosophy Lesson Objective: To explain St Thomas Aquinas’ Fifth Way of the Teleological Argument and it’s criticisms Lesson Includes: Aquinas 5 ways starter task 2 worksheets outlining Aquinas’ arguments and it’s premises along with comprehension and evaluative questions 2 worksheets identifying strengths and weaknesses of Aquinas’ arguments - assessing how successful and credible each strength/weakness is from Flew, Hume (briefly) and Voltaire Review summary task Would be suitable for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas

Designed for OCR A Level Philosophy Lesson Objective: To outline the Teleological Argument as a case for the existence of God. Lesson Includes: Key Terms Starter Task - Interactive link in notes 2 worksheets identifying argument from design Text book chapter and review worksheet SMHW link to homework Would be suitable for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas

Designed for OCR A Level Philosophy Lesson Objective: to understand Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason This is the 6th lesson taught in the cosmological argument unit of work Lesson Includes: Reading on the Principle of Sufficient Reason 1 worksheet to use with the linked video clip identifying strengths and weaknesses of the argument of contingency and Leibniz’ theory of sufficient reason Model Answer activity for exam question: Evaluate the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument for Proving God Exists (the answer achieves 32/40) Highlight Heads review worksheet Would be suitable for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas

This is a lesson designed for the OCR Philosophy A Level. This lesson introduces the four causes, potentiality and actuality, and the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotle’s Four causes. The lesson also introduces an exam question to plan along with a model answer from a student who achieved 14/16 and 23/24 in the 2019 exams

This is the first lesson taught for the Aristotle unit for OCR A Level. The lesson reviews Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s Theory of the Forms and then compares Plato’s rationalism to Aristotle’s empiricism. The lesson does use a page from the OCR textbook for one of the tasks, but all of the textbook’s designed for the new specification (I have copies of them all) have a page/double page on this that could be used for this task. The lesson includes homework which introduces the Aristotle topic This would be suitable for other exam boards

Designed for OCR A Level Philosophy Lesson Objective: to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Plato’s arguments Lesson Includes: Recall Quiz Starter Task 2 worksheets identifying strengths and weaknesses of Plato’s arguments - assessing how successful and credible each strength/weakness is Model Answer activity for exam question: ‘Episteme comes from reason, not doxa’ Discuss Highlight Heads review worksheet Would be suitable for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas