RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
This revision pack follows the AQA text book for year 2. Its scaffolded to make things easier.
It covers the principles of dualism according to Descartes, including critiques, before moving onto physicalism (functionalism) and dual-aspect Monism.
I hope it helps your students revise!
This is a knowledge organiser for Theme A. It summarises the main contrasting views, key words, and lists a selection of references to Biblical sources.
This lesson focuses mainly on Christianity and looks at marriage and it’s value for Christians. It thinks about the nature and purpose of marriage for Christians. You can’t teach this without touching on the difficulty of homosexual marriage for Christians, this idea is explored in previous lessons but comes up again here.
There are a couple videos, one is a nice one of the recent royal wedding, I found my students went all gushy and it was a nice moment as a class. The activity associated is about spotting the symbolism and understanding what it says about the beliefs.
This is a scheme of work for AQA GCSE RS, there are 8 lessons.
1 - 5 pillars and 10 obligatory acts and Shahadah
2 - Salah
3 - Sawm
4 - Zakah
5 - Hajj
6 - Id-ul-Fitr and Id-ul-Adha
7 - Jihad
8 - Ashura
My lessons tend to be quite information heavy so they are a good revision resource, you may find you need to add in more activities as appropriate for your teaching style.
This lesson looks at the nature of the Qur’an what it is like and some of the beliefs about it. It also looks at the other Holy books that are referenced in the Qur’an. It’s a straightforward power point, following the AQA Spec and will hopefully save you some time!
This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work)
I recommend laminating and printing each set of different colour paper. There are about 30 words in total.
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available as bundle
Also available
Christianity
Islam
Themes A - F
Please review!
Thanks
This bundle includes my keyword revision game for themes
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
This bundle includes my keyword revision game for themes B,C,D
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work)
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available
Christianity
Islam
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
Thanks
Here is a keywords booklet for Theme E. These are the actual words and definitions from AQA, organised into a format ready for a booklet.
This is also available as a bundle
This is a power point and silent debate sheet for an A level lesson of Calvin’s doctrine of accommodation. The power point is relatively brief which allows students to spend the second half of the double doing activities. I had mine do a silent debate (they had a hand out which was an extract from the Eduqas textbook and 10 mins to read it and highlight) They really did well and enjoyed it a lot, much to my surprise as this isn’t the most interesting unit for them!
These four packs contain over 200 exam style questions between them.
The cover the 4,5 and 12 mark style questions for all topic areas for Christianity and Islam.
Students will notice patterns in the exam questioning and be able to work on their answers at home.
I’ve also included the exam paper overview for free.
Lesson 4 - Festivals (Christmas and Easter)
Lesson 5 - Role of the Church in the Community
Lesson 6 - The place of mission and evangelism
Lesson 7 - Growth of the worldwide Church
Please see individual lessons (uploaded separately) for more detail on each one.
This lesson covers Ashura from Shi’a Islam, an interesting and evocative topic, great for class discussion. There are also exam style questions in the power point.
This is a detailed lesson based off the text book for Eduqas Alevel Religious Studies. You do not need the text book to teach this.
There are questions throughout and exam style questions.
One of the most misunderstood concepts in Islam. This lesson follows the AQA textbook. The emphasis of the lesson is more on greater jihad and it opens itself up nicely for lots of discussion.
there are exam questions at the end.
