Two worksheets on white collar vs blue collar crime. One is a notetaking sheet outlining the differences between the two types of crime using the WJEC GCSE Sociology book to help them (could use any book though that outlines the differences between the two) The other sheet gets students thinking about types of crime that could be committed within each job role (focusing on white collar crime). Made for GCSE but could be adapted/used for A Level as a quick activity.

As the title suggests. Statements about individualist or collectivist cultures for students to sort into two columns. Good way of getting them to understand the difference between the two. I use for GCSE Sociology (Family topic)

Brief overview on the theories of the family including generic statements and key terms, family they prefer and don't prefer. Put these up around where students gathered before their GCSE exam.

Activity to label structure of a neuron. Colour coded table including part, description and function. Cut and stick exercise. Made for A Level Psychology but no reason it couldn't be used for other sciences. (Answers included)

Students love doing this fun cartoon and stages match up. Hand drawn by myself to illustrate the stages of Cohen's Status Frustration. File comes with each of the 6 stages. Students have to put them in a flow diagram. Students can also add their own speech and thoughts to the bubbles on the pictures. (Correct order of the stages included as a picture). Can be used for GCSE or A Level. All exam boards use Cohen's Status Frustration in Crime and Deviance topic. I am looking at providing more of these cartoons to illustrate different theories. Let me know if there are any you would like. Please provide feedback if you like.

4 carousel activities (1 at each station) for students to complete to work out positives and negatives of the biological explanation of unipolar depression.

A great way of recapping and checking knowledge on measurements of crime. Connect 4 style game based on statements about the three measurements of crime. Includes: Statements (Which need to be cut up) Connect 4 game board Connect 4 powerpoint instructions. Works best in groups of 3. If you want to make it last longer increase the number they need to get in a row. Give each pupil a different colour pen/pencil/highlighter/felt tip. Students enjoy this. Usually takes around 20-30 mins.

The file includes the following: Blank board games sheet. (publisher) Sociology themed game counters (publisher) Instructions for students to make the board game (powerpoint) Question cards templates for students to cut out. (word) Students enjoy making their own games. I give each group a topic (The family or crime and deviance for example) and get them to make a game based around this. Give each group scissors, glue, an A3 game board on card and the resources and they make it. It may take 2-3 lessons but well worth it. Students then get the opportunity to play theirs and others in the lesson after. Great way of students to check understanding of topics and turn the learning on its head. Students have to go through the book to formulate questions, Great for revision without them even realising it! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. Can be used in any subject but the counters are specific to Sociology.

Essay planning booklet for WJEC Sociology GCSE Crime and Deviance Includes: List of past questions Questions I have come up with (around 15-20) Planning sheet with the title of each essay question on An example mark scheme. Tips on essay structure. Our feedback sheet which I have after every essay page. I tend to have a front cover (attached), followed by the past questions and my questions, then have a question plan sheet, followed by space (lined paper sheet), followed by a feedback sheet. Students find these extremely helpful. Can be done in class and/or at home. I have a booklet for crime and deviance and a booklet for the family Please note this does not have topic info in, use the book for that. This is for the OLD WJEC GCSE Sociology Course A*-U

7 files to help teach research methods. There are no powerpoints in this file. The file includes a worksheet on access (gatekeepers) where students have to come up with the gatekeeper for the situation. A worksheet where students are given ways in which values (bias) can enter research and they have to think of ways this could impact on their research. A double page activity sheet on positivism to highlight its scientific approach etc. A Twitter sheet for students to outline what each methodological perspective may tweet about when it comes to research #quantitative etc. A sampling activity where students think about the best sampling type for each piece of research. A blank tables for students to fill in about four approaches to methodology (positivist, interpretivist, realist and feminist) Another blank table for students to fill in about different types of observations.

A workbook to complete in order to summarise each of the studies needed as part of the OCR GCSE Psychology course. APRCE template for each study. Each page has the same format where studies need to fill in information relating to the study. We set this for homework as a consolidation activity. Front page contains information that relates to our school but is uploaded as a publisher file and so can be deleted/adapted to your own school.

A lesson about how the roles of women have changed in the family and why they have changed. More concentration on the latter. There is also some debate about whether feminism is still needed or not by looking at improvements in women's lives and what is still to be improved. File includes: Powerpoint (with links to appropriate video clips) I like to start the lesson by showing Meghan Trainor 'Dear Future Husband' to allow students to try to guess what we will be studying in the lesson. Within the powerpoint there is also recent adverts to compare to the 1950s to show how little has changed. Also a worksheet on adverts from the 1950s. Students have to find the point of the advert, what has improved for women, and what hasn't improved to help them come to a conclusion about whether feminism is still needed. There is also a document from the Good Housekeeping Guide to show how women were expected to behave in the 1950s. Kahoot link. I have also provided a Kahoot link (in powerpoint) for a fun quiz on the family (overview). Students love Kahoot! Students loved this lesson and worked well with year 10-11. Great for the family topic or feminism in general. Could be adapted for A Level. Any feedback is greatly received.

This sheet contains a huge number of names as a spider diagram, Laid out a students wanted, where each theorist falls and under which topic. Took an extremely long time to make!

I put together 3 overview sheets covering Top Down and Bottom up approaches to offender profiling. There are 2 sheets on AO1 and 1 sheet covering AO3 (all word documents). Photocopy as many as you like for your students but please don’t share with other teachers. These took roughly 3 hours to make!

This is a task used to get students to apply the AQA Psychology A Level Relationships topic to the film Love Actually. It’s become a staple of my course and is up there with the sweet neuron lessons, sampling with Skittles lessons. This idea being that they: Watch the film, Love Actually. As they watch they write down examples of Evolutionary explanations, Factors affecting attraction and theories of romantic relationships, as shown in the film. Then afterwards the teacher will go through some examples on the board of this to support them through the group work. The students will be put into groups and create an overview sheet on one particular topic (Filter Theory for example). They will then create a sheet referring to key terms and concepts, using examples from the film. I usually give them a lesson to start then the rest is homework. For obvious reasons, this download does not include the film. At various points this can be found on streaming sites. At time of putting this resource up it can be found on both Amazon Prime and Britbox. It is periodically on Netflix (often in the run up to Christmas). It’s a great pre-Christmas activity and allows you to have display work at the end of it. This file includes: Note sheet for students to fill in with examples from the film (A teacher cheat sheet to help prompt the students). I’ve also included the names of the main protagonists and pictures to help students. I’ve also included the times I would try to skip over in the film (roughly, please watch before showing students) as there are a few sex scenes in which may be a bit awkward to watch with your classes! Times can be found on the teacher cheat sheet. It also includes headings for the display. To get the full effect please download the following fonts (Helvetica and Helvetica Light (which mirror the Love Actually font) for the display titles. You can convert them but they won’t have quite the same effect. I’ve also included a couple of photos of the displays produced by my classes (in progress). You could get them to do it individually if you wish. https://www.fontsplace.com/helvetica-light-free-font-download.html https://freefontsfamily.com/helvetica-font-family/ If you have any questions please email me at jwilson@arthurmellows.org

The activity gets students to apply their knowledge of the bottom up approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling to 2 crimes cases. They have a 2 maps, 2 lists of crimes. They have to work out, using geogprahical profiling: If it is a marauder/commuter (they would need to have been taught this but most teachers do as part of geographical profiling). Where their home base is Building up an offender profile based on the evidence they have. This resource includes: 2 maps (best printed A3 doubled sided) - publisher 2 lists of crimes (best printed A4 double sided) - word - be careful, teacher answers are on the last page. Powerpoint introduction and instructions for the activity. This took my 4 classes 20-30 minutes. They loved doing it and it will definitely become a staple of my teaching. It is based in Peterborough but will work anywhere. Best taught straight after the AO1 on geographical profiling and before AO3.

This is a simple overview of four different sociological theories (Functionalism, Feminism, Marxism and New Right) There is an activity to do on each in order to work out what each theory argues. There is also an empty string puppet for students to fill in about who controls society according to that theory and whether they see it as good or bad. There is also a key terms section to fill in. Students enjoy doing this and provides them with a basic overview of each of the theories. GCSE level and can be used for any exam board. My students found these extremely useful and many have them on their wall for revision. I would recomment blowing up to A3.

This is a sorting activity. Students put into groups and have to sort the slips into Approach, Name and Year, Aim, Procedure (1,2, or 3 slips), Results (1, 2 or 3 slips), Group design, Research method, 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage. There are also 7 red herrings that don't fit in any of the groups. To help students, keep checking their red herring pile. Tell them if they are right or wrong on the red herrings every so often. Students had great fun doing this. I put up a prize for the winning team. Took around 45 mins but students enjoyed it and took a lot from it. There are two attached files: one in colour for the teacher to distinguish between the different approaches) and one in black and white for students to sort through. Great for paper 3, comparing the different approaches and classic studies. It covers, Sherif, Baddeley, Raine, Watson and Rayner and Rosenhan Any questions, message me. Thanks

All the resources you need for a Sociology theories display. I have included: 4 theory overview sheets (Marxism, Feminism, Functionalism and New Right). On each of those sheets is some information regarding: Theory’s view about society, key sociologists linked to that theory, views on the family and views on crime. These can be changed if you study a different topic as they are in publisher format. I’ve also made them in Word format following constructive feedback! I have also included pictures and pieces of information, quotes etc that I used for my display. I do not own the rights to the pictures and so to make it clear, you are paying for the overview sheets and the information I have produced. I have included the picture about how I laid it out, but you may wish to lay it out differently. I also backed on different coloured paper to highlight the different theories. Currently working on Interactionism and Postmodernism. Alternatively/additionally, you can print off just the overview sheets to hand out to students. Took roughly 6 hours to do make all of the resources so asking for £8. Once it’s all up though it will last for years and won’t need updating. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.