A lesson with reading and resources focusing on the way that Buddhist belief in miracles and karma could and has been criticised by science. AQA Year 2, Paper 2A, but could be adapted for other spects.
A ready to talk through lesson outlining key questions that can be considered when applying Natural Moral Law, Situation Ethics and Virtue Ethics to issues of human and animal life and death, as outlined on the AQA Spec for RE, unit 1 Philo and Ethics. includes an explanation of all the ethical issues and direct revision ideas for each.
4 lessons covering the spec content on Buddhism, Migration and Pluralisation of religion. These lessons are fully resourced and include revision activities. Please note that as these were taught over concurrent lessons, there are 2 lessons per power point.
A lesson that utilises a specially-created revision booklet for AQA RE A Level - 2A dialogues, including essay plans and structures to help students engage with the content.
Teachings on -
ultimate reality
self, death and afterlife
sources of wisdom and authority
Analysis questions:
How far the belief is reasonable – that is based on reason and/or consistent with reason.
How meaningful the statements of faith are, and for whom.
How coherent the beliefs are, and how consistent with other beliefs within the belief system.
A 12 page booklet (written in the style of a textbook) designed to help students understand all the content that could be considered when comparing Buddhist ethics with teleology, deontology and character-based methods of making moral decisions. The booklet is designed to reference A01 and A02 content to help students understand what they should be explaining and what they should be evaluating. To help students use the booklet properly there is an attached lesson with possible exam questions and a blank knowledge organiser to help them engage with the booklet content.
Everything students need to know for Year 2 AQA Buddhism (minus dialogues content - see my shop for dialogues resources). I print these in an A4 booklet as a basis for revision.
A set of resourced lessons for AQA RE Year 1 content: Philosophy - Evil and Suffering. Covers all theodicies and contains revision resources.
Please note that these resources do require use of the new AQA A Level Year 1 text book.
A 5 lesson series including all powerpoints, to be be used in cojunction with the AQA text book.
Also includes 3 supplementary lessons that were taught as an intro drop down day and a lesson for dialogues with Buddhism (RE 2A content with AQA).
Written for AQA spec but can be adapted to suit other specs.
Updated for 2019-2020:
10 Lesson Series to be used in conjunction with the new AQA AS text book.
These lessons were taught twice per week and lessons were 85 minutes.
Resources include power points, worksheets, planned homeworks and resources such as card sorts and a knowledge organiser.
Could be adapted for other specs.
Everything students need to known for AQA RE A Level Virtue Ethics in a handy double page spread. All A01 and A02 content is covered, with practise questions based on AQA assessment resources.
A lesson on the concept of authority/Risalah and Prophethood in Islam. Presentation and worksheets included, plus worksheets in Spanish for EAL students.
This unit of work was created as a RE unit for a nurture group of year 7s and 8s, however all students were working at a KS2 year 3/4 level and so this unit would also be appropriate for secondary teachers. Some existing TES resources have been adapted here to help suit this low ability - bundle includes presentations and worksheets for 6 85 minute lessons. The lessons use a "universal symbols" code to aid SEN understanding - these symbols are explained in a separate ppt.
New and updated for 2019:
Fully resourced 8 lesson series including powerpoints, homeworks and revision resources (with a KO) for teaching the AQA Year 13 ethics unit about the conscience, including revision materials. In places does require a copy of the AQA RE A level Year 2 text book.
Taught over 2x 85 minute lessons per week.
Could be adapted for other specs.
2 lessons exploring a variety of theological views on the conscience - resources include tables to fill in, multiple choice quiz and scholarly views that are broken down and easily digestible.
Please note that one activity on Aquinas uses the AQA Year 2 textbook, but the rest of the activities are fully resourced here.
Lesson focusing on how tourism and other factors have shaped Thai views towards women, holding in tension the "Old" and "New" values of Thai society - presentation for the lesson, alongside sociological essay to help students understand the changing roles.
A lesson and knowledge organizer homework preparing students for the Conscience module of AQA Year 2 RE A Level Ethics (new spec). This lesson was taught in 85 minutes and the KO was set as half term homework.
Fill in the gaps knowledge organisers, with thorough (8,000) word document containing all key knowledge for Year 1 AQA A Level RE Buddhism (paper 2A). This can be used in conjunction with key questions and a Sanskrit/Pali glossary to ensure that students are fully comprehending key religious content.