Inner-city London teacher here, serving Religious Education Resources for GCSE/KS4 and KS3 and Politics for A-Level/KS5.
Full of accessible and familiar activities, this shop provides a resource for teachers looking to create a dynamic, challenging and enjoyable classroom. Download a free lesson on the Four Noble Truths, The Problem of Evil and the Additional Member System for a taste before you buy.
Inner-city London teacher here, serving Religious Education Resources for GCSE/KS4 and KS3 and Politics for A-Level/KS5.
Full of accessible and familiar activities, this shop provides a resource for teachers looking to create a dynamic, challenging and enjoyable classroom. Download a free lesson on the Four Noble Truths, The Problem of Evil and the Additional Member System for a taste before you buy.
This lesson covers the GCSE AQA Specification for Buddhism. Each lesson contains a starter, plenary, one or more activity, literacy and homework suggestions.
I teach them at speed in 50 minutes but I suggest taking the full 55-60 minutes if possible. Some lessons have slightly more content than others and this can be spread out according to your teaching schedule.
All the folders are labelled in order for download but for added clarity the suggested order for the lessons is as follows.
Lesson 1 - The story of Buddha
Lesson 2 - The Four Sights and Asceticism
Lesson 3 - The Enlightenment
Lesson 4 – Dhamma and the 3 Refuges
Lesson 5 – Dependent Arising
Lesson 6 – Dukkha
Lesson 7 – Anicca and Anatta
Lesson 8 – Buddhism Assessment (midway)
Lesson 9 – The Four Noble Truths (pt 1)
Lesson 10 – The Four Noble Truths (pt 2)
Lesson 11- Theravada and Mahayana
Lesson 12 – The Arhat and the Boddhisattva
Lesson 13 – Pure Land Buddhism
Lesson 14 – Buddhist Beliefs Practice Paper GCSE AQA
These lessons should be supplemented with photocopies of relevant sections of the AQA Buddhism textbook or students will have a book themselves.
I hope you enjoy the resources – please review if you do and I will be uploading more RE resources in the future so watch this space!
This lesson covers:
Becoming an Arhat activity
Review of 8 fold path
Becoming a Boddhisattva activity
Types of Boddhisattvas
Essay literacy exercise
Homework suggestion
This is lesson 12 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers the GCSE AQA Specification for Christian Beliefs. Each lesson contains a starter, plenary, one or more activity, literacy and homework suggestions.
I suggest taking the full 55-60 minutes if possible. Some lessons have slightly more content than others and this can be spread out according to your teaching schedule.
All the folders are labelled in order for download but for added clarity the suggested order for the lessons is as follows.
Lesson 1 - The Nature of God
Lesson 2 - The Problem of Evil
Lesson 3 - The Trinity
Lesson 4 – Genesis
Lesson 5 – The Incarnation of Jesus
Lesson 6 – Jesus’ Death
Lesson 7 – Easter: The Resurrection and Ascension
Lesson 8 – Life after Death
Lesson 9 – Sin and Salvation
Lesson 10 – The Afterlife and Judgement
Lesson 11- Heaven and Hell (download for free from shop)
These lessons should be supplemented with relevant sections of the AQA Christianity textbook.
I hope you enjoy the resources – please review if you do and I will be uploading more RE resources in the future so watch this space!
Politics resources are few and far between and often of not very high quality. I have got to a place where I feel confident that using my resources I can get fantastic grades and create great and up to date lessons in Politics. This year I started doing Politics teaching consultancy and it made me aware of how difficult a lot of teachers are finding it to build appropriately challenging, in depth and up to date resources. Now I am making some available.
FREE single sample lesson on Additional Member System from this pack provided for you to get a sense of what you are buying. However, this resource can only be bought as a bundle as it contains a whole unit of work for the topic of UK Politics: Elections. Each lesson reflects and builds upon the next. Alongside resources that I have made, the range of Edexcel Politics textbooks, can support this content alongside a subscription to PreChewed Politics but they are not necessary to make use of the resources. If there are answers in the slide notes to questions that you do not know the answers to, you can produce quick answers by plugging in the questions into ChatGPT but if you follow the lessons in order you should find that the circular nature of the resources means that you are always building on previous knowledge.
These resources are four years in the making, they offer both a great combination of knowledge and skills development and can be altered and adapted as they come in the form of Microsoft/Google friendly documents. I get fantastic results and happy classrooms so I hope you do to.
This contains twelve 1hr lessons (20 files) that match up to the specification
Features and Functions of Electoral Systems (this reflects back on Democracy and Participation).
First Past the Post
Disadvantages of First Past the Post (textbook ref. is core textbook)
Supplementary Vote (SV no longer used in UK and this is up to date in slides)
Additional Member System
Single Transferable Vote
Use of Referenda
Evaluating Referenda (FOR)
Evaluating Referenda (AGAINST)
Debates on why different systems are used (short lesson giving room for reviewing assessment)
Impacts of different electoral systems pt 1
Impacts of different electoral systems pt 2
It also includes relevant class resources, homework suggestions and a final assessment.
Politics resources are few and far between and often of not very high quality. I have got to a place where I feel confident that using my resources I can get fantastic grades and create great and up to date lessons in Politics. This year I started doing Politics teaching consultancy and it made me aware of how difficult a lot of teachers are finding it to build appropriately challenging, in depth and up to date resources. Now I am making some available.
FREE single sample lesson on Additional Member System from this pack provided for you to get a sense of what you are buying. However, this resource can only be bought as a bundle as it contains a whole unit of work for the topic of UK Government: Relations to Branches. Each lesson reflects and builds upon the next. Alongside resources that I have made, the range of Edexcel Politics textbooks, can support this content alongside a subscription to PreChewed Politics but they are not necessary to make use of the resources. If there are answers in the slide notes to questions that you do not know the answers to, you can produce quick answers by plugging in the questions into ChatGPT but if you follow the lessons in order you should find that the circular nature of the resources means that you are always building on previous knowledge.
These resources are four years in the making, they offer both a great combination of knowledge and skills development and can be altered and adapted as they come in the form of Microsoft/Google friendly documents. I get fantastic results and happy classrooms so I hope you do to.
This contains eleven 1hr lessons (19 files) that match up to the specification
The Supreme Court
Supreme Court Case Studies
Judicial Independence
Judicial Neutrality
Powers of the Supreme Court
Relations to branches pt 1
Relations to branches pt 2
Parliamentary Sovereignty
The EU and the UK’s withdrawal
Political Impacts of Leaving the EU
It also includes relevant class resources, student exemplars, homework suggestions and a final assessment.
This lesson covers:
Meditation
Mara
Mara’s Temptations
The three watches
How Buddhists describe Enlightenment
Homework Suggestion
This is lesson 3 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
Please give a nice REVIEW if you found it useful - I would also welcome your constructive feedback.
This lesson covers:
Mandalas
Dependent Arising
The Tibetan wheel of life
Not an easy concept - definitely worth doing some reading to make sure you understand it yourself first.
This is lesson 5 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 50minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Craving and Desire
Overcoming suffering
Nibbana
This is lesson 10 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Key features of Theravada Tradition
Key features of Mahayana Tradition
The five aggregates
Sunyata and the Chariot
Buddha Nature
Quiz
This is lesson 11 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Sukhavati
Pure Land practices
Pure Land and Theravada Comparison Exercise
Revision Suggestions
This is lesson 13 of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This is a lesson that can support the GCSE Buddhism course or it can be a general lesson to help contextualise the Dalai Lama as a spiritual and political leader.
The lesson covers:
Who is the Dalai Lama
The challenges the Dalai Lama faces
Tibetan independence
The challenges of self-immolation
The lesson takes 40-50 minutes to complete.
Trigger warning - this lesson does refer to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks in protest of Tibetan occupation.
If you are interested in more lessons consider my Buddhist beliefs bundle which includes all the content for the GCSE Buddhist Beliefs curriculum.
This lesson covers:
Meditation
Samatha Meditation
Mindfulness
Mind mapping Tool
Homework
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Case Study of The Oakland Buddha
Temple
Shrine
Monastery
Puja
Chanting
Beautiful Work Activity
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Practices.
This lesson is a slightly reduced price as students work independently for about half of the lesson.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Vipassana
Walking Meditation
Zazen
Experiential Activities
Homework
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Theravadan funerals
Funerals in Tibet
Japanese Buddhist Funerals
12 mark Questions
Homework
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Practices specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it. Please see the notes in the power-points to support the teaching of your lesson.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Visualisation
Thangkas
Mandalas
Experiential Learning Activities
Homework
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
This lesson covers:
Festivals and Retreats
Wesak significance and meaning
Wesak Celebrations
Three Activities
Homework on Parnirvana Day
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Practices.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 55 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
If the resource was a success please do leave me a nice REVIEW :)
This lesson covers:
What are the five moral precepts
4 mark questions
Ethical discussion topics
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 55 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
If the resource was a success please do leave me a nice REVIEW :)
This lesson covers:
Ethical discussion
What is Karuna
Equanimity
Buddhist Charity
4 mark and 12 mark essay questions
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Beliefs specification topics.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 55 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.
If the resource was a success please do leave me a nice REVIEW :)
This lesson covers:
What is loving kindness
The four sublime states
How it compares to compassion
12 mark questions
Loving kindness meditation (experiential)
Homework
This is part of a bundle of lessons and homeworks covering the GCSE AQA Buddhism Practices specification topics. Students will need to have touched upon the four sublime states to complete this lesson.
In the bundle there is a mixture of in class activities, comprehension, writing, fun tasks and homework worksheets. Class time is 60 minutes. You can modify the classes to suit your students.
Usually it is suggested you use the AQA Buddhism book to supplement these lessons but for this lesson you can do without it.
If you want to view a sample resource you can download the free Four Noble Truths Resource uploaded.