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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
In order to encourage ratings and reviews, if you buy any of our products, are happy with your purchase, and leave a 5* rating for it: just email us and we'll send you a free bonus gift!
The Philosophy Boxes Method is a new approach to P4C designed for students in KS1, 2 & 3: it is graphically stimulating, engaging, and fun. This download is also suitable for older students: but the format was designed with younger students in mind.
The topic of this Philosophy Boxes download is ‘Who Am I? - The Philosophy of Identiy’.
The download comprises a P4C lesson/session that can be used 2-3 times with the same group.
The aim of Philosophy Boxes is to bring philosophy and critical thinking into every subject at every level: we believe that any subject becomes philosophy when students are asked the right questions and when they think about a topic hard enough and on the deepest (most fundamental) level.
The Philosophy Boxes Method presents students with a set of ‘mystery boxes’, when a student selects one of the boxes they are presented with 1 of 21 discussion/debate activities [that use 1 of 8 different formats].
The presentation has integrated AfL so that teachers can test knowledge at any point in the lesson. There are 10 different AfL slides to choose from.
The design is colourful, animated, fun and engaging: all activities require movement and teachers can decide whether students are expressing their ideas purely verbally or by using post-it notes.
The nature of the design is that it can be used for short sessions (5-10 minutes) or much longer sessions (up to 2 hours!) - it allows for classroom practitioners to be flexible and adaptable. It can, therefore, be used in lessons or as a tutor-time activity.
The download includes a PowerPoint Show; if you would like an editable PPT presentation so that you can make your own ‘Philosophy Boxes’ presentation you will need to download the template here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-the-philosophy-boxes-method-template-for-creating-your-own-philosophy-boxes-lessons-p4c-p4k-11463227
A complete selection of Philosophy Boxes lessons can be found here: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?&q=philosophy+boxes+godwin86
You can also save money by purchasing lessons as bundles.
This lesson is about Christian attitudes to marriage and families, their nature and purpose, as well as contemporary family issues such as polygamy and same-sex marriage and parenting.
It was designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Families & Relationships' theme (Theme A). It is lesson 5/10 of our downloadable unit for this GCSE RS Thematic Study and focuses on Christian views.
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a poster-design/knowledge-hunt task (with images included as well as a comprehensive knowledge hunt), AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
It can easily be used for two lessons or condensed, for advanced learners, into one.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A knowledge hunt activity file (to be printed and put around the room)
-Images for a poser design task
-Printable instructions for poster-design task
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a poster-design+knowledge hunt activity. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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Printing
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This is the thirteenth in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course.
It is designed for AQA and OCR specifications but relevant to all GCSE Hinduism Religious Studies teachers .
The Download (comprising over 3 files, within one zip file) includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet
-A Homework Task
This lesson focuses on different Hindu understandings of the role, forms and importance of the following types of worship:
• Havan or homa
• Puja
• Meditation
• Japa (chanting of mantras, perhaps using a japa mala (rosary))
• Bhajan or kirtan (chanting, music, and dance)
• Darshan
• The role and importance of holy people, including gurus and sadhus/sadhvis
• The role and importance of sacred plants and animals
• Common and divergent emphases given to the sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindi groups
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Sources:
Bhagavad Gita XII 5
The Bhagavad Gita iX 13–14
The Gayatri Mantra
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
We also have learning mats, revision sessions, and much more!
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Enjoy this free resource for GCSE Sociology: it contains links to four sociology-relevant music videos.
It’s just a quick five minute activity and talking point but a fun way to start a lesson :)
Join our Facebook group ‘GCSE Sociology Teachers’: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sociologygcse/
This guide is designed for anyone who has been tasked with starting a new GCSE Sociology course in their school, starting a new department, or teachers who will be using the new GCSE specifications in the coming year.
This download contains practice assessment materials for AQA GCSE Sociology (Crime & Deviance).
It contains 5 exam sections, 5 mark-schemes, and 5 model 12-mark answers.
An ‘exam section’ is half of a full-exam: students should complete it in 50 minutes, making these ideal for assessment lessons.
This download covers the topic of ‘Crime & Deviance’ - you can save money buy buying assessment materials for all four-sections here.
Complete units for GCSE Sociology can be downloaded here.
Please note:
These are not official exam scripts, I do not work for AQA: I have aimed to make reasonable practice exam-questions based on the specimin material already provided. All items are editable: if you think the 12-mark model-answers are too intimidating, feel free to reduce them.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018) - strictly not for re-distribution.
This download contains practice assessment materials for AQA GCSE Sociology (Social Stratification).
It contains 5 exam sections, 5 mark-schemes, and 5 model 12-mark answers.
An ‘exam section’ is half of a full-exam: students should complete it in 50 minutes, making these ideal for assessment lessons.
This download covers the topic of ‘Social Stratification’ - you can save money buy buying assessment materials for all four-sections here.
Complete units for GCSE Sociology can be downloaded here.
Please note:
These are not official exam scripts, I do not work for AQA: I have aimed to make reasonable practice exam-questions based on the specimin material already provided. All items are editable: if you think the 12-mark model-answers are too intimidating, feel free to reduce them.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018) - strictly not for re-distribution.
This A4 double-sided colour worksheet is designed to be given to students when an assessment is returned to them.
It is an assessment reflection, DIRT/AfL, target-setting worksheet.
Complete assessment materials for GCSE Sociology (AQA) can be downloaded here.
Metacognition and philosophy go hand-in-hand because metacognition involves thinking deeply about the nature of thought, learning, knowledge & the mind. For this reason we have put together a comprehensive whole-school philosophy resource whose sole purpose is to make students think deeply about life.
This product comprises twenty philosophical debate and discussion sessions, the following topics are covered:
Animal Rights & Caring for Animals
Art & The Nature of Beauty
Big Issues in Politics
British Values
Caring For The Environment
Celebrating Other Cultures & Religions
Christian Philosophy & Ethics
Citizenship
Computers, Robots & Artificial Intelligence
Epistemology
Ethics & Morality
Friendship, Exclusion & Bullying
Literacy, Reading & The Value of Literature
Metaphysics & The Nature of Reality
Moral & Spiritual Development
Space, Aliens & The Universe
The Biggest Questions in Philosophy
The Philosophy of History
The Philosophy of Maths
“Who Am I?” & The Philosophy of Identity
We hope this collection covers all of the bases in relation to the main fields and central debates of philosophy.
Each session features a variety of debate and discussion prompts. The ‘Philosophy Boxes Method’ presents students with a set of ‘mystery boxes’, when a student selects one of the boxes they are presented with 1 of 21 discussion/debate activities: each uses 1 of 8 different formats. The presentation has integrated AfL so that teachers can test knowledge at any point in the lesson.
There are 10 different plenary/assessments slides to choose from: an integrated menu means teachers can switch to and from AfL tasks easily and at any time. The design is colourful, animated, fun and engaging: all activities require movement and teachers can decide whether students are expressing their ideas purely verbally or by using post-it notes.
The nature of the design makes these sessions highly flexible: each PowerPoint file can be used for short sessions (5-10 minutes) or much longer sessions (up to 2 hours!) - it allows for classroom practitioners to be flexible and adaptable. It can, therefore, be used in lessons or as a tutor-time activity. Most sessions can be used multiple times.
This is an ideal resource to bring P4C (Philosophy for Children) into your school: the range of topics means there’s ‘something for every one’ and that the cross-curricular connections are very broad.
We hold that engaging students in philosophical discussion, debates and thinking is one of the best ways to enhance their critical-thinking skills and Higher-Order Thinking Skills: the metacogntive benefits of philosophy in schools should not be underestimated!
This is our largest set of resources: ‘The Whole-School Metacognition Toolkit’ (Gold Edition) is a comprehensive educational resource suite designed to enhance metacognition and boost learning-power throughout your school.
The downloadable collection includes the following twenty metacognitive education tools:
Metacognition Assemblies (x10)
The Metacognitive Debate Generator
A3 Debate Worksheet Sessions (x5)
DIRT Worksheet Collection (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time)
Meditation, Learning-Power & Deep-Metacognition Resource Pack
A3 Metacognition Personal Reflection Worksheets (x5)
A4 Metacognition Personal Reflection Worksheets (x5)
‘Boosting Brain-Power’ Learning Sessions (Healthy-Living, Caring for the Brain)
The Metacognitive Sticky-Note Challenge (Games & Fun Activities)
Metacognition Knowledge Hunt Sessions (x5)
The Power of Mind-Maps (Includes 10 Resources)
Questioning Skills Training Sessions (x5)
The Whole-School Metacognitive Video-Learning Bundle
Whole-School Philosophy (P4C) Sessions (x15)
Reading Comprehension Tasks for Metacognition (x10)
The Metacognitive Workbook
Motivation - ‘Reasons to Study X’ (Customisable Template)
End-of-Lesson Metacognitive Reflection Mini-Worksheets (x10)
Posters About Metacognition (x10)
Metacognitive Thunks - Philosophical Question Generator
This product is the definitive whole-school metacognition resource. It is ideal for an organised whole-school initiative or as a shared resource teachers can access at their own pace.
The download contains over 250 files and is over 1GB in size: it is a substantial collection of teaching resources. The toolkit is designed for use with students aged 11-16.
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
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Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This KS3 Buddhism homework booklet contains ten homework tasks: it is designed to be printed as a ten page (22 side) booklet.
The booklet serves as a general introduction to Buddhist philosophy and ethics and focuses on essential religious terminology. It should comfortably take care of a term’s worth of homework for any KS3 students studying Buddhism.
The homework booklet includes integrated self-assessment and reflection tasks and a built in assessment table that should make marking the homeworks very quick and easy.
Included is an editable Word (.doc) version and an easy-print (.pdf) version for your convenience.
This is the first in a series of homework booklets we hope to be releasing over the coming months, if you would like to request a specific theme or topic for future releases please get in touch.
Make sure you join our new KS3 RE & P4C community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KS3RE/
A useful discounted bundle of three DIRT resources, suitable for any subject.
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Professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192) . It can now be purchased as a part of a complete 20 x lesson bundle.
This is lesson 3 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Family’ section.
This lesson discusses the functions and roles of the family according to Talcott Parsons.
The download features a .zip file which includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson
-A double-sided worksheet
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new GCSE specification, certainly useful for any GCSE specification however. We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This complete lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Relationships & Families' theme and deals with Buddhist teachings, beliefs and perspectives.
This download includes:
-An editable PowerPoint file
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet (.doc)
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
This lesson is designed to be used with an ICT/Computing Suite: students will need access to computers for this lesson as it is based around them creating a PowerPoint presentation. It is a unit overview lesson.
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Religious Studies resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to contact me: godwin86@gmail.com - if you have any questions or requests.
PLEASE NOTE:
Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This is the sixth of seven fully resourced lessons for GCSE Buddhism Thematic Studies, Theme E 'Religion, Crime & Punishment'. The lesson uses videos and professionally designed video-learning worksheets to provide an overview of Buddhist perspectives on the theme.
It is a great 'instant lesson' and is useful both to RE specialists and as an emergency cover lesson led by non-specialists: all you need to do is print out one of the included worksheets and run the PowerPoint - which will link you to carefully selected videos about the topic.
Aside from links to carefully selected videos; this download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-AfL tasks
-SIX video-learning worksheets (.doc or .pdf)
-A detailed lesson plan
The worksheets are specially designed 'Video-Learning Worksheets' that structure students' learning whilst they use documentary evidence to research a subject: three of the worksheets are A4 and the other 3 are A3 size (all double-sided!).
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Internet Access
Access to YouTube
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the first in our seven-lesson Buddhism unit for Theme F: Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice and compares Buddhist & Christian views about wealth, poverty & inequality. It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Buddhism.
We've made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Buddhism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Buddhism) together to save money!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It's beautiful :) ]
-A comprehensive knowledge-hunt comparing Buddhist & Christian views about crime and criminals
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the second in our seven-lesson Buddhism unit for Theme A: Religion, Relationships & Families and focuses on Buddhist views, teachings and beliefs about premarital sex [sex before marriage]. It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Buddhism.
We've made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Buddhism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Buddhism) together to save money!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It's beautiful :) ]
-A set of A3 group-work debate worksheets
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet and A3 debate worksheets. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
____________________
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the second in our seven-lesson Buddhism unit for Theme E: Religion, Crime & Punishment and focuses on Buddhist views, teachings and beliefs about forgiveness and letting-go of anger (in relation to crime). It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Buddhism.
We've made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Buddhism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Buddhism) together to save money!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It's beautiful :) ]
-A set of A3 group-work debate worksheets
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet and A3 debate worksheets. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
____________________
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the second in our seven-lesson Buddhism unit for Theme F: Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice and focuses on Buddhist views, teachings and beliefs about moral and immoral uses of wealth. It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Buddhism.
We've made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Buddhism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Buddhism) together to save money!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It's beautiful :) ]
-A set of A3 group-work debate worksheets
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet and A3 debate worksheets. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the fourth in our seven-lesson Buddhism unit for Theme F: Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice and compares Buddhist & Christian views, teachings and beliefs about gender equality and the status of women.
It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Buddhism.
We've made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Buddhism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Buddhism) together to save money!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It's beautiful :) ]
-A comprehensive knowledge hunt, comparing Buddhist & Christian views
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017) Contents may differ slightly from those depicted on the cover photo, which are meant to be a fair illustration of the quality and activities contained in the download.
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System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor