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 is a full unit for the 9-1 AQA GCSE RS course. Please consult individual lesson pages (uploaded individually) for detail on each.
The lessons are designed to be taught as doubles but are easily adaptable to squeeze into shorter periods (as I do because we have an odd timetable)
I recommend doing them in this order, the lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1: Nature of God
Lesson 2: The Trinity
Lesson 3: Creation
Lesson 4: Incarnation and Son of God
Lesson 5: The crucifixion
Lesson 6: Resurrection and ascension
Lesson 7: Sin, Salvation and Atonement
Lesson 8: Heaven and Hell
Lesson 9: Problem of Evil
I’ve also included the keywords revision card game.
Many of the lessons have timers and videos embedded, the videos take a few seconds to load, if they don’t work simply reopen the power point.
I’ve kept the pricing low, all of us work hard for our money.
Thank you!
This is a very detailed Scheme of Work for Christianity and Islam sections of the AQA Short Course, it is designed to be taught on roughly 2 hours a fortnight but can be adapted easily.
Included are lesson activity ideas and guidance on content.
It covers both Christianity and Islam beliefs.
This lesson looks at the growth (or decline) of the church in the UK as well as the rapid growth of the church across the rest of the world. It goes into detail on CFAN, using a video from their website. The video shows people falling over in the Holy Spirit so please be aware and do make a teaching point out of the beliefs in the video.
My complete GCSE Islam unit. Lots of information on each powerpoint, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable to include more active learning activities as per your style of teaching. Lots of practice exam questions in each lesson.
Also included are to massive question banks for each subunit and a Keywords card game (easily adaptable to flash cards)
Beliefs:
Lesson 1: Sunni Shi’a Split
Lesson 2: Tawhid - oneness of God
Lesson 3: Nature of God and Supremacy of God’s will
Lesson 4: Predestination.
Lesson 5: Angels
Lesson 6: Life after death
Lesson 7: Prophets
Lesson 8: Qur’an and Holy books.
Practices
Lesson 1 – Introduction 5 pillars, 10 Obligatory Acts, Shahadah
Lesson 2 – Salah
Lesson 3 – Sawm
Lesson 4 – Zakah
Lesson 5 – Hajj
Lesson 6 – Id-ul-Fitr Id-ul-Adha
Lesson 7 - Jihad
Lesson 8 - Ashura
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
There are videos embedded using the web player app. You need to click to activate the plug in on the embed. Sometimes they don’t work but normally reloading the PPT solves the problem!
Also including the key words booklet to go with the unit, Unit overview and revision work book
This is a really fun couple of lessons, aimed at KS3 Y8-9. They take the role of investigators, looking into detailed 'case files' which include eye-witness testimonies, scientific reports and images. There are also videos contained within the power point.
Topics include reincarnation, NDE, Mediums/Ghosts.
I would recommend turning out the lights, have some lamps or fairy lights (at least initially) and play the X files music while the students come in. They get really excited and enjoy it.
I'd also recommend photocopying onto sugar paper to add to the effect, printing each activity on different colour helps too.
This is what I've started using with my exam classes. We're using FFAACE for the structure of the answer
For
For (religious)
Against
Against (religious)
Conclude & Evaluate
The idea is that at least two arguments should be religious rather than just sociological or other.
We are using PEEEL for each paragraph
Point
Evidence
Explanation
Evaluation
Link (to question)
If all students follow this pattern then it should make it easier for them and bring their grade up as they will inevitably meet the criteria for the higher levels.
thanks for looking!
A level lesson on Aquinas' Natural Moral Law, originally used as a revision lesson but easily works for a standard lesson, probably enough content to run over 2-3 hours of teaching on.
Based on the new AQA A level but caters well enough for previous exam boards specs.
Content covers key elements such as:
Background/history
Key features (absolutist/deontological)
Theory - Telos, Eudaimonia
4 Laws
Precepts
Interior/exterior acts
Double effect.
PLEASE REVIEW :)
In this lesson we explore the issue of gender equality. It looks at what it is and what it look/ doesn’t look like. A provocative starter includes images of 1950s sexist adds given out, great for getting discussion going.
The lesson focuses on how Christians perceive gender difference as a good thing, but that it might mean there are different but equal roles men and women should play. It looks at the reasons why some Christians think this and why some do not.
Lots of opportunity for discussion throughout.
This bundle includes my keyword revision game for themes B,C,D,E,F AND Christianity and 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.
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 1 sided - 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
Extended lesson power point on the Free Will Defence theodicy, with reference to Mackie and Plantinga's arguments.
Also included are sort cards for Mackie's arguments.
Please rate and review.
The lesson includes activities and homework for the first topic in the beliefs section - the Nature of God.
It covers the 3 key ideas - omnipotence, benevolence and just.
It introduces students to exam technique.
This large lesson covers both Eids. There are also exam questions included. For Id-ul-Adha I have included some links to environmental ethics, you may not wish to show some of these images to you class or go down that road, but I found my year 10s really got into a debate about whether it was necessary to sacrifice that many animals today.
Lengthy ppt on process theology, follows the AQA A level Text Book - Has activity that is designed to really stretch students.
This is available bundled with other Problem of Evil lessons (£6)
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
There are videos embedded using the web player app. You need to click to activate the plug in on the embed. Sometimes they don’t work but normally reloading the PPT solves the problem!
Also including the key words booklet to go with the unit.
Lesson 1: Origins of the Universe
Lesson 2: Value of the world
Lesson 3: The Environment and Pollution
Lesson 4: Use of Animals
Lesson 5: Abortion
Lesson 6: Euthanasia
A brief introduction to the main concepts of Judaism, used engaging videos.
Themes introduced include covenant and Law.
It explores the idea of the Judaism both as a religion and as 'Jewishness' - ethnic Judaism. That of a people belonging to God, agreeing to keep God's holy commands.
Introduction to Fletcher's Situation Ethics.
This has a couple of activities but is designed as a power point where the teacher can interactively explain and elaborate on the slides.
The PPT looks at the context of SE and raises the concepts of legalism and antinomianism.
