AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Hinduism Cosmology revision sheet. This is based on the PIXL approach in which pupils have to reduce, transform and create. Students have some key revision information in the middle of the sheet and key words around the outside. They then reduce the information into their own words and then transform this into an image, before creating some multiple choice questions based on cosmology. Students found this useful as this was a tricky part of the Hinduism course for some pupils. Great for independent revision or study as well as being good for teachers to use as a resource to talk through with students.
AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Question 5 planning sheet. This can be used to help students plan out their answer for a Q5 answer. It is helpful as it gets pupils to plan out what key words and teachings they should use in their answer and then the key arguments for different sides. Students found this helpful to know what to include when they were practising their answers.
AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Peace and Conflict Quotes. These are really useful for revision, work in class, independent study or teacher led activity. My students loved these and said they found them really useful. All the teachings they should need for this unit of work.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christian Beliefs Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christian and Hindu beliefs and practices Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Four documents in total. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams.
New spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Keyword display. This includes over 90 keywords and concepts pupils need to know if they are studying Hinduism for the new GCSE specifications. Could be used as a display or shrunk down and given to pupils to learn.
A key word display for Christianity keywords for the AQA religious new spec 9-1. Over 50 key words in pupil speak which can be used as a room display or shrunk in size and given to pupils to learn.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Keyword Dominoes. Really useful for revision as it has most of the important keywords in Hinduism used in the new GCSE. These can be printed and laminated and used in class or printed and given to pupils to use at home to revise.
PLCs for all four themes and issues of relationships, crime and punishment, peace and conflict and religion and life. I can statements for pupils to RAG themselves at the start of revision and at the end and to also RAG whether they are confident with keywords and key teachings that relate to different topics.
This is focused on Christianity and Hinduism(as the comparative religion) however could be changed easily to whatever religion you teach alongside Christianity.
This could even be given at the beginning of the course and then revisited at the end.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christianity keyword dominoes. Can be printed and laminated and re-used as revision, or printed for pupils to complete on their own and keep or independent revision actvity for homework. Useful as it is most of the keywords needed for the Christian Beliefs and Practices units of work.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams. Useful if pupils are studying Hinduism as one of their religions.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Practices Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams. Useful if pupils are studying Hinduism as one of their religions.
This is a blank template which can be given to students with the task of creating a textbook page on the main topics with the area of pacifism and peacemaking. This can be used in conjunction with the AQA Christianity textbook pages on pacifism or independent research. My students found it really useful to have an overview and it was a good independent study task. Could be used in class or for homework as a flipped class room or consolidation activity.
AQA Religious Studies Model answer for ‘Religious believers should not eat meat.’ Evaluate. This is an answer which would achieve at least in level 4 in the markscheme (between 10-12 marks)
Could be used with students to show them the sort of thing needed for the higher level answers. It uses the religions of Hinduism and Christianity.
A worksheet on the Holocaust which gets students thinking deep about the topic. there are several questions which are linked the the History and SMSC style questions to get pupils considering the Holocaust on a different level.
These are quotes sheets for the new spec AQA RS units of work. It includes Christianity Beliefs, Christianity Practices, Religion and Life, Peace and Conflict, Crime and Punishment and Relationships and Families. They are really useful for independent work, revision or even teacher led activity. My students loved these and said they were one of the most useful things I had made for them. The activity gets them thinking about which areas of the unit they could use the quotes in.
AQA RS Exam practice Honeycomb sheet for religion and Life.
This is useful for students to plan out their exam questions by allowing them practise the easier questions but then also plan out the content, key words and quotes that would be useful for this sort of question.
This is a reflection sheet I made for my GCSE students studying the AQA religious studies new spec (from 2016). It gets pupils to think about how they did and the reflect on this and what they have to do next time.
Hope it is useful!