I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
This lesson focuses on how belief can affect people's actions, focusing on Desmond Doss, a soldier from WWII who refused to fire a single bullet. They explain how his belief affected his action, consider and analyse different viewpoints and evaluate how strictly one should follow their actions. Was designed for an observation lesson.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Bar Mitzvah's. The main part of the lesson involves using resource sheets to complete a set of differentiated questions on the activities building up to a Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony itself, and then consider in a consolidation task why they are important for individual Jews and their communities.
To describe the key features of a Bar Mitzvah.
To explain why these features are important.
To analyse the importance of the ceremony for young Jews and their community as a whole.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Plato's theory of forms. The main part of the lesson involves note-taking and class discussion on the fundamentals of his theory, after which they carry out an independent reading task. This is followed by students analysing the criticisms of his theory followed by a traffic light plenary task.
Learning Objectives:
To understand Plato’s Theory of Forms.
To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the theory.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated set of lessons in order to carry out a survey around a school environment to decide the best site for a new wind turbine (you will need to amend the material slightly so it is suited to your own school). It can act as end-of-unit assessment on energy.
The first lesson helps students to prepare for the wind turbine survey, paying particular attention to the physical and environmental factors that can influence the location of wind turbines.
The second lesson involves students going around a school environment, in groups, collecting their wind turbine data. Recording sheets are provided for students.
The third lesson involves students writing up their report to show the results of their survey.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the different sources that comprise the total world’s energy mix. The main part of the lesson involves students producing a mind map of different energy sources which is developed in stages (initially in pairs writing down sources they are aware of, then using a video clip to add further sources and relevant facts with teacher input, then labelling into renewable and non-renewable sources), followed by a worksheet task classifying statements into advantages/disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, finished with students using a table of data to answer questions about the world’s current energy mix.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different sources of energy.
To explain the advantages and disadvantages of these sources.
To investigate how energy sources are used around the world.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the use of biofuels as a renewable energy source. The main part of the lesson involves students working in pairs to discuss what biofuels might be and how they may be used to generate electricity (aided by visual cues), a colour coding task on the advantages and disadvantages of using biofuels, and the use of a mini case study for students to explore whether biofuels are ultimately an effective source of energy (including a video clip about Virgin Atlantic proposing to use jumbo jets powered by nuts, and an extended writing exercise).
Learning Objectives:
To describe what biofuels are.
To explain their advantages and disadvantages.
To evaluate whether they ultimately provide an effective energy source.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the factors that influence climate. In the main part of the lesson students complete a timed carousel activity to make notes (including a labelled diagram) on how each factor (altitude, distance from the sea, latitude, wind direction) can influence climate, followed by a set of written questions to consolidate their learning.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different factors that can influence the climate.
To explain their influence through the use of labelled diagrams.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how we can we protect communities from coastal erosion. The main part of the lesson involves a fact-hunting exercise where students compile a table with how each methods works as well as its advantages and disadvantages, followed by a a written exercise where students rank each defence in terms of its percieved effectiveness and justify their choices.
Learning Objectives:
To explain how various defences protect the coast.
To assess the effectiveness of different forms of coastal defences.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Christian Creation Story from Genesis. The main part of the lesson involves drawing a storyboard to show the key parts of the story, a pair discussion task on how Fundamentalist and Liberal Christians might view the story (leading to a card sorting task of the reasons behind the views), and finally a written reflection evaluating how they believe the story is best understood.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the Christian Creation Story.
To explain how this story is viewed by different Christians.
To evaluate how you personally believe it is best understood.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introduction lesson on coasts. In the main part of the lesson students use a stimulus image to generate their own definition of what a coastline is, carry out a image analysis of different coastlines around the room (open-ended but focused questions for students to generate their ideas) and lastly a ranking exercise on different reasons why the coastline is important for people.
Learning Objectives:
To identify what a coastline is.
To describe the key features that make up a coastline.
To explain why coastlines are important.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated revision lesson on arguments for the existence of God, namely the Teleological Argument, Cosmological Argument and Ontological Argument. Main activities in the lesson include a mind mapping task and an essay planning task. It is designed to support the 'Philosophy of Religion' component AS-Level 'OCR Religious Studies' specification.
Learning Objectives:
To explain the key arguments for the existence of God.
To evaluate the overall credibility of their arguments.
This contains a fully resourced lesson on Plato's analogy of the cave. It contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives:
To describe the story of Plato’s cave.
To explain how the story questions our idea of reality.
To understand the symbolism of Plato’s ideas in The Matrix.
Has worked very well with my classes. It is ideally aimed at KS4, but can easily be adapted for KS3.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Design argument aimed at KS3 students. It could very easily be adapted to suit KS4. The main activities include:
* A discussion task on how the natural world and universe itself can show evidence of design (facts are provided as a stimulus and focus)
* Reading through Paley's watch story (analogy) as a class and completing an ordering task (could easily be adapted to a card sort!?)
* Writing their own modern story of the argument to demonstrate understanding.
* Assessing the potential problems with the argument, using visual clues to assist them.
Lesson Objectives:
To describe how the world around us can show evidence of design.
To explain the key features of the design argument.
To assess potential problems with the argument.
This contains a fully resourced lesson, differentiated lesson on whether religion is important in the 21st Century. It is done by considering the fictional scenario that it has been proven that God does not exist, and therefore neither does religion. They complete a group discussion and brainstorming exercise, compile notes and produce a newspaper report on their findings.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the positive and negative effects of religion.
To explain the possible effects of a world without religion.
To evaluate whether the world would be a better place without religion.
This contains a fully resourced lesson on how the climate of the UK varies. The main component of the lesson involves choropleth mapping to show how temperature and rainfall varies between winter and summer. Extension tasks are included throughout.
Learning Objectives:
To describe what the climate of the UK is like.
To explain the reasons for these differences.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Augustianian theodicy. The main part of the lesson involves an information hunt answering key questions on the Augustinian theodicy, a ranking task on the strengths of the theodicy, then a sorting task of the weaknesses of the theodicy into different categories (moral/scientific/logical), before producing a bullet-pointed essay plan on the overall success of the theodicy.
This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.
A group task where students have to decide on the right course of action presented to them during their stay on the island. A good way to introduce this task is to show the clip of the plane crash from the first season of LOST to get them emotionally involved within it.
