Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
Knowledge Organisers for Religious Experience
A level Religious Studies
AQA but could also be used for other exam boards
Visions
Otto
James
Stace
Verifying Religious Experiences
Swinburne
Religious Experience and Walter Stace
Non-sensuous and non-intellectual union with the divine
Main aims of this lesson are:
To explore what non-sensuous and non-intellectual union is
To understand who Stace is and what he says about experiences
To understand Stace’s 7 parts of religious experience
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Notes for the carousel on the 7 parts of Stace’s religious experience
Knowledge Organisers for Arguments for the Existence of God
A level Religious Studies
AQA but could also be used for other exam boards
The Ontological Argument
The Design Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Free Will defence as presented by Mackie and Swinburne
Aims of the Lesson:
Recall the defence to the Problem of Evil.
Explore the Free Will defence.
Religious Experience as Numinous and Otto’s ‘holy’
Main aims of this lesson are:
To explore what numinous is
To understand who Otto is and what he says about experiences
To know and be able to use terms such as sui generis and mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
The influence of religious experience on the experiencer
Belief ‘in’ vs belief ‘that’
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the influence of religious experience
To understand the difference of belief ‘in’ and belief ‘that’ according to H.H Price
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Belief in and that worksheet
Blank worksheet
Challenges to Religious Experiences
The responses to these challenges
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the challenges to Religious Experience
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Match up task for challenges and responses
Challenges pack
Responses pack
A number of resources to cover the Arguments for the existence of God (Cosmological, Ontological and Design Arguments). Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Design Argument
-Introduction to Philosophical Proofs
-Paley’s Design Argument
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument with focus on Hume
-Extra content focussed on Swinburne and Tennant
Cosmological Argument
-The Four Causes
-The Cosmological Argument
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument with focus on Hume and Russell
Ontological Argument
-Introduction to the Ontological Argument
-Anselm’s Ontological Argument with reference to Proslogian 1 and 2
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ontological Argument with focus on Gaunilo and Kant
-Extra content focussed on Plantinga, Frege and Russell
Realist Views of Miracles
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the realist view of miracles
To discuss the problems with the realist views of miracles
To create a set of notes on the problems of miracles
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Activity booklet on Realist Miracles with examples
Scientific Realism and Realism for miracles comparison sheet
The problems with ‘natural laws’ worksheet
Religious Langauge Module
A number of resources to cover Religious Language created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Religious Language
Language as analogy
Language as a blik
Language as cognitive or non-cognitive
Language as symbolic
The Falsification Principle
The Verification Principle
Hick’s eschatalogical verification
Wittgensteins language games
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire religious language module
Introduction to Religious Language
Main aims of this lesson are:
To discuss what death is
To understand the differing views on what happens to the soul
To begin to understand dualism and monism
Contains:
Assisting powerpoint
Key Words
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet for the Origins and Meanings Module.
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for Route B (the Catholic paper)
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheets for all 5 modules on the Route B Course.
Each Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet for the Life and Death Module.
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for Route B (the Catholic paper)
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet for the Sin and Forgiveness Module.
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for Route B (the Catholic paper)
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what the Dualism is
To understand Aristotle’s argument and the difference between Plato and Aristotle
To begin to understand Descartes arguments
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Aristotle V plato
Notes on Descartes
Homework
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what the Dualism is
To understand Plato’s argument
To understand the allegory of the cave and the world of the forms
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Plato
The Allegory of the cave
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for the Judaism module so can be used for Route A and B
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section - Cartesian Dualism
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Cartesian Dualism is
To begin to look at the strengths and weaknesses of Descartes Arguments
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Descartes X2
Workshet
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what kind of personal existence after death there could be
To understand Hick’s replica theory
To understand the strengths and weaknesses of Hick’s theory
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Hick
Worksheet