New and Updated for 2019-2020:
26 lessons with powerpoints, worksheets and resources - including model answers, homeworks and revision resources.
AQA content but can be adapted to other specs.
PLUS 13 revision lessons (39 lessons total!)
I taught the unit in 2X 85 minute lessons per week.
Some lessons use Denise Cush’s Buddhism: A Student’s Approach to World Religions and Peter Harvey: An Introduction to Buddhism - pages from these texts are used in some lesson activities.
A lesson on the concept of authority/Risalah and Prophethood in Islam. Presentation and worksheets included, plus worksheets in Spanish for EAL students.
This unit of work was created as a RE unit for a nurture group of year 7s and 8s, however all students were working at a KS2 year 3/4 level and so this unit would also be appropriate for secondary teachers. Some existing TES resources have been adapted here to help suit this low ability - bundle includes presentations and worksheets for 6 85 minute lessons. The lessons use a "universal symbols" code to aid SEN understanding - these symbols are explained in a separate ppt.
2 lessons exploring a variety of theological views on the conscience - resources include tables to fill in, multiple choice quiz and scholarly views that are broken down and easily digestible.
Please note that one activity on Aquinas uses the AQA Year 2 textbook, but the rest of the activities are fully resourced here.
2 lessons with resources focusing on the context that led to the ordination of Theravada nuns, and the debate surrounding whether or not the ordination should have been reinstated in 1996 - including the work of Sakyadita Organisation and Dhammananada Bhikkuni. AQA 2A Buddhism Year 2 content.
A lesson and knowledge organizer homework preparing students for the Conscience module of AQA Year 2 RE A Level Ethics (new spec). This lesson was taught in 85 minutes and the KO was set as half term homework.
Fill in the gaps knowledge organisers, with thorough (8,000) word document containing all key knowledge for Year 1 AQA A Level RE Buddhism (paper 2A). This can be used in conjunction with key questions and a Sanskrit/Pali glossary to ensure that students are fully comprehending key religious content.
Lesson focusing on the different debates surrounding sexual behaviours in Buddhism, with fully resourced power point, for use in AQA Paper 2A Buddhism Year 13/Year 2. Unit = Buddhism, gender and sexuality.
Lesson with PPT and resources focusing on the value of science in Buddhism. Lesson covers the following points on the AQA spec:
The Buddha’s approach to unanswerable questions.
Similarities between Buddhism and Quantum Physics.
Scholarly views of 14th Dalai Lama and Thitch Nhat Hahn.
Please note that there is an OPTIONAL starter activity on modern science which uses pages from the AQA New A Level textbook, so you will need a copy of this book.
Essay question for homework included.
A powerpoint and knowledge organiser to consolidate learning for Buddhism and Science AQA unit (Paper 2A, RE A Level). Fully resourced. Could be adapted to another spec.
A fully resourced revision lesson for AQA RE A Level, plus a fill-in-the-gaps knowledge organiser for students to complete as they go or for homework. fully resourced, ready to teach.
Lesson for AQA 2A RE A level. Lesson focusing on how secularisation in the British context has challenged Buddhism. Content covered:
what is secularisation?
how have moral authorities been replaced by science and rationalism?
Buddhism being relegated to the personal sphere.
the effect of militant atheism.
Lesson for AQA RE A Level Paper 2A secualrisation content, but could be adapted for others specs. fully planned and resourced, considering arguments for an against wealth in Buddhism, and how Buddhists view materialistic values of secular society.
A lesson exploring the contemporary Triratna and Secular Buddhism movements. Fully resourced and ready to teach with chance for interactive evaluation - can be adapted to other specs but designed for AQA 2A RE A Level Year 2 content on Buddhism and Secularisation.
2 lessons on one powerpoint, focusing on socially engaged Buddhism and how the work of socially engaged Buddhism can be examined in an exam context, and comparison between the ideas of Batchelor (that Buddhism is not a religion) and Brazier (that Buddhism is a religion) with wider reading and exam context. There is also a Knowledge Organiser for the whole AQA unit on Secularisation.
With thanks to other TES authors whose ideas helped with this.
An overview lesson with corresponding worksheet to help students recap the theodicies that respond to the Problem of Evil (logical and evidential) with a crib sheet for students to fill in. A level (AQA) Unit 1 Philosophy and Ethics
Everything students need to known for AQA RE A Level Natural Moral law in a handy double page spread. All A01 and A02 content is covered, with practise questions based on AQA assessment resources.
This unit of work has been created to offer and introduction and context for the new RE GCSE, and thus is assessed in the style of GCSE assessments. However, it provides a more creative and in depth look at Christian beliefs and practices that is suitable for a Year 9/high ability KS3 group. There is a creative formative assessment (writing a modern day parable) to reflect this, as well as a GCSE style summative assessment with marks scheme.
This unit is fully resourced, but please note there are some activities that use the new AQA GCSE 9-1 text book, and some activities that use the Hodder Education Christianity Religious Studies A text book. However, the unit can be taught without these activities.
Credit to free resources from RE Today in lesson 1-3, and an excellent free Tes resource on Pilgrimage (apologies, cannot find name of seller, but this is work that was shared on Tes previously).
A series of 13 lessons with curriculum plan and knowledge organiser for revision homeworks. Key content for Unit 1, Christian Beliefs, suitable for AQA spec but would also be adaptable to other exam boards.
Whilst most resources are provided, please note that these lessons do utilise both the approved AQA GCSE 9-1 textbook, and the new Hodder Education Religious Studies A Christianity text book, so people teaching these lessons as they are will need access to both of these books for some activities.