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High Quality resources! 15 Lessons that are designed to achieve an ‘outstanding’ using inspection guidance. Included in this pack is: Christian Denominations: his is a Grab & Go Lesson! Zero prep. It is the 4th in the series of resources we are creating for the new RS GCSE. This pack includes: PowerPoint: 34 slides Resource Booklet: 15 Sheets. This lesson is designed to be an overview of the main Christian denominations. The starter activity is based on our Stop the Clock activity on prior learning of Christian key words. This is a really fun activity, pupils love it! Thinking Skills Task: There are 8 slides on the PPT that take pupils through the basics of 8 Christian denominations. It is recommended that these be printed out and either laminated or given to pupils for this Task. Pupils must cut out the statements provided and categorise them on the Christian Denominations placemat (Print this out as A3 to ensure that there is enough room for all of the statements) Religious Vocabulary: Pupils have opportunity to use the Religious Studies Vocabulary Booklet to add any additional Key Words they learn during the lesson. Homework Activity: Working in groups of three, pupils must create a teaching aid on the Christian Denominations. Plenary activity: Trump this! There are 12 cards based on the denominations studied during the lesson. The Trinity: This is a Grab & Go Lesson! Zero prep. It is the 5th in the series of resources we are creating for the new RS GCSE. However, it can easily be used with KS3. This pack includes: PowerPoint: 20 slides Resource Booklet: 5 Sheets. This lesson is designed to be an introduction to the concept of the Trinity. Starter activity: Pupils are tasked with making an acrostic poem based on prior learning of three key words. Summarise Task: Pupils are given information about the Trinity and asked to summaries this on an A4 map. There is also a link to a youtube video on the Trinity. They will then be required to condense their learning even more into one paragraph. Religious Vocabulary: Pupils have opportunity to use the Religious Studies Vocabulary Booklet to add any additional Key Words they learn during the lesson. Homework Activity: To research facts about Jesus in preparation for their next lesson. Plenary activity: Tweet it. The Last week of Jesus’ Life: Pupils are provided with six events in the last week of Jesus’ life and are tasked with ordering them correctly and writing a sentence about each event. The attached PowerPoint takes you through the narrative with sentences for the lower ability pupils. Enjoy! Introduction to Christianity: This lesson is designed to be a summary of some of the key concepts of Christianity. The starter activity is based on our Conveyor Belt activity and is designed to ascertain pupil prior knowledge. Pupils have to complete a peer assessment task based on this also. This PowerPoint has interactive features in the form of a ‘Fidget Spinner Selector’ whereby different religious concepts can be randomly selected. There is a Christianity placemat that is designed to be enlarged to A3 size for pupils to make notes as they progress through the lesson. Pupils have opportunity to use the Religious Studies Vocabulary Booklet to add any additional Key Words they learn during the lesson. Additionally, There is an order activity on the Apostles Creed that can be printed out and laminated for pupils to complete should you wish. The plenary activity is our Rainbow Game interactive activity. There are 20 questions provided for pupils to take part in a class quiz prior to exiting the lesson. Jesus- This is your life (2 hour resource): This is a Grab and Go Lesson! Zero prep. It was originally planned to span a 2 hour double lesson, but can easily be split into a series of lessons. It can most definitely be used @ KS3 too! This pack includes: PowerPoint: 73 slides!!! Resource Booklet: 9 Sheets. This lesson is designed to be an overview of the life of Jesus. Starter activity: Give me 5 activity Summary of Task: Pupils are asked to draw what they think Jesus looked like and then watch a 5 min clip on what he probably looked like. There is a handy diagram illustrating the life of Jesus too. Pupils are taken through some facts about his lifestyle. Beat the Teacher: The next task pupils have to find Biblical references about the Messiah (Bibles are needed for this activity). Jesus, this is your life (in 10 mins) The PPT guides pupils through the life of Jesus and the main events that occurred. There is a match up activity on the names of Jesus and a HW task on the I am sayings. Plenary is our Moo or False activity-pupils absolutely love this!! Religious Vocabulary: Pupils have opportunity to use the Religious Studies Vocabulary Booklet to add any additional Key Words they learn during the lesson. Homework Activity: To research facts about Jesus in preparation for their next lesson. The Existence of God: The Existence of God. This is a ‘Grab & Go’ Lesson-Zero prep Required and is designed to get pupils thinking about the existence of God through the Ontological Theory. Included: PowerPoint (53 slides) & Work booklet (10 pages) This lesson slots into any year 9 SoW or can be used alongside our GCSE resources designed for the new specification. (This is lesson 5 in the range). This can either be a fast paced 60 minutes or span two lessons. Giving pupils the initial lesson to research and plan and then the second lesson as a P4C lesson to thoroughly debate this topic. It is a fully resourced lesson with PowerPoint and worksheets with a card sort sheet that can either be printed and pupils can cut the information out to stick in their books or you can laminate the cards for group tasks. There is also a help sheet included on how to come up with a convincing argument. Homework: Pupils have to research famous Theist, Atheist and Agnostics and their principles along with some very important religious vocabulary. The aim is for pupils to come up with plausible arguments whether there is or is not a God (using the Ontological Theory as evidence) and to present this in a group discussion. The History of Christianity: This is a Grab & Go Lesson! Zero prep. This lesson is designed to be a summary of some of the key events in Christian history. It is the 3rd in the series of resources we are creating for the new RS GCSE. The starter activity is based on our the fidget spinner activity from last lesson and is designed to ascertain pupil understanding of last lesson’s topic. There is a Fidget Spinner Placemat that is designed to be enlarged to A3 size for pupils to make notes as they progress through the starter activity. There is also a fidget spinner sheet (without space for notes) that you can print in colour and laminate for classroom use. Pupils have opportunity to use the Religious Studies Vocabulary Booklet to add any additional Key Words they learn during the lesson. Additionally, There is an order activity on key events in the Bible and Christianity to date. There are lots of events included to give you the option to use them all or select the events that you would like to include in your own lessons. The plenary activity is our Emoji Graph. Pupils are asked to choose some of the key events in Christian history and create an emoji graph based on this. The number of events for them to choose has been left to your discretion depending on the ability of the class. This PPT also includes a video link to Christianity in our society today. The Death of Jesus: This is an interactive guide surrounding some of the key concepts used to explain the reasons for Jesus’ sacrifice. Pupils will have use of a poem, Biblical quotes and these key terms to discuss, analyse and select the most relevant information relating to the beliefs about death in Christianity. They will then be tasked with answering an exam style question: “Explain why the death of Jesus is important? (4)” Life after Death Quotes: This is a single resource sheet that includes Biblical quotes that are based on life after death. We usually give these to pupils at the beginning of the topic so that they can refer to them when we are studying different aspects of the beliefs, teachings and practices that surround death. This is particularly useful when pupils are answering exam style questions. They can refer to this sheet to help them support their answers with Biblical teachings. We hope that you enjoy this resource! We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes TeachElite’s Shop click the’Follow this Author button’ . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload.

A massive bundle of 20 Christmas PowerPoints and Worksheets. This is everything you will need to keep your classes educated and entertained in the way of Christmas this season! Including recommended resources by the TES team! Included is: Christmas Bingo: A bingo activity for the Christmas season. Christmas Countdown Timer: A Christmas themed countdown timer with 10 minutes on each slide. Christmas Quiz: Three rounds. Consisting of Religious, popular culture (Secular) and Music. Please not that music hasn’t been added due to copyright, but you may add your own onto the slides provided. Christmas Secular or Religious Conveyor Belt activity: This is based on the Generation Game activity. This is based on religious and secular items surrounding the Christmas season. Useful for Starter, Plenaries and mini AFL activities throughout the lesson-Pupils love this activity! Christmas Symbols: Pictures to use for a diamond ranking activity on Symbols of Christmas and a task is based on the symbols of Christmas and their meanings. Pupils then peer assess each otters using two stars and a wish. also, A diamond ranking activity based on the symbols of Christmas-three worksheets for higher, middle and lower ability. Christmas Hunt The Symbol-Join Park Ranger Paul as he hunts for the artefacts. Pupils have to write down every item they see. Then decide whether each item is a religious or non-religious (secular) tradition. Christmas-Elf Daily Report Card: Keep a check on your pupils’ behaviour this Christmas with these Elfish Behaviour cards. Print out and handout as an exit pass at the end of the day. A fun way to instill work ethic and sound behaviour in the run up to Christmas. Does Santa Exist? Class Survey-A whole class activity based on Santa. pupils have to ask 10 peers the question ‘Does Santa exist?’ and record their responses. Then create a pie chart on the results. Elfish Behaviour Advent Chart:Keep a check on your class’ behaviour this Christmas with these individual Elfish Behaviour charts. Print out the three reward stamps and issue one to each child every day in accordance with their behaviour. A fun way to instill work ethic and sound behaviour in the run up to Christmas! Recommended Resource! Naughty or Nice Gauge: A Fun activity for Christmas!! A visual PowerPoint display that you can use with your classes for behaviour management. I have included an editable and an uneducable version purely due to the fonts I have used. There are also naughty, improvement and nice certificates that can be printed out and given to the child to take home. These can be edited on the PowerPoint if yo wish to add a reason for certification, for example. A PDF version is available for ease of printout also. Reverse Advent Challenge: A tutor time Advent activity based on donation and charity. Can be amended to incorporate the whole class or pupils can be spilt into six groups and each group can complete their own Reverse Advent Challenge. Space Mission Christmas Edition: Join Space Explorer Steve as he hunts for the artefacts. Pupils have to write down every item they see. Then decide whether each item is a religious or non-religious (secular) tradition and a worksheet to accompany the Space Mission Christmas Edition PPT Please leave a comment if you have the time, it would be much appreciated. Also Check out our Nativity bundle! Available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-nativity-11423425

Judaism : Judaism Revision This Bundle is designed to help you and your pupils with that last minute cramming needed for the GCSE Judaism exam! The resources included are: Pre-Exam Last Minute Tips!! GCSE Judaism Last Minute Revision session: This PowerPoint is designed to be delivered during a 15-20 minute session just before the pupils enter the exam room. It has a few handy hints and tips for pupils to use, that it is hoped, will be fresh in their minds during the exam. GCSE Judaism Flashcards: A set of flash cards based on the WJEC Specification A Judaism paper. Past paper questions with specific content. Included in this resource is a topic overview sheet for teacher and pupil. This is basically a breakdown each topic we teach for this course. Death & Afterlife according to Judaism-Key Concepts: An activity sheet based on the key words used to revise about death and the Afterlife according to Judaism. Judaism Rites of Passage Revision Booklet: A Grab and Go Resource! Zero Prep Required. This is booklet with is really useful to sum up rites of passage. Pupils can be given a a few lessons to research, use their existing work and complete the worksheets within the booklet. They are then tasked with creating their very own revision aid on the topic. We usually collect these in and photocopy them and distribute to the class as a handy home revision summary. The Booklet includes information and worksheets on the four main rites of passage: Brit Milah, Bar Mitzvah, Marriage, Death. Also Included: The role of the parents in these and a page in which there are arguments for which rite of passage is superior (to answer a specific exam style question). To view the contents of this booklet, please check out our sample available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/judaism-rites-of-passage-revision-booklet-sample-11586091

GCSE Christianity Revision - FULL Component 1 & 2 REVIEW THIS RESOURCE AND GET ANOTHER ONE FOR FREE! [Click here if you would like to download the full GCSE Route A Christianity Pack.](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-gcse-revision-full-component-1-and-2-christianity-11839046) Eduqas GCSE Revision This is a bundle of ALL OF the 4 components for Eduqas route A Unit 1 & Unit 2 Christianity. This is an exam question generator bundle of resources for namely: Unit 2: Christianity Unit 1: Relationships Good Vs Evil Human Rights Life after Death This is a great resource for getting pupils thinking about how exam questions are formulated. It is designed to get pupils into the mindset of the chief examiner to see how they could word questions based on the 4 questions that are in the exam (a-d Key Words, Describe, Explain & Evaluate). This is also great for revision and keeping pupils ‘on their toes’ as the topic and questions that come up are random. You can copy and paste the Exam Question Generator slide into any presentation you wish or use the slide as a standalone resource. With these 5 resources there are 1092 question possibilities If you like this resource check out... [Christianity Revision - Knowledge organiser](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christianity-revision-knowledge-organiser-11756162) [Revision session Toolkit](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revision-revision-lesson-toolkit-11813060) There are many more resources that you will love in our [shop.](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeachElite) We hope that you enjoy this resource! If you review this resource we will give you another resource of the same value for FREE. We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes TeachElite's Shop click the'Follow this Author button' . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload. You can find us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TeachEliteRE) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/TeachElite/)

Human Rights : Human Rights Bundle Here is a selection of all resources you’ll need for Human Rights day on 10th December. Resources include: Assembly & Tutor Time : Human Rights: This resource pack contains + 1x Assembly and 1 x tutor time PPT that can extend over two sessions . All PowerPoints are fully resourced with YouTube links and activities to discuss the topic in question. Assembly pack contains a PPT (10 Slides) and a handout for you to make notes on each slide should you so wish. The assembly introduces pupils to human rights and the origins of the Un declaration . It includes a link to a YouTube clip educating them on this. This resource includes inspirational quote and an OPTIONAL Christian prayer. Tutor Time pack contains 1 x Fully Resourced PPT (15 slides in total) Worksheets (7 A4 sheets) The Topics to be discussed are: What are human rights? The origins of human rights, a diamond 9 activity and a discussion on the most important human rights The resource booklet to accompany this pack contains a blank learning mat for pupils to take notes on the topic discussions and clips that they will watch. Human Rights: This is a 1 hour fully resourced lesson on Human Rights.This Human Rights Lesson pack contains: A PPT (15 slides) and a peer assessment handout (12 sheets). Activities include: Starter Task: A Thinking Skills questions-on human rights. Task 1: Pupils are discuss the rights of a human being. Task 2: Pupils are taken through the concept of human rights. Task 3: Pupils will need to write as many questions using the 5W sheet as the an think of and then use the interactive 5W generator to discuss these questions. Task 4: Pupils should then watch the YouTube clip and fill in the second 5 w sheet with answers to the questions discussed and any information from the clip that they deem important. Task 5: Pupils should read the UN Declaration of Human Rights (2 versions included depending on ability) and highlight any key points. Task 6: In pairs or groups pupils should come up with their own 10 declaration for human rights. Homework: Pick a current issue that is in the news. Report on which human rights aren’t being followed and why. Also state what could be done to combat this. Exit task/Plenary: Choose a representative to speak to the UN on behalf of your group to deliver your 10 Human Rights. Human Rights Debate Generator: This is a FULLY INTERACTIVE resource that has been professionally designed to spark debate surrounding the United Nations Declaration for Human Rights. Included in this resource is a worksheet that pupils can either use to formulate questions that have been generated by the Debate Generator or to write bullet pointed answers. It is suggested that these be printed as A3 handouts. The PPT slide can be copied and pasted into any lesson or can be used a s a stand alone resource. Click on the spin button to start the selector and the stop button to stop it. You can reset the selector at any time to restart the process. The prompts in green are the easier words, the colours will vary as the prompts get harder (from green, to yellow, orange or red). The red prompts are the most difficult questions to answer/formulate. There are 16 different human rights in the selector that have been summarised from the United Nations declaration of Human Rights which contain 30. Random Name Generator: This is a fun way to ensure pupil participation in lessons. The PowerPoint is completely editable. It has space to up to 35 pupil names. Pupils names can be added to each slide and once in presentation mode, click anywhere on slide two and a name will be generated. N.B. the same pupil can be selected more than once on this presentation. Fun Hand Timer: his is a fun countdown timer that can be used as a time management tool in any lesson. You have a choice between two different hand styles and can easily alter the timing between 1-5 minutes 2 or 5 minutes. Simply delete a hand (this takes away a minute at a time. The timings can easily be altered in the animation pane to make the timer shorter or longer should you so wish. Each hand style can be added to your own slides and displayed in the right hand corner if you so wish! If you review this resource we will give you another resource of the same value for FREE. We hope that you enjoy this resource! We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes TeachElite’s Shop click the’Follow this Author button’ . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload. You can find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachEliteRE and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachElite/ #BACKTOSCHOOL