Religion, Philosophy, Sociology & Ethics Resource Base
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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
In order to encourage ratings and reviews, if you buy any of our products, are happy with your purchase, and leave a 5* rating for it: just email us and we'll send you a free bonus gift!
Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the ‘Religious Experience’ section of the specification. It refers to mystical and conversion experiences and the philosophy of William James, as out lined in the specification. The topic is a part of the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the: ‘Arguments based on Reason’ section of the specification. It refers to the ontological argument and challenges to it. It refers to the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
This PowerPoint features 100 ethical and legal debates based on the AQA and Edexcel GCSE Computer Science specifications.
As per the AQA & Edexcel specifications, it deals with:
• cyber security
• mobile technologies
• wireless networking
• cloud storage
• theft of computer code
• issues around copyright of algorithms
• cracking
• hacking
• wearable technologies
• computer based implants.
With a focus on privacy. It also includes some other ethical issues (e.g. relating to AI, automation) that students will find interesting.
Each debate asks students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position.
This resource can be used for an entire lesson, but it is recommended as a tool to use at the end of lessons throughout the course: it’s especially useful in the event that your lesson finishes early, as a good way to use the last minutes.
Please leave a positive review if you like this download :)
This fully resources lesson focuses on the topic of 'Poverty, Inequality & Christianity'.
This lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice' theme (Theme F).
It is a great 'instant lesson' and is useful both to RE specialists and as an emergency cover lesson led by non-specialists: all you need to do is print out one of the included worksheets and run the PowerPoint - which will link you to carefully selected videos about the topic!
Aside from links to carefully selected videos; this download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-AfL tasks
-SIX video-learning worksheets (.doc or .pdf)
-A detailed lesson plan
The worksheets are specially designed 'Video-Learning Worksheets' that structure students' learning whilst they use documentary evidence to research a subject: three of the worksheets are A4 and the other 3 are A3 size (all double-sided!).
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Internet Access
Access to YouTube
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the ‘Problem of Evil’ section of the specification. It refers to the problem of evil and theodicies as detailed in the specification. The topic is a part of the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
This fully resources lesson focuses on the topic of 'Christianity & Homosexuality'
This lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the ' Families & Relationships' theme (Theme A).
It is a great 'instant lesson' and is useful both to RE specialists and as an emergency cover lesson led by non-specialists: all you need to do is print out one of the included worksheets and run the PowerPoint - which will link you to carefully selected videos about the topic!
Aside from links to carefully selected videos; this download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-AfL tasks
-SIX video-learning worksheets (.doc or .pdf)
-A detailed lesson plan
The worksheets are specially designed 'Video-Learning Worksheets' that structure students' learning whilst they use documentary evidence to research a subject: three of the worksheets are A4 and the other 3 are A3 size (all double-sided!).
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Internet Access
Access to YouTube
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This download is a demo version so that you can try the method and see how effective it is with your classes.
The full version can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-p4c-the-philosophical-debate-generator-200-slide-ppt-with-randomiser-philosophy-for-kids-11382893
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About the full version:
This is a 200 slide PPT, containing 198 philosophical debates, discussions, and dilemmas.
It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide: when clicked a random moral problem is presented to the group.
Uses:
-P4C (Philosophy for kids)
-Form time activities
-R.S./Philosophy/Citizenship cover lessons
-Debating societies
-Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons
Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position.
The formats are:
-Is the statement TRUE of FALSE?
-Whose side do you take?
-Agree or Disagree?
-Which statement is more true?
This resource is great value at £4.99 and cannot be found elsewhere:
-It clearly contributes to your school’s SMSC provision
-Furthers students’ critical thinking skills
-It allows for countless hours of discussion and debate to be structured in a focussed and engaging manner.
-It would take days to reproduce yourself.
-It can save vast amounts of staff time in preparing cover lessons
-It is the perfect way to make the most of any time a teacher might have left at the end of a lesson.
-It deals with cross curricular issues
Please note: this resource deals with controversial issues, debates and questions that may be deemed unsuitable for younger children. It is designed for secondary school students, but can be easily adapted to younger years with appropriate amendments by their teacher.
For accompanying videos please download from Youube:
The Veggy Buddha
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo I don’t eat my friends Buddhist Vegetarianism (Parts 1 thru 5)
Really effective way of >making students think!
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson 19 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Social Stratification’ section.
This lesson focuses on the future of social stratification, the influence of technology on social stratification, and the nature of social stratification in utopian and dystopian fictional visions of the future.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson
-A4 Worksheet (double-sided)
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new GCSE specification but are certainly useful for any GCSE Sociology specification. We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons, positive reviews are greatly appreciated (and rewarded, just email us!)
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new WJEC/EDUQAS Sociology GCSE specification. This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson number 1 of our 20 lesson course for this section- it is designed to introduce the requirements of the ‘EDUCATION’ unit and its central debates.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-6 x A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (.doc, editable)
-An A4 student information sheet explaining the required learning for the unit
-A premium quality, editable, and fully-animated PowerPoint presentation that covers the entire lesson
-A homework task
All lessons are designed around the new EDUQAS / WJEC specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.
This lesson can be downloaded as a part of a 20-lesson bundle, saving you money. We’ve made complete resources for the entire GCSE Sociology course, browse them in our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
Positive reviews warmly welcomed!
This complete lesson focuses on primary and secondary sources of data, it explores the uses, strengths and weaknesses of different secondary sources. This is the sixth of ten lessons comprising our 'Research Methods' Unit for the new GCSE Sociology specifications (designed for AQA but useful to WJEC/EDUQAS). Save over 50% by getting the 10 lesson pack!
This download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PPT Show (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson (.ppsm & .ppsx formats)
-An A3 Worksheet
-A colorful and comprehensive 10-page knowledge hunt (about the different secondary sources)
-A Homework worksheet (practice exam question)
We take considerable time making our resources to the highest possible standard, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to contact us if you need additional resources creating or have any questions: godwin86@gmail.com
PS: AQA Sociology GCSE Teachers' Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1786443641643898/
Check out our great website to help you find out other GCSE Sociology resources: http://ks4sociology.wordpress.com
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Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This collection of 17 lessons is for GCSE Religious Studies teachers who are teaching Christianity & Islam. It is for Theme F of the AQA Religious Studies specification: Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice.
It includes 10 lessons about Christian beliefs and 7 lessons about Muslim beliefs. It also includes some bonus resources that I hope will be useful to you.
Lesson 1-10 (Christianity)
Introduction
Central Debates
Christianity, Wealth & Poverty
Poverty, Inequality & Christianity
Christianity, Homophobia & Sexism
Racism & Positive Discrimination
ICT Suite Lesson
Freedom of Religion & Religious Expression
Assessment Lesson
Unit Overview (Video-Learning Worksheet Lesson)
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Lesson 11-17 (Islam)
11) Wealth & Poverty
12) Uses of Wealth
13) The Status of Women (1)
14) The Status of Women (2)
15) Freedom of Religion & Religious Expression
16) Unit Overview (Islam)
17) Unit Overview (Islam)
It also includes three bonus resources:
-A Personal Learning Checklist for this unit
-2 x Debate Generators [revision tools]
Each lesson is fully resourced and includes a lesson plan, homework, AfL tasks. Most lessons are based around professionally designed A3 worksheets.
This download is designed to be everything you need in order to teach this theme and cover Christian & Muslim perspectives. Whilst designed around the AQA specification, it is certainly relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Christianity & Islam.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This complete lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the ‘Religion, Crime & Punishment’ theme and deals with Hindui teachings, beliefs and perspectives. It is the seventh of seven lessons in our new GCSE Thematic Studies units for Hinduism: have a look at the downloadable unit - buying the lessons together saves considerable time & money!
This download includes:
-An editable PowerPoint file
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet (.doc) (with instructions and integrated peer-assessment)
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a time-line of learning activities.
This lesson is designed to be used with an ICT/Computing Suite: students will need access to computers for this lesson as it is based around them creating a PowerPoint presentation in pairs and then peer-assessing one another’s work. It is a unit overview lesson and covers all of the main topics of this unit.
We’ve made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Hinduism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Hinduism) together to save money!
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Religious Studies resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
PLEASE NOTE:
Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Hinduism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the second in our seven-lesson Hinduism unit for Theme E: ‘Religion, Crime & Punishment’ and focuses on Hindu views, teachings and beliefs about forgiveness and the forgiveness of criminals.
It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Hinduism.
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It’s beautiful :) ]
-A set of A3 group-work debate worksheets
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet and A3 debate worksheets. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
We’ve made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Hinduism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Hinduism) together to save money!
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
Make sure you download the 20 Lesson GCSE Hinduism Unit for ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’!
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Hinduism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the third in our seven-lesson Hinduism unit for Theme E: ‘Religion, Crime & Punishment’ and focuses on Hindu views, teachings and beliefs about capital punishment (the death penalty).
It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Hinduism.
We’ve made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Hinduism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Hinduism) together to save money! Click here to have look!
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It’s beautiful :) ]
-A student information A4 sheet (for use with aforementioned A3 worksheet)
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
Make sure you have a look at our 20-lesson GCSE Hinduism unit for the ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’ part of the course!
The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
This fully resourced lesson is for those teaching Hinduism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It is the fourth in our seven-lesson Hinduism unit for Theme E: ‘Religion, Peace & Conflict’ and compares Hindu & Christian views, teachings and beliefs about capital punishment.
It was designed with the AQA Religious Studies specification in mind, but relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Hinduism.
The lesson features starters, learning objectives, key-words, key-information, a colour double-sided A3 worksheet, AfL tasks, discussion and debate tasks and homework.
This download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-A double-sided colour A3 worksheet [please ignore the broken preview on Tes! It’s beautiful :) ]
-A comprehensive knowledge hunt, comparing Hindu & Christian views
-A detailed lesson plan
-AfL tasks & homework
The lesson is centered around a double-sided colour A3 worksheet. All necessary resources to run the lesson are included in this download. All included resources are editable.
We’ve made 10-lesson units covering Christian views for each of the themes, you can now bolster these with 7-lesson add-on units for the comparative religions: in this case Hinduism. Download individual units or all 17 lessons (Christianity & Hinduism) together to save money
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017) Contents may differ slightly from those depicted on the cover photo, which are meant to be a fair illustration of the quality and activities contained in the download.
Download our 20-lesson unit for the ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’ section here! :)
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
I went through all my old resources to find relevant files for the ‘Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice’ theme of new specification and compiled them into this 5 lesson bundle bundle. Resources focus on Christianity but I will be making new resources for Buddhism soon.
Update: 2018
Please note that I have now released updated resource packs for the ‘Thematic Studies’ component of the GCSE course.
These can be found by clicking here.
They are considerably higher quality, better value and generally superior to these older files in every way so have a look!
I went through all my old resources to find relevant files for the ‘The Existence of God & Revelation’ theme of new specification and compiled them into this 90+ file bundle. Resources focus on Christianity but I will be making new resources for Buddhism soon.
Please note: most of the video files have been removed from this download due to space limitations (the maximum upload is about 200mb) - but the video files are all available on YouTube.
Update: 2018
Please note that I have now released updated resource packs for the ‘Thematic Studies’ component of the GCSE course.
These can be found be clicking here.
They are considerably higher quality, better value and generally superior to these older files in every way so have a look!