An extended presentation on the issue of biblical inspiration. It covers both Objective and Subjective views, as well as the ramifications of holding to each. Included are references to early Church fathers and Karl Barth.

This is a power point and silent debate sheet for an A level lesson of Calvin’s doctrine of accommodation. The power point is relatively brief which allows students to spend the second half of the double doing activities. I had mine do a silent debate (they had a hand out which was an extract from the Eduqas textbook and 10 mins to read it and highlight) They really did well and enjoyed it a lot, much to my surprise as this isn’t the most interesting unit for them!

This will be the first of many, I should get round to the others before easter. I have completed the boxes to show what it ought to look like when they have filled in their blank ones. It covers the key words, 4,5 mark questions for each topic (in this case Nature of God in Christianity) I plan to give them each a filled in one for every topic at easter, but that should be as a ‘top up’ rather than a do it for them.

This lesson is extracted from the pages on the development of Christian thought, with reference to wealth and poverty and prosperity gospel. It basically follows the text book, hopefully saves you sometime!

This revision pack follows the AQA text book for year 2. Its scaffolded to make things easier. It covers the principles of dualism according to Descartes, including critiques, before moving onto physicalism (functionalism) and dual-aspect Monism. I hope it helps your students revise!

This is just a simple ‘welcome back’ lesson for Religious Studies GCSE. It just goes over expectations etc.

The lesson includes activities and homework for the first topic in the beliefs section - the Nature of God. It covers the 3 key ideas - omnipotence, benevolence and just. It introduces students to exam technique.

This is a very detailed Scheme of Work for Christianity and Islam sections of the AQA Short Course, it is designed to be taught on roughly 2 hours a fortnight but can be adapted easily. Included are lesson activity ideas and guidance on content. It covers both Christianity and Islam beliefs.

This lesson covers the Trinity, it deals with misconceptions as well as covering the exam content. Included is a couple of engaging activities and hopefully clears up what is actually quite a difficult topic to understand! Lots of opportunity for exam technique

This lesson covers the contrasting beliefs in Christianity surrounding creation. It looks at the narrative of the story, before moving on to look at the interpretations - Non-literal, partly-literal and literal. There are a number of engaging activities in the lesson. Differentiation is primarily by outcome. Also included is my excellent 12 mark question plan

This game is played in similar fashion to a well known one. The person with the highest score wins… Excellent for revision or just giving students a general context of philosophy.

This lesson covers the birth narratives and stories from Jesus’ life that give information as to his being called ‘the Son of God’ There are a couple of text analysis activities (trying to give students opportunities to deal with original material) and an enjoyable carousel. please give feedback!

This lesson covers both the resurrection and the ascension, the video may take a moment to load, if it stays a blank white box the plug in hasn’t activated so the ppt just needs to be re opened. There are a variety of activities designed to be modified, dropped in and out depending on your students and time table. There is an evaluation activity looking at the evidence and arguments around the resurrection.

This is a fairly packed lesson trying to cover all the ground on these topics. It starts with getting an understanding of sin and its real problem, then goes on to look at the need for a saviour before finally identifying Jesus as that saviour in Christian thought. There are a couple highly informative videos (the you tube channel has lots more good ones I highly recommend it) if they don’t work reload the power point and give it time to load. Punctuated within are a number of questions as well as a detailed info sheet that could be used for multiple activities.

This is actually quite a convoluted topic, what you realise very quickly is that Christians have lots of different ideas about heaven and hell because the Bible is actually rather vague on exactly what happens. The best part of the lesson is the activity where they have to rate how ‘good’ the various famous people are. I printed those slides out and got students to hold them. They then stand in a line and move along it based on the relative ‘goodness’ of the other celebrities. The crunch bit of the learning comes when you get to the last one - God. Ask the class if it looks right that God is right next to (normally MLK) because that suggests God is only a little better, it requires the rest of the names to shuffle down to get further away from God. In my classroom they end up lining up against the side of the class opposite God. It shows really clearly that from God’s perspective, humans are all sinful and evil and no matter how much good they’ve done, they are not worthy to get to heaven. My year 10s got a lot out of this activity. I’ve tried to steer the lesson simple but I have a theology degree so if you’re not confident in certain bits, just cut it or simplify it. The diagram maybe useful if you want to teach it to that depth. I would say that it is important to mention that a Christian isn’t just someone who goes to church or even identifies as one, it is someone who truly believes that Jesus has died for their sins, not simply that non-Christians go to hell but they go because they are not forgiven. Also worth mentioning that many Christians these days are unsure if God really does send people to eternal punishment, maybe they still get to go to heaven - we don’t know.

This is a really big lesson for worship and prayer, you may find it easy to split in two. It covers the who the whats of these different styles. I’ve also now updated it to include lots of videos through, which the students really like. My year 10s like to write EVERYTHING down, its good training for A level and will help the revise, however you may want to just turn them into crib sheets if you want the to note take. The activity is a sorting one but in the interests of time I recommend using highlighters, the hands are also included, it is a way of listing advantages and disadvantages - thinking along the lines of 12 mark question. In the powerpoint I’ve included a video that has stuff to do with speaking in tongues (its a long video but you’d start from about 11 min in. Obviously, skip this if you’re not confident in explaining this belief and don’t want to open a can of worms, most people find it a bit freaky. If you do include it, I recommend talking them through the video and explaining that these people are having a ‘religious experience’ and it’s their emotions on display. If the videos don’t load after a few moments, re launch the power point.