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 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 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 has been designed to be adaptable, there is an information sheet that can be adapted in multiple ways, differentiated questions and optional activities that you can do with it. Also on the slides are exam questions. Note - the embedded videos take a few seconds to load, if they don’t simply re open the power point, go to the slide and wait a few moments.

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 probably better taught over two lessons. Here we have slides for communion and baptism. The activity around communion can be adapted, it’s essentially a comparison activity.

Can be a quick lesson, a couple of good videos that can serve as useful discussion points. exam style questions included in the presentation.

Another simple lesson on festivals, I actually had mine do a research homework leading in to this. I recommend combining this lesson with another shorter one.

This lesson covers the work of three charities including street pastors, Trussell trust abd the oasis project (Carousel activity) It also includes some really helpful videos on street pastors and Trussell trust.

This lesson looks at the way Christians evangelise today. There is a video on Alpha, and the one on John Chau which appeared in the news - really useful for discussion. I got students to do a for and against for evangelism they cam up with loads of ideas.

This lesson covers the nature of God in Islam, it looks at the nature of God as ‘one’ , and explores why there are no images of God. There are a number of questions and activities included in the power point.

This fascinating topic not for the feint hearted can be a joy to teach, but it really requires you to have your head around it. Hopefully this powerpoint will help! There is a paradox right at the centre and that is the point - the ultimate response is to say God is entirely other and we can’t know. For Muslims, two ways of understanding can be seen, Emphasising Allah’s immanence - Allah knows you so well he knows what you will do. Emphasising Allah’s transcendence - Allah is outside time and space so knows the future as we know the past.

I’ve set this up as a carousel lesson, it’s designed to be taught in one big double lesson but you could break it up. There is a worksheet pack and some source material, I also used text books to help them but they could use the internet instead. It covers the prophets named on the AQA Spec.