RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
Built on the work and ideas of the team at King's College London, this is the second part to a unit introducing students to the pedagogy of CRE.
It guides students to think critically about religions and worldviews, not critically of them.
I've used it with 7, 8 and 9 and students have enjoyed the discussion and the abstract reasoning in each lesson.
This is an organised and differentiated project designed as the culmination of the CRE SOW (also available)
I advise you adapt it to your class, the year 9s were able to do all of these but year 7 may struggle so limit it to just two tasks/topics possibly.
Students should present their research.
Built on the work and ideas of the team at King's College London, this is the second part to a unit introducing students to the pedagogy of CRE.
It guides students to think critically about religions and worldviews, not critically of them.
I've used it with 7, 8 and 9 and students have enjoyed the discussion and the abstract reasoning in each lesson.
Also included is an alternative (and very fun) project, themed on X files - Students critically investigate evidence for the paranormal.
This lesson has a fun starter that is nearly impossible to do - it's a translation of some Hebrew words. It's more there to expose them to the language than anything else - Get practicing your pronunciation.
The main body of the lesson explores the story of the exodus (5 min video) and looks then at the seder meal and its importance within Judaism.
The activity can be assisted with text books and set as homework
This activity looks at evidence and the nature of value when determining truth.
Physical Evidence, Experience, Credibility.
The activity looks at a story in which the head teacher (I made it the head teacher as it is more fun - I suggest you change it to your HT) has lost some chocolate and is trying to discover who took it, however the evidence conflicts.
Students enjoy the detective like feel to the lesson, they really get the concept of evidence leads to factual conclusion, but different evidence is important, not just the physical.
These Judaism lessons are adapted from the GCSE book for year 9s - introducing them to the thought patterns of the new spec whilst not overwhelming them!
This lesson covers the role of the law in Jewish life, Food laws and Sabbath.
Introduction to Fletcher's Situation Ethics.
This has a couple of activities but is designed as a power point where the teacher can interactively explain and elaborate on the slides.
The PPT looks at the context of SE and raises the concepts of legalism and antinomianism.
This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work)
I recommend laminating and printing each set of different colour paper. There are about 60 words in total.
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available as bundle with
Islam and Themes
Please review!
Thanks
This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE SET.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work)
I recommend laminating and printing each set of different colour paper. There are about 60 words in total.
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available as bundle
Also available
Christianity
Islam
Themes A - F
Thanks
This bundle includes my keyword revision game for themes B,C,D
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work)
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available
Christianity
Islam
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
Thanks
This is a long and detailed power point covering the militant atheism section of the AQA RS A level text book. It basically just follows the book and breaks down the information for the students.
Hope it saves you some time!
This is a big lesson power point that covers the introduction to the unit. It includes both Christian and Islamic teachings and perspectives on human rights.
Within the power point are a number of exam style questions.
This is a detailed power point following the text book, it contains information on the Fresh Expressions movement within Christianity as a response to secularisation.
Not the most interesting of topics in the AQA book!
Here is my power point detailing the rise and development of the House Church movement. Hope it helps
This is my question bank for the Christianity beliefs section of the AQA 9-1 RS GCSE Exam. It covers all the topics in beliefs and includes questions for 4 mark, 5 mark and 12 mark questions.
This a PPT for the chapeter on the liberationist response to secularisation. Again it’s just a power point, nothing spectacular but follows the text book (which jumps around quite a bit). I’ve tried to streamline it as best I can.
Includes:
Quietist /activist apporaches
Secular ownership of religion
Liberationist approach
This lesson introduces to the main ideas of the trinity, I have attached the sheet of trinitarian analogies. Every time I teach students I get them to explain why all the analogies fall short.
It covers the origins of trinitarian thought and the heresies the doctrine was developed to guard against.
This the 2nd lesson on the Trinity. It starts with a reminder on the heresies around the Trinity (can be used as starter).
It then details how the Filioque controversy came about and goes into bit of detail on the Great Schism of 1054 (please do make it clear that the Church was slowly drifting a part due to the fall of the Roman empire.)
I’ve made an attempt to explain what ‘proceeds’ from the Father and the Son mean and how this idea fits into Easter and Western Theology.
Over 100 questions from the Chrsitianity practices section of the 9-1 RS GCSE course. They cover the 4,5 and 12 mark questions. Some are borrowed from the text books, most have been created by me. Ideal for students.
These two question banks contain over 200 questions between them. They cover the 4, 5 and 12 mark questions for both the beliefs and practices sections of the Christianity unit.
