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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.

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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
School Microclimate Survey
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School Microclimate Survey

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated set of lessons in order to carry out a microclimate survey around a school environment, although it could be adapted to suited others. The first lesson helps students to prepare for their microclimate survey, paying particular attention to how two major pieces of equipment work and to construct hypotheses for their survey. The second lesson involves students going around a school environment, in groups, collecting their microclimate data. Differentiated recording sheets are provided for students. The third lesson involves students writing up their report to show the results of their survey. I hope you find these resources helpful.
What Is Longshore Drift
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What Is Longshore Drift

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the process of longshore drift. The main activities include a class discussion, video note taking task and a group drama activity. This lesson can easily be used by non-specialists as all answers are included. Learning Objectives: To understand the forces of transportation and deposition. To explain the process of longshore drift. To analyse how human activity can affect this process.
What Does It Mean To Die
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What Does It Mean To Die

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introductory lesson on different views people have towards life after death. It contains a key term match up task, ranking task and class discussion task as the main activities of the lesson. Learning Objectives: To describe the meaning of key terms related to life after death. To explain reasons why people believe in life after death. To explore your own personal viewpoint.
London Terror Attacks
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London Terror Attacks

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A simple presentation used in my tutor group to explore what happened during the London terror attacks and how the UK government and the international community responded. It could easily be adapted to be used as an assembly.
Hindu Funerals
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Hindu Funerals

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Hindu funerals. In the starter students have to use two images to draw out initial observations about Hindu funerals. In the main this leads to an information gathering task and a symbolism task, with a GCSE style question included to assess understanding of the material. Plenary is also included. Learning Objectives are: To describe the key features of a Hindu funeral service. To explain how these features reflect their beliefs about life after death.
Why are Deserts called an Extreme Environment
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Why are Deserts called an Extreme Environment

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This fully resourced, differentiated lesson focuses as an introduction to extreme environments, namely the challenges that face groups of people that live in hot arid (desert) environments. Students complete a set of tasks, including a picture analysis task, an information gathering and comprehension task, and an indepdent learning task focusing on the potential future impacts of climate change on the physical environment and the Bedouin tribe.
Modern Conflict Fact Files
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Modern Conflict Fact Files

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This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.
Christian attitudes to the role of women
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Christian attitudes to the role of women

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This contains a fully resourced lesson on the role of women. It begins by students developing an understanding of how women's rights have changed over time in the UK (since the 1950's), then explaining different Christian denominations views towards their role and status within the Church. The lesson then concludes with an evaluation exam question. Extension questions are included to provide stretch and challenge.
The Benefits of Living in a Multicultural Britian
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The Benefits of Living in a Multicultural Britian

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This contains a fully resourced lesson with a clear set of activities on the definition and benefits of living in a multicultural society. Credit must be given to the user 'Owall' for some of his/her ideas. If you amend or add to this please do add to TES since it is an important topic that I feel is under-resourced on TES.
What Is A Religious Experience
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What Is A Religious Experience

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introductory lesson on religious experiences. The main part of the lesson involves students produce a spider diagram showing William James’s criteria for a religious experience, working in groups to complete a grid task showing its different types (i.e. mystical, corporate, conversion, visions and voices) and then link it back to William James’s classification scheme for analysis (how these examples meet some or all of his criteria), finishing off with a fun and innovative plenary. Learning Objectives: To describe the meaning of a religious experience. To explain the various categories of religious experience. To analyse whether they meet William James criteria for a religious experience.
Sources of Deforestation
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Sources of Deforestation

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This contains a fully resourced lesson on the sources of deforestation, focusing on research, group work and consolidation. Worked very well with my Year 9 groups. Learning Objectives are: To identify different sources of deforestation. To investigate the reasons for deforestation. To draw tentative conclusions about the effects of deforestation.
Plato's Analogy of the Cave
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Plato's Analogy of the Cave

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This contains a fully resourced lesson on Plato's analogy of the cave. It contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives: To describe the story of Plato’s cave. To explain how the story questions our idea of reality. To understand the symbolism of Plato’s ideas in The Matrix. Has worked very well with my classes. It is ideally aimed at KS4, but can easily be adapted for KS3.
Light in World Faiths
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Light in World Faiths

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This information sheet and worksheet details how light in two of the world's major religions - Christianity and Hinduism. Students use the first page to complete two tasks (grid filling and venn diagram) to help them understand this. Worked very successfully with my students.
Viewpoints Towards Life After Death
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Viewpoints Towards Life After Death

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A set of simple information sheets regarding different views towards life after death including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Atheism and Spiritualism. Was used as part of a lesson where students constructed fact files on the different views, commenting on their overall opinion towards them.
The Teleological (Design) Argument
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The Teleological (Design) Argument

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Teleological (Design) Argument for the existence of God.The main part of the lesson involves a class discussion on the elements of design they can think of from the natural world and relate this to the teleological argument in a written exercise, followed by an active class demonstration of Paley’s watch analogy (you could include props such as a pocket watch!) consolidated with a card sort task, then students create their own labelled diagram (text-to-picture) exercise to show the modern reformulations of the teleological argument. An essay question is provided at the end. Learning Objectives: To outline the teleological argument for the existence of God. To explain Paley’s version of the teleological argument. To assess the effectiveness of its modern reformulations.
Gun Control Arguments
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Gun Control Arguments

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This information pack contains a set of arguments for and against gun control in the United States. It can be used in a multitude of ways e.g. writing a speech where they have to support one particular viewpoint.
The Welfare State (UK)
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The Welfare State (UK)

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This contains a presentation on the introduction of the Welfare State in the UK. It contains a series of information and questions alongside some discussion tasks. I used it with my tutor group, although it could be adapted into a lesson.
How can belief affect people's actions?
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How can belief affect people's actions?

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This lesson focuses on how belief can affect people's actions, focusing on Desmond Doss, a soldier from WWII who refused to fire a single bullet. They explain how his belief affected his action, consider and analyse different viewpoints and evaluate how strictly one should follow their actions. Was designed for an observation lesson.
Types of Rainfall
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Types of Rainfall

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This fully resourced lesson explores the three types of rainfall in the UK. It contains a key term starter, video note-taking task and then a worksheet where they draw diagrams and explain the three main types of rainfall. The worksheet is differentiated to three different levels according to how confident students feel. I printed off a set for each table in different colours, from which they selected which one they felt the most confident with. Feedback always appreciated.
Three Refuges Assessment
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Three Refuges Assessment

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An assessment on the Three Refuges or Three Jewels. It contains clear levelled outcomes and sentence starters for the less able. Please feedback.