Buddhist Beliefs GCSE Bundle

This lesson covers the GCSE AQA Specification for Buddhism. Each lesson contains a starter, plenary, one or more activity, literacy and homework suggestions.

I teach them at speed in 50 minutes but I suggest taking the full 55-60 minutes if possible. Some lessons have slightly more content than others and this can be spread out according to your teaching schedule.

All the folders are labelled in order for download but for added clarity the suggested order for the lessons is as follows.

Lesson 1 - The story of Buddha
Lesson 2 - The Four Sights and Asceticism
Lesson 3 - The Enlightenment
Lesson 4 – Dhamma and the 3 Refuges
Lesson 5 – Dependent Arising
Lesson 6 – Dukkha
Lesson 7 – Anicca and Anatta
Lesson 8 – Buddhism Assessment (midway)
Lesson 9 – The Four Noble Truths (pt 1)
Lesson 10 – The Four Noble Truths (pt 2)
Lesson 11- Theravada and Mahayana
Lesson 12 – The Arhat and the Boddhisattva
Lesson 13 – Pure Land Buddhism
Lesson 14 – Buddhist Beliefs Practice Paper GCSE AQA

These lessons should be supplemented with photocopies of relevant sections of the AQA Buddhism textbook or students will have a book themselves.

I hope you enjoy the resources – please review if you do and I will be uploading more RE resources in the future so watch this space!