Philosophy: Complete Unit (RE/RS)

This is a complete unit of work introducing students to the idea of philosophy and philosophical thinking. This resource includes 10 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons).It was designed for Year 9 in my school, but would be suitable for any KS3 year. There’s a range of different resources and activities to keep students engaged and encourage independent learning.

MINIMAL PRINTING

It includes:

• A tracker for the whole of my Y9 schemes of learning, featuring this as the first unit
• Progress map for students to highlight after each assessment in the year
• Common misconceptions and how to respond to feedback advice page
• Why are we learning this? Page
• What is Philosophy?
• How did Plato think we can know the truth? (realm of forms and realm of appearances)
• Why did Descartes doubt everything?
• Was God the first cause?
• Was God the designer of everything?
• Is God involved in the world?
• Why did Freud think God was all in the mind?
• Why did Marx compare religion to a drug?
• Are the new atheists right about faith?
• A key skill test opportunity to provide students with feedback on the skill ‘evaluate’
• A factual recall test opportunity (link to a microsoft form)
• 'Evaluate’ 12-mark question marking sticker templates (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
• 2 pieces of fully resourced homework (1 research based and 1 revision based for a factual recall test.)

All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’ and differentiation is present in the form of sentence starters, excellence challenges and model answers.
This is complete and ready to teach! Non-specialists have used it and followed it with ease.

Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
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