AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Christian Beliefs Exam Questions planning sheet. A good activity to get pupils planning out exam questions. This one has information on it which pupils could try and include. A focus on exam technique.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Keyword Dominoes. Really useful for revision as it has most of the important keywords in Hinduism used in the new GCSE. These can be printed and laminated and used in class or printed and given to pupils to use at home to revise.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christianity keyword dominoes. Can be printed and laminated and re-used as revision, or printed for pupils to complete on their own and keep or independent revision actvity for homework. Useful as it is most of the keywords needed for the Christian Beliefs and Practices units of work.
AQA Hindusim Practices Revision darts worksheet. This is a worksheet to check pupils understanding of 20 of the main keywords or concepts or teachings within this unit of work.
Pupils colour code red or green for their understanding on the dartboard, depending on how confidently they can answer the question.
You can then see overall how much pupils know about this unit of work and pick out areas of weakness to work on.
Done this will my GCSE group they found it really useful to check and assess knowledge on this unit of work.
There are these sheets available on TES for each of the following units of work separately or a bundle deal for them all:
Christian Beliefs, Christian Practices, Hindu Beliefs, Hindu Practices, Relationships, Peace and Conflict, Crime and Punishment and Religion and Life.
AQA Religious Studies Revision Thinking Quilt for Christian Beliefs unit of work.
Students can use to colour code which ideas link to which topic. Useful for revision to check understanding.
AQA RS Religion and Life Revision Thinking Quilt. Students can use this for revision. They colour code the ideas and match those to the topic within the unit of work
AQA RS Religion, Peace and Conflict Revision Thinking Quilt. Students can use this revise from before an end of topic test or the exam. Students colour code the topics and match them with the ideas. Good way to show an understanding of what links to what topic
AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Peace and conflict concept sheets. These are really useful for students to use to learn the important key concepts in the Peace and conflict unit of work. Pupils work through defining, applying, transforming into an image, creating a question which includes the key concept and making links to other words. Really useful approach for pupils to embed the key concepts. This includes 5 sheets one for each key concept of forgiveness, peace, conflict, War, reconciliation.
AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Hinduism Cosmology revision sheet. This is based on the PIXL approach in which pupils have to reduce, transform and create. Students have some key revision information in the middle of the sheet and key words around the outside. They then reduce the information into their own words and then transform this into an image, before creating some multiple choice questions based on cosmology. Students found this useful as this was a tricky part of the Hinduism course for some pupils. Great for independent revision or study as well as being good for teachers to use as a resource to talk through with students.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams. Useful if pupils are studying Hinduism as one of their religions.
New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Practices Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams. Useful if pupils are studying Hinduism as one of their religions.
AQA RS Hinduism Gurus. A worksheet to consolidate knowledge on the roles and purpose of Gurus and different types of gurus in Hinduism.
It includes a worksheet and info sheet to help complete it
Arjuna’s Dilemma story worksheet. I use this for AQA religious studies Peace and conflict unit of work. It is a useful way of understanding the story and then I get them to apply this to Hindu views on war.
this is a dual coding worksheet about the life of the buddha and the 3 signs of being. This is used after the teaching of the life of the Buddha and the 3 signs lessons for students to recall the story using dual coding. They see the images and write below what happens. Really good for retrieval practice or homework.
There are answers after each slide so you can go through it with students.
AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Exam structure presentation. This powerpoint goes through how the exam works and how the paper will be set out along with key information for pupils.
GCSE Religious Studies Christian practices 12 mark exam question structure sheet. Really useful, especially for lower ability students as it guides them through a 12 mark answer using a writing frame and ideas which get them started. it is a double sided sheet with the markscheme placed in it and a space for teachers or students to provide feedback on the answer.
A key word display for Christianity keywords for the AQA religious new spec 9-1. Over 50 key words in pupil speak which can be used as a room display or shrunk in size and given to pupils to learn.
PLCs for all four themes and issues of relationships, crime and punishment, peace and conflict and religion and life. I can statements for pupils to RAG themselves at the start of revision and at the end and to also RAG whether they are confident with keywords and key teachings that relate to different topics.
This is focused on Christianity and Hinduism(as the comparative religion) however could be changed easily to whatever religion you teach alongside Christianity.
This could even be given at the beginning of the course and then revisited at the end.
New spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Hinduism Keyword display. This includes over 90 keywords and concepts pupils need to know if they are studying Hinduism for the new GCSE specifications. Could be used as a display or shrunk down and given to pupils to learn.