This can be used as a stand alone lesson or as the introductory lesson in the Fantastic places SoW. It looks at the amazing India city of Hampi and launches an investigation as to why the city is surrounded by boulders. The students will investigate two ideas: Science and Religion and will need to explain why they believe one over the other. They will also be encouraged to create their own original explanation. A fun lesson with lots to do.

A terrific lesson that encourages students to think about the nature of happiness and why it can be so difficult to achieve. It looks at happiness in different situations, and how we can work at being happier ourselves. An interesting and important lesson.

This can be a one off lesson or can be part of a wider scheme of work looking at identity and belonging. This lesson looks at the issue of identity and what makes you who you are. It discusses three famous world leaders and looks at a case study of a young lady. This is used to get the students to reflect on who they are and who they want to be,

This powerpoint (with activities) can be adapted to your own personal use or planner design. It is designed to help tutor and pupils to ensure they are using their homework/study planners correctly and effectively. It also helps to promote consistency and efficiency and help to improve h/w recording across our school. This was a problem at my school until I created this presentation, and now it is much much better!

This lesson looks at how your feelings and emotions may change during puberty. It looks at how students can cope with these changes. Students will be encouraged to think about and discuss their feelings.

This is a game based on the classic 1980s children’s TV show mallet’s mallet. It contains hundreds of words that can be used to start the game and blank cards so you can make more of your own. You will however have to make your own mallet! (I use a newspaper rolled up and taped!) If you are unsure how to play you can always look it up on youtube!

This lesson gets students to consider what is important to them. It is a good test of their honesty and their integrity. A fun but interesting lesson.

An excellent lesson that gets the students to work as a teams to solve various problems. Unsurprisingly this lesson involves a lot of teamwork with fun activities that get the students off their seats and competing with each other in groups. The main feature of the lesson is a plane crash activity that is both challenging and fun. The students LOVE this lesson!

This lesson looks the media and how it can influence our perception of what is an ideal body. It also looks at what our bodies are like and why there is no such thing as normal. It helps to challenge stereotypes, promote diversity and allow students to have important conversations about the pressures young people feel when it comes to body image.

The aim of the assembly is to get the students to focus on mindfulness and the benefits of silence. This assembly is suitable at any time of year and with any year group. If you like this assembly please leave a review.

This lesson was made for an all girls school, but with a few adaptaions it could be used at a mixed school. It covers all the essential information a young teenager needs to know about puberty and their changing bodies. Some fun and engaging activities. An interesting and informative lesson.

An excellent lesson that considers fears and worries and what we can do about them. “we have nothing to fear but fear its self” The students will reflect on their fears and what they can do about them.

This lesson was created for use in a KS3 Buddhism unit but could easily work in any RS unit of work, or indeed a PSHE unit. It tells the story of a young lady at an airport who jumps to the wrong conclusion when she doesn’t have all the facts. It’s told through a series of pictures and is a beautiful was to reinforce the message that a parable can be a highly effective way of getting across an important message. The pupils then have to create their own parables (there is a guide and some ideas to help them). This lesson can easily be extended to two or three lessons with extension activities (such as turning it into a role play, or making it a cartoon, or a presentation). A fun, fascinating and fantastic lesson.

This lesson has been observed numerous times and has always been rated as outstanding, It is focused on the consequences of the Black Death and looks at how it changed Britain in many different areas. The students use sources in a carousel and collect the information to learn what the positive and negative changes were for the people of Britain. A well made and throught provoking lesson.

A really fun lesson to introduce students to the idea of historical anachronisms (wrong time or wrong place in history). It uses both drawings and phots to demonstrate examples of anachronisms and asks the students to use their understanding and empathy to create their own stories full of anachronisms. A fun and useful lesson,

This lesson looks at the Tibetan Buddhist Prayer flags. It looks at their background, history, design, meaning and purpose. The students will learn all about the flags, before finishing the lesson by designing a flag of their own. This is a fantastic opportunity to create a colourful display in the classroom (especially if you’ve got some coloured paper!)

This lesson get the students to explore the Islamic teachings about the use of drugs and alcohol. It uses different teachings from the Quran to explain why Muslims have the attitudes they do towards drugs and alcohol. The students will also be asked to consider whether or not these views should still be held today, and if not what the counter arguments could be. A good lesson to highlight student attitudes and misconceptions.

Who was Jack the Ripper? This lesson looks at the main suspects and gets the students to evaluate who they think was the real Jack the Ripper. This lesson is free. It is lesson 4 of the SOW about Jack the Ripper. If you like what you see then please download the rest of the SOW. Please leave a review of the resource if you download it.

“THIS IS AN AMAZING LESSON” This is one of the of the most memorable lessons the students will study about Nazi Germany. It is both interesting and fun in equal measure. This is really two lessons (or a double) that covers the changing role of women in Nazi Germany before the war, during the 1930s and in WW2. Lesson 1 - contains a lot of information about Nazi policies towards women including a ‘True or False’ Quiz, some sources from leading Nazis and an exam question with a mark scheme. Lesson 2 - The real fun is in lesson two where the students will have to work as a team to draw the perfect Nazi women. They do so by passing their drawings along every 30 seconds and adding to each others drawings. It is a fun, interesting, memorable lesson that the students will be talking about long after the lesson is finished. Download these lessons! Seriously you won’t regret it. :-)

This lesson covers the Golden Age in Germany from 1923 to 1929 under Gustav Stresemann. It explains the key treaties signed in that period, why they were important and what their impact was both short and long term. It also has a clever device that will aid pupils in their revision of this period. A useful and interesting lesson.