Pearson Edexcel A-level Music
Bundle of THIRTEEN revision resources
Detailed Mind Maps
Harmony
Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
Texture
Structure
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A Level revision notes about ‘Top Girls’ by Caryl Churchill
Context
Feminism
Motherhood
The female body
Religion
Rebellion
Women’s roles
The state
Freedom
Hope
One page Case Studies:
TROPICAL STORM (Hurricane Katrina)
DROUGHT (SE England, 2006)
TECTONIC HAZARD (Tohoku Tsunami, Japan)
COASTAL LANDSCAPE (Holderness, Yorkshire)
RIVER LANDSCAPE (Tay Valley, Scotland)
SUSTAINABLE RAINFOREST (B&Q timber policy in the Amazon)
SUSTAINABLE ARCTIC (Svalbard Environmental Protection Act , Norway)
ARCTIC TREATY (The Arctic Council)
CITY IN AN ADVANCED COUNTRY (Hull, Yorkshire)
CITY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY (La Paz, Bolivia)
LIDC DEVELOPMENT (Top down and bottom up development, Nigeria)
UK ECONOMIC HUB (The Cambridge Cluster)
UK’S POLITICAL ROLE (Iraq War, 2003)
ETHNIC FOOD IN THE UK (origins of fish & chips and curry)
UK FOOD SECURITY (LOCAL) food banks
UK FOOD SECURITY (PAST) factory farmed chicken
UK FOOD SECURITY (PRESENT) GM crops
Glossary of key words
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Seven pages
RELIGION + ETHICS
Normative Ethical Theories
NATURAL LAW
Roman Catholic approach
Intrinsic values
Bentham
“Nonsense on stilts”
Cicero
“One eternal law"
ARISTOTLE
‘Eudaimonia’
Afterlife
THOMAS AQUINAS
‘Beatific vision’
Human purpose
Four Tiers of Law:
Eternal Law
Divine Law
Natural Law
HUMAN LAW
Precepts
‘Rule of synderesis’
Five primary precepts
‘Lex’ & ‘ius’
Real good
Apparent good
‘Principle of double effect’
Four conditions required in principle
Strengths & weaknesses
Just War theory
Seven virtues
Deontological secondary precepts
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Objective
Relativism
Rational
Conflicting rules
JOHN FINNIS
Seven basic goods
UTILITARIANISM
JEREMY BENTHAM
Hedonism
“Two sovereign masters”
Pleasure is sole good, pain sole evil
Principle of utility
Hedonic calculus
Fecundity
Purity
Act utilitarianism
Strengths & weaknesses
JOHN STUART MILL
Higher and lower pleasures
Rule utilitarianism
PETER SINGER
Preference utilitarianism
SITUATION ETHICS
WILLIAM TEMPLE
Four types on love in the Bible
EROS
STORGE
PHILIA =
AGAPE
Jesus at Last Supper
More loving outcome
Jesus’ actions
JOSEPH FLETCHER
Bioethics
God’s rules should not always be followed
'Law of love’
‘Himself Might his Quietus Make’
‘Special Bombing Mission No. 13’
‘Christian Cloak and Dagger’
Loving neighbour = loving God
Ten Commandments
Greatest Commandment
RUDOLF BULTMANN
'Love thy neighbour’
Three ways of making moral decisions:
Legalistic ethics
Antinomian ethics
Situation ethics
Six Fundamental Principles
Ruling norm of Christian decision
Only the end justifies the means
Four Working Principles
Pragmatism
Relativism
Positivism
Personalism
Conscience as a verb
RELIGIOUS vs NON-RELIGIOUS
AB William Temple
Pius XII condemned SE as sacrilegious
Jesus’ agape inspired SE
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Subjectivity
Too individualistic
Consistent with the gospel
Disregards divine command theory
Universal appeal
Religious vs secular
Altruism
Truly selfless acts
“Situationism is a method”
Reality
Eight page booklet : define keywords, create a factfile about an African country, a SPAG exercise about the continent, a short piece of research about the UN's work in Africa, an opinion piece about whether or not the UK still owes a moral debt to Africa for colonialism, a page to decorate an outline map of Africa with traditional patterns and finally a page to show how modern music is related to African rhythms
Geography Case Study
Lithium is key to green technologies.
The “Lithium Triangle” of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, holds most of the world’s lithium reserves.
Chinese businesses face allegations of the violation of the rights of local communities, damage to ecosystems and unsafe working conditions.
Argentinian lithium miners surrounded their Chinese managers’ compound and blockaded the entrance with flaming tyres.
This resource includes a variety of lesson activities to pick and choose:
Which Geography keyword is the ODD ONE OUT?
5Ws &1H about Tesla Motors and Elon Musk
5Ws &1H about a photo of lithium salt mounds
In which photo would you be most likely to … meet a worker whose health is at risk?
Critical Thinking: write THREE sentences to LINK these four images (technology: manufacturing, sales, use, waste)
Worksheet and data to construct a dot distribution map of China’s lithium mines around the World
PQE: China’s Lithium Mines - worksheet to analyse the dot distribution map using critical thinking (Patterns, Quantify, Exceptions)
Several slides for screen projection: encourages class evaluation of the positives vs negatives of dot distribution
Slide showing annotated map of Global North vs Global South - encourages analysis of correlation between lithium mining and socio-economic development
Link to video: “Argentina indigenous groups
protest against lithium mining”
Concept Map: The Lithium Triangle (35 snippets of info, to be colour-coded according to Locations, Causes, Effects, Management, Supporting Data)
The concept map info can then be used for:
Thought Chains: The Lithium Triangle - complete the scaffolding to complete six pieces of analysis…
“Chinese firms have been buying lithium mines in South America because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is SOCIALLY unsustainable because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is ECONOMICALLY unsustainable because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is ENVIRONMENTALLY unsustainable because…”
“Electric car makers buy Chinese lithium-ion batteries because…”
“Electric cars are not yet completely sustainable because…”
Geography Web: The Lithium Triangle
Pupils link feature and analyse the connections between the Lithium Triangle and China, Argentina’s government, indigenous people, Tesla Motors
TEACHERS’ BACKGROUND INFORMATION sheets (x3) with links to relevant articles and original BBC News story
Geography Case Study
April - May, 2024
Meteorologists confirmed that Hidaya is the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed in this part of the south Indian Ocean
Floods in Kenya killed 257 and injured 188 people; 56,000 homes destroyed
Activities concentrate on the Mukuru slum in the south of Nairobi
Flooding made worse by: Nairobi built on flood plain by the British colonisers + climate change + Indian Ocean Dipole + informal housing along river banks + saturated soil + impermeable concrete + infilling of Nairobi Dam
5Ws &1H: satellite photo of Tropical Cyclone Hidaya
Which settlement type is the ODD ONE OUT?
Which weather event is the ODD ONE OUT?
Lateral Thinking about the KENYAN FLOODS: Write three geographical sentences linking four photographs
Which photograph shows Kenya? Write a sentence to explain reasoning. (Actually a trick question: They ALL show different aspects of Kenya)
Over a dozen slides to set the scene and prompt discussion: photos of Nairobi and Mukuru, graph showing precipitation (to spot the two rainy seasons)
Links to videos for further knowledge
Mystery: Why did the Mwangi family have to leave their home?
Two slides of clues to help solve the mystery
Worksheet: annotate the map of Nairobi to explain the causes of the floods
Concept hexagons: explain the links between the icons (people, housing, cyclone, rain, flood, death)
Worksheet: Conclusion - Hypothesis “The Kenyan government were right to demolish the houses in Mukuru”
TEACHERS’ BACKGROUND INFORMATION sheets (x2) with further links and detail
Geography Case Study
We are meant to eat our Five a Day.
The UK only produces 17% of the fruit
and 55% of the vegetables that are bought in British shops.
40% of UK food is produced abroad.
Between 2023 and 2024, the Trussell Trust food banks distributed three million food parcels
to British people.
So what is going on?
This resource includes a variety of lesson activities to pick and choose:
Which Geography keyword (farming types) is the odd one out?
Which grass (cereals) is the odd one out?
In which photo of farming are you most likely to see agrichemicals being used? (vs Golden Rice).
%Ws & 1H - Battery hens (for class discussion).
Comparison of farming today with a 14th c. illustration.
Link to Channel 4 News video: ‘Millions in UK need to double income to escape poverty’.
Lateral Thinking about food supplies - ‘Discuss how these four photographs are linked… Then write three sentences to explain your ideas’ (climate change, floods, empty shekves, container ship).
Development compass worksheet: ‘Food security’.
Info sheet: ‘UK Food Security’ - to help complete…
Question Grid: ‘UK Food Security’.
Role play group sheets:
HM Government
UK farmers
Egyptian farmers
UK families
UK supermarkets
UK food bank organisers
Each sheet has some background info, two possible questions and space for students’ own questions to prepare before the role play itself.
Stakeholders’ conclusions: Worksheet folowing the role play
Worksheet: complete a divided bar graph showing ‘UK Food Imports’. Then students read the text, highlighting the main reasons why the UK’s food security is a problem.
Finally, they write a conclusion to explain what they have learned about the UK’s food security.
Worksheet: ‘Geo-Hexagons: Food Security’ - war, climate, money, Europe, inflation, shopping. Students explain in detail how each image is linked geographically.
Worksheet - Living Graph: ‘UK Households Experiencing Food Insecurity’ (with 20 clues to choose from).
Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link activity - ’ Food Imports to the UK’ (info sheet including proportional area map, worksheet to complete bar graph showing origin of foodstuffs, PEEL worksheet to complete).
Worksheet - ‘True for who? UK Food Security’
Worksheet - deBono’s ‘Six Hats: Food Security in the UK’.
Worksheet - ‘Thought Chains: Food Security in the UK’. Activity trains students to analyse data in detail using connectives. (Imports, sustainability, food bank use in the UK).
Food Security mystery: ‘Why are UK food prices so high?’
32 clues to distribute amongst students. Includes Ukraine War, changing diets, inflation, food waste).
Worksheet - ‘Geography Web: Food Security in the UK’.
Part filled-in to show how students should complete the activity. Links to be made between: Food supplies, the UK, Ukraine, Russia, migrant workers, petrochemicals).
Teachers’ Background Information: Includes links to original BBC article, academic articles.
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION – PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES
PLATO
THE FORMS
Heraclitus
Realm of the Forms
Realm of Appearances
Hierarchy of the Forms
Allegory of the Cave
Criticisms of the allegory
Darwin
Deus Ex Machina
ARISTOTLE
Method of per genus et per differentia
The Four Causes
The Prime Mover
SOUL, MIND & BODY
THE PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE OF SOUL, MIND AND BODY
Views of Plato:
Psyche
Soul
Tripartite soul
Allegory of the Chariot
Logos
Thymos
Eros
Views of Aristotle:
Soul
Nutritive soul
Sensible soul
Rational soul
METAPHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Substance dualism
Descartes
“Cogito ergo sum”
Mind + body
Pineal gland
Neural dependence
Gilbert Ryle
‘Ghost in a machine’
Materialism
Consciousness
Monism
‘I am a body’
Rejection of soul
Dawkins
‘The Selfish Gene’
SOUL ONE / SOUL TWO
Susan Blackmore
John Hick
soft materialist
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Five pages
DCT – LIVING
CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES
BIBLE = ONLY AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN MORALS
Theonomous Christian ethics
Jesus criticised Pharisees for following law too literally
Sola scriptura
2 Timothy
theopneustos
2 Peter
Issues with theonomous ethics
TRANSLATION
Exodus
WHICH BIBLE
Martin Luther
apocrypha
CONTRADICTIONS (OT vs NT)
CHERRY PICKING
Leviticus
Bibliolatry
INTERPRETATION
BIBLE, CHURCH + REASON
SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN MORALS
Heteronomous
Roman Catholic attitudes
Order of decision-making authority
Sacred Tradition
Magisterium
VATICAN II COUNCIL 1975
Papal infallibility
ex cathedra
Pius IX
Human reason (Natural Law):
JOHN PAUL II
Issues with accepting Church teachings
Jesus
Pharisees
ROSEMARY RADFORD REUTHER
Liberation theology
Protestant attitudes to Church teachings
Order of decision-making
Tradition
Archbishop of Canterbury
Reformation:
STANLEY HAUERWAS
AGAPE
Autonomous Christian ethics
1 Corinthians
Mark
HANS KÜNG
BENEDICT XVI
person of goodwill
'global ethic’
PAUL TILLICH
CHURCH HAS AUTHORITY OVER INDIVIDUALS
Subjectivity
Collective wisdom
God’s word
Agapeic action
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: PERSONAL vs COMMUNAL
Human freewill
Ability to reason
Beliefs of majority
Utilitarianism
God’s judgement of individuals
Community **
CHRISTIAN MORAL ACTION
BONHOEFFER
Assassination attempt against Hitler
DUTY TO GOD + THE STATE
Obedience, leadership + doing God’s will
Cost of Discipleship
Romans
God-given authority
God’s will
DAWKINS
**CHRISTIANS’ KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL **
Conscience
AQUINAS
Humanity corrupted by Fall
Decisions checked by community
Freewill
Civil disobedience
Teachings of Christ
‘Act and Being’
Church or state
Mark
Romans
Exodus
Daniel
MLK + Rosa Parks
Suffragettes
DUTY TO GOD OR STATE?
Choice should be obvious
Jesus
“Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s”
Bonhoeffer
Passivity and evil
Romans
Leadership on Earth
Fundamental Christian principles
Christians protesting abortions
Bonhoeffer’s extreme circumstances
Hitler as ‘anti-Christ’
MEIN KAMPF
Anti-Semitism
CHURCH AS COMMUNITY + SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
Confessing Church
Visible Church community
Proverbs
Sermon on Mount
SALT + LIGHT
‘Religionless Christianity’
Focus on Christ
Finkenwalde
Personal discipline
Look outwards, not inwards
Foundation of prayer
Centrality of study + discussion
Brotherhood
‘Cheap grace’ vs 'costly grace’
Struggling as Christ did
Mark
"The badge of true discipleship”
Jesus “the man for others”
BONHOEFFER’S EMPHASIS ON SUFFERING
Contemporary relevance
Bonhoeffer’s extreme experiences
Effects of globalisation
Jesus as central starting point
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords; complete a fact file about a an Indian state; SPAG exercise about Indian food; annotate a photo to show the problems of slum life; moral dilemma comparing the lives of the super rich and the extreme poor; explain why trees are important in Geography (using a Hindu quote as a prompt); a comparison of the lives of Krishna and Jesus
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
ETHICAL LANGUAGE – META-ETHICS
Definition
Do mind-independent moral properties exist?
Moral realism
Moral anti-realism
Cognitivism
True/false statements
Non-cognitivism
Grounding problem
NATURALISM
Cognitivist + realist
Fixed absolutes
F.H. BRADLEY
Concrete absolute reality
Moral perspective
Self-realisation
Observation
Criticism
DAVID HUME
Empiricist challenge
Reason vs emotion
Moral good + evil
Hume’s Law
Moral ‘ought’ statements
Factual ‘is’ statements
Non-cognitive vs cognitive
PHILIPPA FOOT
Virtue ethics
Moral rules
‘Natural goodness’
J.L. MACKIE
Anti-realism
Moral rules
Tradition
Variations between cultures
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Moral nihilism
Verification
Tautologies
Open question argument
Non-moral property
INTUITIONISM
G.E. MOORE
NON-NATURALISM
Intuition
Intrinsic good
Non-natural property
Naturalistic fallacy
Closed vs open questions
H.A. PRICHARD
Moral obligations
Duty
Moral vocabulary
W.D. ROSS
Conflicting duties
Prima facie duties
Overriding obligation
Seven foundational prima facie duties
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Argument from queerness
Cultural relativism
EMOTIVISM
Approval vs disapproval
DAVID HUME
MORAL JUDGEMENTS MOTIVATE ACTION
HUME’S FORK
A.J. AYER
Three kinds of knowledge
ANALYTIC JUDGEMENTS
SYNTHETIC JUDGEMENTS
MORAL JUDGEMENTS
Judgements of value
Utterances of preference
C.L. STEVENSON
Attitude relative to fundamental belief
Persuasion
Approval/disapproval
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Quantify goodness/pleasure
Foot’s moral realism
Moral diversity
Moral nihilism
Changing moral views
Moral progress
Embedding problem
Key issues:
What is meant by ‘good’
Meaningful vs meaningless
Powerpoint inspired by the RGS scheme of work "China Today". Whole lesson, includes starter (multinational companies), comparison of Shenzhen in 1970 with today, Geographical mystery about Apple's involvement ion China (WHAT were the reasons for moving iPhone production to China? HOW were the Foxconn workers treated? WHY are there nets outside Foxconn factory windows? WHO benefits from Apple products being made in China? ), differentiated questions (Explain why Apple was so interested in making its products in China; Compare the opinions of a Foxconn worker in China with an Apple customer in the UK. Then give your opinion of Foxconn/Apple; Describe the living and working conditions inside a Chinese factory like Foxconn) and plenary (the suicide of Ma Xiang Qian )
Powerpoint comparing the UK's development with Nigeria as a starter, The main part looks at how oil has brought wealth to Nigeria (eg Eko Atlantic City) but also devestation to the peoples of the Niger Delta. Plenary compares MNCs with the GDP of various countries. Activities include a mystery exercise and an exam-style question... HYPOTHESIS: “The discovery of crude oil in 1956 has helped Nigeria to develop”
Eight page booklet : define keywords, Latitude/Longitude map skills, a SPAG exercise about Russia, space for pupils to analyse Russia's citizenship policy, a moral dilemma based on renewing the UK's nuclear weapons, a page to write about the pupil's photo of Russia and finally a chance to research and design a Russian doll
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords; map the main national religions of the Middle East; SPAG exercise about the earliest civilisations; complete a multiplier effect of the oil industry; moral dilemma about letting refugees come to Britain; research the family tree of religions to find their founding dates; describe the importance of four Middle Eastern locations to religious people
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords; map countries and name their main exports; SPAG exercise about consumerism; find job titles to fit the four industrial sectors; moral dilemma about buying resources from developing countries; give own opinions about religious quotes regarding the environment; a question about our disposable society and new technology
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords, map imported items' origins found around the house; SPAG exercise about globalisation; explain the reasons for child labour being so common; questionnaire about shopping habits and attitudes; empathising with opinions of shop owners, shoppers and child labourers; comparison of multi-cultural preferences vs traditional British life
Powerpoint and worksheet about the causes of Hurricane Katrina. Worksheet diagram to be completed through the lesson. Animations and videos. Differentiated question to check overall understanding.