This taster lesson is designed to introduce prospective students to sociology. It covers what the subject of sociology is, what the A level exam entails and the types of topics that are studied. It includes some ‘lesson samples slides’ which are mini tasks taken from typical A level lessons. It also includes a ‘build a society’ task which allows students to begin to explore the different perspectives.

What you may need to be familiar with in studying this course. A guide to students as to what they will be learning over the course and what they need to learn. This could also be used by teachers as a guide to planning lessons.

WJEC AS Level Sociology, Unit One: Introductory Core This is a list of concepts that the student should understand and be able to explain using relevant examples and with reference to sociological knowledge. This list can be printed for student folders and display

A thorough and comprehensive revision booklet for the education section of the paper 1 exam, which covers all content they need to know. It includes information for students, and 7 activities ranging from crosswords to essay planning. Last year I published booklets which only included the advanced info, so I have updated them this year to include everything! They worked really well last year to make sure that students were revising early on, and I’m sure they will be as succesful this year too. I will be using this in lessons with students- instructions on how I plan to do this are in the booklet. May need the latest version of word or you might need to play around with the formatting. I’ve also uploaded as a pdf to avoid any trouble. I really hope this is useful to you!

This lesson looks at contemporary issues in the family for the AQA specification, including: Quality of parenting Relationships between adults and teenagers Care of the elderly 3 mark question with teacher response

This lesson looks as some of the key issues regarding research methods.

Sociology Escape Room Quiz - End of year fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive ‘Escape room’ experience. Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term. There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction to work out who has stolen the presents this Christmas. The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more… Sociology Escape Room is fully editable and takes less than 1 Minute to set up. Sociology Underwater Expedition Escape Room Contents ☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge ☞ Optional Escape Certificates ☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead) Common FAQ’s ★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180) ★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!) ★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil. How to run this Sociology escape Challenge This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice. The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections. Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation. Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle. Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish. Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes. Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully (Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.

Introduction to Sociology Includes discussions, activities and HW Supports the New AQA GCSE Sociology UPDATED NOV 2022

Sociology Escape Room - Crime and Deviance - Digital Escape Room for KS3 or KS4 students. This escape room has taken between 15 -20 hours to create from scratch. The Escape Room follows a detective agency theme where students will have to solve a series of puzzles based around the central topic / theme of this quiz. As well as solving puzzles they will have to answer a series of bonus questions testing their subject knowledge to the max! As students complete each puzzle they receive a piece of evidence to help solve the mystery. Teams must be careful as they are racing against up to 5 other teams via an interactive PowerPoint displayed on the board to see who will escape first!! This Escape Room is a great way to have an education treat lesson for your students and make learning new topics / or consolidating old ones fun! The Escape Room is fully editable so you can chose to adapt the vocabulary and questions if you wanted. This Escape lasts an hour or under depending on how quick students can solve each puzzle! C8/ES/406 Each Escape Puzzle is designed by our subject specialist. How can this resource be adapted for social distancing? Upload / send the sheets digitally so students who can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so) Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework Pairs instead of groups Product Contents: ☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display ☞ Escape Room Evidence Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams) ☞ Escape Room Detective sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms ☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles) ☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly ☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts. ☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams ☞ The 7 Rooms each have subject specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and are suitable for a variety of students ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰

A booklet that can be used alongside PowerPoints created by myself (see shop and shared Google Drive), introducing students to the first Eduqas module. The booklet is full of activities, model answers and exam questions.

Booklet and handout for the crime topic on paper 2 of aqa gcse sociology. Very popular with my students

A thorough and comprehensive revision booklet for the families section of the paper 2 exam, which covers all content they need to know. It includes information for students, and 18 activities ranging from crosswords to essay planning. Last year I published booklets which only included the advanced info, so I have updated them this year to include everything! They worked really well last year to make sure that students were revising early on, and I’m sure they will be as succesful this year too. I will be using this as home learning for my students over the coming half term, and have included a schedule with their deadlines which can easily be adapted to suit your class May need the latest version of word or you might need to play around with the formatting. I’ve also uploaded as a pdf to avoid any trouble. I really hope this is useful to you!

Looks at the overview of sociology - gets the students thinking about society as a whole with lots of tasks for the students to discuss why they have taken sociology.

Literacy sheet with key word, image and definition for key terms in Sociology of Education for Sociology Included; Role of, In-school processes, Policy, Gender, Ethnicity and Social Class.

This resource is designed to introduce students to Sociology at GCSE. This lesson helps students to identify what a social issue is in preparation for their future studies. The particular focus of this lesson is to briefly introduce students to poverty and crime as a social issue and the influence they have on modern society. All tasks are colour coded to allow for differentiation either through student choice or teacher direction and there are links to video clips included.

Very easy to teach for non specialists and specialists, can also apply to any exam board. This lesson introduces key concepts in sociology. It can be used at A level/GCSE to generate understanding of sociological language. This is a whole lesson which includes worksheets, activities and powerpoints.

The introduction to the sociological approach, key words defined for the first part of content. Research methods key words part two.

Presentation set for the ‘Functionalism’ topic of the ‘theory and methods’ unit. Contains activities, all the key knowledge, and assessment. Worksheet included to go along with the PowerPoint.

Good PP on all key sociological theories