10 Political Philosophy Task Cards to facilitate exploration of the key concepts of Government, Human Nature, Power and Control. Note: Students will either need a copy of the excerpt, or the excerpt slide shown on the board in order to complete the task cards.

A presentation that explores the key beliefs of socialism in political philosophy.

A presentation that introduces the economic axis on how to categorise economic systems in political philosophy according to capitalism and socialism distinctions.

This is a controversial lesson and should make for some great discussion. It begins with a mini IQ test, followed by a discussion about how to define intelligence. Finally, an argument based on the science of embryonic screening is presented (screening for and discarding embryos with a low IQ prediction) and a very challenging and controversial conclusion is drawn (which I in no way endorse!) which students are asked to contend with, intellectually.

A detailed lesson the Political spectrum in the UK. This lesson looks at the political left, the political right and why some of the main stream parties aim policies at the middle ground to widen their support base. Editable PowerPoint Lesson for Citizenship Studies. (60-120 Minutes worth of Material) suitable for KS3 or KS4 students. Learning Outcomes: Secure: To understand the term ideology and how it links to political parties in the UK Extended: To be able to decide if a view is from the political left or the political right Advanced: To evaluate whether the UK is more right leaning or left leaning in it current government policy Made by a team of Specialist Practicing Humanities Teachers as part of one of the leading PSHE & Citizenship Resource Providers in the UK - Cre8tive Resources . What is included in this product? Fully editable 22 slide PowerPoint Lesson 60-120 minutes Student Revision Clock Student Runix Revision Cube Mini Work Booklet on Ideologies Answer Keys: Student input creates some of the answers. Product Code CIT/C8/LS/115 Description of Product Ready-to-Use pack of classroom activities will enthuse and engage students! This lesson material is designed to be used for between one and two teaching periods and includes; activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, student hand-out (for use during lesson or as a homework), embedded URL links (where appropriate), differentiated tasks and, all relevant information to help students learn about issues relating to the topic. N.B This lesson can be taught with no printing (For those on tight budgets :) Our Philosophy We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved. With over 600 Citizenship and PSHE Products to pick from why not try looking at one of these: British Values Quiz Comparing electoral systems Voting systems and electoral reform GCSE CItizenship UNIT What is Identity

A detailed lesson about how ordinary citizens can participate in politics. The lessons look at small actions citizens can take like exercising their right to vote and all the way through to standing as a candidate for a political party. It also looks briefly at the Youth Parliament and being an active citizen. Editable PowerPoint Lesson for Citizenship Studies (60-120 Minutes worth of Material) suitable for KS3 or KS4 students. **Learning Outcomes ** Secure: To describe how people can be active citizens in the UK Extended: To understand a variety of ways citizens can get involved with political participation and strengthen democracy in the UK Advanced: To evaluate whether political participation is on the decline in the UK Made by a team of Specialist Practicing Humanities Teachers as part of one of the leading PSHE & Citizenship Resource Providers in the UK - Cre8tive Resources . What is included in this product? Fully editable 20 slide PowerPoint Lesson 60-120 minutes Assessment Activity 2 x Student Activity Continuum Exercises - Worksheets Campaign Activity Sheet Answer Keys: Student input creates some of the answers. Product Code CIT/C8/LS/113 Description of Product Ready-to-Use pack of classroom activities will enthuse and engage students! This lesson material is designed to be used for between one and two teaching periods and includes; activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, student hand-out (for use during lesson or as a homework), embedded URL links (where appropriate), differentiated tasks and, all relevant information to help students learn about issues relating to the topic. N.B This lesson can be taught with no printing (For those on tight budgets :) Our Philosophy We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved. With over 600 Citizenship and PSHE Products to pick from why not try looking at one of these: British Values Quiz Comparing electoral systems Voting systems and electoral reform GCSE CItizenship UNIT What is Identity

UPDATED FOR 2024 General Election - GCSE Citizenship 9-1: A 1 hour lesson on FPTP, PR and the philosophies of the main UK political parties. As required by the AQA spec (but also suitable content for other specs), this lesson covers: 1.The major political parties contesting UK general elections; key philosophical differences between the political parties operating in UK general elections. 2.The nature of the ‘First Past the Post’ system based on parliamentary constituencies; the frequency of Westminster elections. Other voting systems used in UK elections, including proportional systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Created for Citizenship GCSE - Politics and Participation - perfect for revision too. Includes: 1 hour PP, worksheets, exam practice question, clips, well differentiated and easily adapted. Made for AQA Citizenship 9-1 but suitable material for any of the Citizenship GCSE courses or could be used for non-GCSE British Values lessons. This lesson has been planned for Citizenship AQA 9-1 : Politics and Participation, specifically spec point 3.4.3 Where does political power reside: with the citizen, parliament or government? These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes). You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship GCSE AQA and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

This is a resource for a years worth / two terms of teaching for Political Philosophy. The resource has been made for IB Philosophy, but may also be useful for other exam boards. The content covered includes: The state of nature, particularly studying Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau Political ideologies - liberalism, conservatism, socialism (incl. communism) Anarchism The role of justice and distributive justice, particularly studying Rawls and Nozick The concept and development of rights Positive and negative liberty (Isaiah Berlin) Non-human rights The content covers a wide range of scholars with particular focus on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Paine, Marx, Rawls and Nozick. This resource includes: Multiple powerpoints, mainly split into introduction; state, society and nation; justice; and rights A student study guide to match the powerpoints A study guide inclusive of my answers which matches the powerpoint Multiple worksheets and resources for reading content Links to useful content to support teaching Example essays IB past paper questions Revision resources, e.g. game of key words, planning tools This is a comprehensive, detailed and accessible resource which is ready to teach. If you like it, please do leave a review and happy teaching!

This lesson has been created for a KS3 class (Years 7, 8 or 9) for Religious Education / Philosophy and Ethics. They could also be used at GCSE level. These resources are perfect to be used for a one hour lesson. Purchase of this lesson includes: 1 x PowerPoint This lesson is part of a unit of work exploring wealth, poverty and the distribution of wealth. This lesson is entitled ‘what would a just society look like?’ and explores the ideas of the philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick.

A detailed lesson about Politics , Governments and their ideologies. This lesson looks at the political left, the political right. Editabel PowerPoint Lesson for Citizenship Studies. (60-120 Minutes worth of Material) suitable for KS3 or KS4 students. Learning Outcomes: Secure: To be able to describe different forms of governments and ideologies Extended: To understand the political spectrum of governments (Right to left wing) Advanced: To evaluate whether a dictatorship is the strongest from of government Made by a team of Specialist Practicing Humanities Teachers as part of one of the leading PSHE & Citizenship Resource Providers in the UK - Cre8tive Resources . What is included in this product? Fully editable 20 slide PowerPoint Lesson 60-120 minutes Student lietracy Support activity 20 Exit tickets Answer Keys: Student input creates some of the answers. Product Code CIT/C8/LS/114 Description of Product Ready-to-Use pack of classroom activities will enthuse and engage students! This lesson material is designed to be used for between one and two teaching periods and includes; activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, student hand-out (for use during lesson or as a homework), embedded URL links (where appropriate), differentiated tasks and, all relevant information to help students learn about issues relating to the topic. N.B This lesson can be taught with no printing (For those on tight budgets :) Our Philosophy We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved. With over 600 Citizenship and PSHE Products to pick from why not try looking at one of these: British Values Quiz Comparing electoral systems Voting systems and electoral reform GCSE CItizenship UNIT What is Identity

168 political philosophy questions which can be chosen at random from a front screen of coloured dots. The questions cover all areas of the subject and include key quotes from a range of thinkers. Great for use as a starter, plenary or discussion activity.

Firstly, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the more than 1000 of you who have downloaded this display pack! I hope your classrooms look gorgeous! This is a complete 200+ page pack of a number of classroom displays that I have developed over the last couple of years to invigorate my department. Two updated booster packs have already been added. Original Display Pack: - Philosophers and Religious Figures Timeline (Over 40 thinkers with pictures, dates and outlines of their thinking). - Famous quote callouts to add along the timeline (one for almost every philosopher). Get students talking! - Custom-made colourful lettering for timeline eras. - Over 20 ethical and philosophical questions in colourful speech bubbles to inspire thinkers in your classroom (A great one for open-evenings or tutor time discussions!) - Steps/Levels display with optional number arrows. Department levels policy documents included. - ‘How to’ guides for all displays. Booster Pack 1: - Philosophical Language Literacy Display with sentence starters for knowledge/explanation and assessment/evaluation. - Agree --> Disagree continuum signposts to make human bar charts in your classroom! - Blooms thinking guidance for teachers with question prompts. Great for shrinking and sticking on desks or displaying at the back of the room. Booster Pack 2: - A raft of additional thinkers to give greater flexibility to the Philosopher Timeline across exam boards. - Quotes for every new thinker of course! I’ve also added another high-quality display pack covering Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/logical-fallacies-and-cognitive-biases-display-pack-philosophy-psychology-11925635

LIST OF LESSONS IN THIS RESOURCE 45a What is conservatism and what is the principle of ‘change to conserve’? 45b Why has conservatism’s view of human nature led to it being described as a ‘philosophy of imperfection’? 45c What is the conservative view of society? 45d How have conservatives viewed the purpose of the state and the economy? 46a What were the origins of traditional conservatism? 46b How did conservatism change from the 1800s onwards? 46cd How did New Right conservatism challenge traditional conservative thinking? (2-hour lesson) 47a What are the tensions within conservatism? 47b How have the key thinkers within conservatism disagreed? 47c Knowledge test 10 47d Assessment Further to the 125 lessons I have created for the UK Politics components of the Edexcel A Level, I have also created 50 lessons for the Political Ideas element of the course (Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Feminism). These lessons, designed to be taught over ten to twelve weeks, include: LIST OF MATERIALS IN THE FULL 50 LESSONS ACROSS TOPIC BUNDLES Between 2 and 4 substantial homeworks set per week (answers also provided); 8 assessment opportunities (4 in class, 4 as homework – two per ideology); 4 substantial knowledge tests, each out of 100 marks. Further reading integrated (although you will need to purchase the relevant books yourself). The core textbook for students to use is Political Ideas for A-Level (the version that includes Feminism) by Neil McNaughton and Richard Kelly (Hodder Education). I recommend buying enough for all students. Frequently, activities will reference the Pearson textbook. If you wish to do these activities, this book is Edexcel GCSE Politics AS and A-Level Student Book and eBook - worth snapping up a copy of this also. I also make use in places of Political Ideologies: An Introduction (5th ed.) by Andrew Heywood, and for Feminism I also make use of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing (edited by Hannah Dawson – easily found on Amazon) and All the Rebel Women by Kira Cochrane (available for £1.99 as an eBook on Google Books).

Based around the question 'What is Philosophy and Ethics?', this display looks at RE/ Philosophy & Ethics from different viewpoints: politics, maths, history, writing, science etc to show why RE/ Philosophy & Ethics is important today!

Religious Studies - Religious Education - Philosophy CAREERS EMPLOYABILITY JOBS Where can studying Religion and Philosophy take me in life? Powerpoint for careers week. Detailing where RE and Philosophy can leade in the world of work. Suitable for a whole lesson. Studying religion and philosophy is valuable no matter the career path one pursues, from academia to business to entertainment to politics. It is a very prestigious qualification. Many top companies look to hire religion and philosophy students as it shows employers that at a very high level you can think deeply, understand people and write essays and convincing arguments. QUESTION Why do you think employers want people who can (a)understand people, (b)think deeply and ©write essays and convincing arguments, all at a high level? Question - What are the main jobs that religion and philosophy students go into?ANSWER – The main ones are lawyer, journalist, teacher, politician, civil service, policemen, priest and social worker. Jobs which requires working with people and understanding society will require knowledge of religions and world philosophy.

A detailed lesson introducing students to American politics. PowerPoint Lesson for Citizenship Studies. (60-120 Minutes worth of Material) suitable for KS3 or KS4 students. Learning Outcomes: Secure: To understand new terms linked to American politics Extended: To understand the differences between the republican Party and the Democrat Party Advanced: To evaluate what skills and qualities are needed to be an effective President of the United States of America Made by a team of Specialist Practicing Humanities Teachers as part of one of the leading PSHE & Citizenship Resource Providers in the UK - Cre8tive Resources . What is included in this product? Fully editable 20 slide PowerPoint Lesson 60-120 minutes Student 20 Entrance Tickets Student Congress Hand out sheet Answer Keys: Student input creates some of the answers. Product Code CIT/C8/LS/125 Description of Product Ready-to-Use pack of classroom activities will enthuse and engage students! This lesson material is designed to be used for between one and two teaching periods and includes; activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, student hand-out (for use during lesson or as a homework), embedded URL links (where appropriate), differentiated tasks and, all relevant information to help students learn about issues relating to the topic. N.B This lesson can be taught with no printing (For those on tight budgets :) Our Philosophy We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved.

Edexcel ALevel Politics Component 3 USA Politics Comparative Topic 4 Supreme Court and Civil Rights This is my Introduction lesson to the Court and key terms e.g. Stare Decisis, Loose/ Strict Constructivism and Originalism. Includes a key profile of the current court for a research homework and how they ruled on key cases e.g. Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Board of Health and New York state rifle assoc. v Bruen which cover key aspects of the divisive issues in the USA today e.g. abortion rights, gun control, voting rights, immigration and campaign finance. All the SCOTUS cases I cover are useful case studies for other topics due to the synoptic nature of the ALevel course, this helps students to join the dots. I have also made a key words/ case studies sheet for student files which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/usa-politics-check-lists-and-case-studies-all-topics-12857384 These case studies cover every topic but there is a whole page devoted to the most important SCOTUS cases and rulings by the court. Note: PNG files are for illustrative purposes only, files include word documents and powerpoints which are fully editable.

168 political philosophy questions which can be chosen at random from a front screen of colored dots. The questions cover all areas of the subject and include key quotes from a range of thinkers. Great for use as a starter, plenary or discussion activity.

A quick summary of the thinkers for Realism A-level Politics. It describes what each of them believed in a way that makes it easy to memorize for the exam!