Ethics: Complete Unit (RE/RS)

This is a complete unit of work introducing students to the idea of ethics and how to make ethical decision, including utilitarianism and applying what they have learned to the issue of organ donation using Christian and Islamic beliefs This resource includes 11 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons).It was designed for Year 9 in my school, but would be suitable for any KS3 year. There’s a range of different resources and activities to keep students engaged and encourage independent learning.

MINIMAL PRINTING

It includes:

• A tracker for the whole of my Y9 schemes of learning, featuring this as the first unit
• Progress map for students to highlight after each assessment in the year
• Common misconceptions and how to respond to feedback advice page
• Why are we learning this? Page
• An administration lesson with an introduction to ethics
• General ethics lesson
• Are goodness and pleasure the same? - Utilitarianism lesson
• Evaluation of Utilitarianism as ethical theory
• Are we more than mere matter? lesson
• Religious views on organ donation (x2 lessons)
• What should we do with the runaway train? Ethical dilemma lesson
• How ethical is artificial intelligence lesson
• A key skill test opportunity to provide students with feedback on the skill ‘evaluate’ before the assessment
• A factual recall test opportunity (link to a microsoft form)
• 'Evaluate’ 12-mark question marking sticker templates (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
• An assessment lesson with the opportunity for stretch and challenge (called an ‘excellence task’)
• A DIRT lesson including model answers, feedback sheet and stretch and challenge questions
• 4 pieces of fully resourced homework (1 skill based, 1 research based, 1 revision based for a factual recall test, and 1 revision based with a knowledge organiser and practice assessment questions)

All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’ and differentiation is present in the form of sentence starters, excellence challenges and model answers.
This is complete and ready to teach! Non-specialists have used it and followed it with ease.

Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
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