A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7. Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle. This lesson looks at how holy books contain historical stories that we can learn from, by looking at the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism. THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.

This is the assessment feedback lesson for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world. It also contains an introduction to the next unit, ‘Should everyone worship in the same way’. The lesson begins with a multiple choice knowledge quiz, before moving on to addressing targets and redrafting their essay from the assessment lesson, using a model answer for help. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery. THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

This is the introduction lesson to a new topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world. Also available as part of a bundle. Designed for Y7. This lesson begins with feedback on the assessment to the previous topic (not yet available on TES) before giving a basic introduction. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery. THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

This is a revision lesson for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world. Also available as part of a bundle. Designed for Y7. This lesson aims to support students in revising the main response to the disciplinary question and the substantive knowledge that they need in order to address it. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery. THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

This is the assessment for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world. Also available as part of a bundle with bonus assessment feedback lesson. Designed for Y7. The lesson begins with a multiple choice knowledge quiz, before moving on to an essay question which will allow students to show off what they have learnt. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery. THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

A collection of practice exam questions, categorised by question type, complete with suggested responses on the reverse. Covers only Christianity but easily edited to include a second religion. Can be printed onto thin card and folded in half (questions are on left and answers on the right) or printed onto Avery L7165 stickers and stuck onto index cards etc.

A 'Plug and Play' lesson. This is lesson 7/10 in our unit on alternative religions and looks at the practice of Zen Buddhism. Students will analyse a clip to learn about the way of the Buddha. They will then go on to look at the practice of meditation before being guided through a meditation by the teacher. In the last half of the lesson students will have the chance to do some creative work and design their own special ritual that helps them to find peace and calm. AFL, G&T tasks and homework task included. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.

A 'Plug and Play' lesson. In this lesson students will investigate Humanism using resources from the Humanism website. Students will look at Humanist beliefs and the idea of not believing in God, but valuing human beings. AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.

A 'Plug and Play' lesson. In this lesson students will investigate Humanism using resources from the Humanism website. Students will look at Humanist beliefs and the idea of not believing in God, but valuing human beings. AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.

A 'Plug and Play' lesson. In this lesson students will investigate the religion of Kabbalah. They will begin by peer-assessing the homework due in this lesson and then after sharing the learning objectives will analyse a video clip which looks at choosing whether or not to find out the truth about life. Students will look at the Kabbalist idea that the universe is full of hidden messages and will decode a hidden message before undertaking a creative work task where they design their own hidden code.Students work in pairs to work out each-other's codes before reflecting on whether or not they could follow Kabbalah and give reasons for their response. AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.

Lesson 3 in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Literacy starter activity Students analyse a video clip to find out how Jewish people make moral decisions e.g. Ten Commandments. Cloze exercise Independent creative work based on recent news article. students apply Jewish morals to a news story. Categorising task- which rule do you think is most important? Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.

Based on the TES CPD document, 'Getting the Best out of Gifted Learners'. A set of cards which can be laminated and placed in a cardboard wallet pinned up at the front of the class. Students can either select one at random to create an alternative activity to the one that the rest of the class are completing, or they can use them as extension tasks, depending on how much time there is. I have included the label for the folder and a set of example tasks that we used for an RS lesson but we have used for History, Citizenship and PSHE lessons. They can be easily adapted to suit your subject/the topic being covered. If we don't have time to let students choose their activity, we will usually pick just one 'Bright Sparks' activity that we set as an alternative task.

Second lesson in unit on Religion and Morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in oen hour a week Students begin by responding to various moral dilemmas. Then work out if they are absolute or relative moralists. Analyse a video clip and have a class debate based on responses to the clip. Gets students to use higher level thinking skills to evaluate questions. Homework sheet and differentiated task included. Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.

Lesson four in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Reflective starter. Link to previous homework and learning. Analyse what we know already about what Christian morals are based on - 10 commandments Categorise those commandments and make links with modern Christian teachings - 2 greatest commandments Creative work based on Good Samaritan story Reflective independent work based on modern news story and how those beliefes being put into practice could have changed the outcome. Research homework Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.

Sixth lesson in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Link to homework and previous learning. Literacy task on nam japna and reflection on it's application Shared reading task on Kirat Karna and evaluate it's importance Discussion task Analysis of a video clip on Vand Chakna and Seva Application of Sikh morals to moral dilemmas Homework task. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.

Lesson 7 in a unit on morality in religion designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Categorising starter Link to previous homework/learning. Walkaround task to gather information investigated a quote from the quran to find out what it teaches analysing a story from islam to find out what it teaches Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.

Lesson 5 in a unit in morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Photo starter - empathise with the subjects in the photo Link to previous learning and homework cloxe exercise on Hindu morals mind-mapping skills to show examples of activities which conflict with ahimsa and how Hindu morals could solve them. PMI (positive, minus, interesting) a video clip on Ghandi Creative independent work based on video clip SEN and Bright Sparks (G&T) tasks included Differentiated homework sheet Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.

This is the final lesson in the unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. The sheet consists of a set of questions, each one allowing students to attain each of the Religious Education levels. Students can respond from any of the religions we have studied over the course of this unit and there is opportunity for students to respond individually to gain AT2 levels. Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department

Created for the OCR A2 2009 Spec but could be adapted. Covers Life After Death, Attributes of God, Religious Experience and Miracles.

Lesson 8 in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week. Photo starter - respond to the issue in the picture Reflection task on four noble truths - what is our behaviour like? Investigate what the eight fold path is and how it could change a person's life/behaviour Worksheet task task on reincarnation and how this can be affected by a person's behaviour Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.