Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1.5 hours) as part of a unit of work called ‘Religion and Life’ for the AQA spec at KS4. This lesson is called ‘Animal Rights’ and is L4 in the unit. This lesson can be taught as a stand alone lesson or as part of the unit.
Lesson includes:
Homework
Starter
3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
Construct (Main tasks)
Apply tasks (Exam practice and technique)
Review
Plenary
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Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1.5 hours) as part of the Christian Practices Unit. Lesson includes:
- Starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Video Activity
- Card Sort
- Worksheet
-Application Task
- Plenary
- Differentiation (where necessary)
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
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Multi-functioning resource for GCSE Religious Studies: Case Studies using these quick Who What Where When How Why cards.
Can use as a learning mat, a reference sheet, quiz cards or your own creative activity!
Revise/Study:
1. Christian Aid
2. Tzedek
3. Salvation Army
4. Martin Luther King Jr
5. Open Doors
6. Oscar Romero
7. A Rocha
8. Malala Yousafzai
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils' RE/RS education in general - which is what we're all here for!
This is a unit of 5 lessons for the OCR unit on Developments in Christian Thought: Knowledge of God’s Existence. Lessons cover a variety of tasks, activities and learner styles, geared towards the final exam. Also included is the A3 and A4 Learning Mats / Revision Mats for this topic. In addition, included for free is the Workbook for home-study and revision!
Lessons are:
Intro to Knowledge of God’s Existence
Natural Knowledge: Innate Sense of the Divine
Order of Creation
Faith and Grace
Jesus and the Bible
Also included is the Learning Mat (A3 andA4) and Workbook (Word and PDF)
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This is a 19-slide PowerPoint (pdf also included) covering the topics for the OCR unit on Philosophy of Religion.Each slide covers a topic or sub-topic and thinkers/philosophers who have a view on that particular topic/sub-topic, which students can learn for their exams. Can be used an an in-lesson resource or for independent study / revision.
Slides are:
Ancient Philosophy
Knowledge / Reality
Soul, Mind and Body
Arguments based on observation
Teleological Argument
Cosmological Argument
Arguments based on reason
Ontological Argument
Religious Experience
William James on Religious Experience
Problem of Evil
OMnipotence
Eternal God
Omniscience
Omnibenevolence
Apophatic Way
Cataphatic Way (Analogy)
Cataphatic Way (Symbol)
20th Century Perspectives
My own students use this resource whilst writing and planning essays. I also find it useful when marking them - it is a reference/guide to who says what and gives a quick insight into what could be added/argued to make improvements to essays.
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Conning pupils into exam practise since 2011…
Whole unit of Good and Evil covered in these 30 exam questions. Each exam question suggests exam technique and has a sample answer / paragraph.
Pupils choose a number from the first slide and the hyperlink takes you to an exam-style question - it’s the pupil’s choice, therefore it is not your fault when the D question comes up…!
Talk it through/write it/create a competition to see which person, team or group can devise the best answer!
Click to then reveal a sample answer!
Click to return to the question selection page
Perfect for practising quick-fire revision and exam technique.
Download in two different versions of PowerPoint, for compatibility. This should avoid any incompatibility issues.
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource. Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Resource Includes:
1. Making moral decisions
a. What is ‘wrong’?
b. Absolute morality
c. Relative morality
d. Virtue
2. Crime and Punishment
a. Crime in Britain
b. Sin
c. Cause of crime
d. Aims of punishment
e. Justice
f. Prison Chaplains
g. Capital Punishment
3. Forgiveness
a. Reconciliation
b. Jesus and forgiveness
c. Examples of forgiveness
4. What is ‘good’ and ‘evil’?
a. Christian attitudes to ‘good’
b. Christian attitudes to ‘evil’
5. Evil and Suffering
a. Evil and Suffering
b. The problem of evil and suffering
c. Holocaust
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1 1/2 hours) and explores Jewish Practices: Holy Books, including, Tenakh (Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim) and Talmud (Mishnah and Gemara).
- Starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Card Sort Chart activity
- Fill in the blank
- What makes a Torah kosher?
- Exam practise with exam technique
- Exam feedback (peer assessment)
- Plenary: Builds on starter knowledge to demonstrate progress
- Full PPT
- Lesson Plan
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 2 hours). Lesson includes:
- Gallery task starter
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Definition task
- Video Q&A
- Nature and purpose of suffering (cloze task)
- Humanist perspective (video)
- Christian values
- Exam practise, with exam technique
- Peer review
- Hot seating plenary
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 2 hours). Lesson includes:
- Who said this/what does it mean? (starter)
- 3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
- Video and question task
- CV task
- Why a 'Christian' chaplain?
- Prison reformers activity
- Exam practise, with exam technique
- Humanist attitudes plenary
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils' RE/RS education in general - which is what we're all here for!
Whole lesson (approx 1 hour) on the physical, emotional and social effects of drugs, aimed at KS3. There is larger weighting to considering the physical effects. PPT and resources encourage a safe and open learning environment for which to learn about Drugs Education. Instructions and guidance for teachers is embedded into the PPT and the resources.
Lesson includes:
1. Starter
2. Date/Title/Objective and Outcomes
3. Ground Rules
4. TPS / Discussion
5. Body activity
6. Side effects of drug use
7. Media clip(s)
8. Plenary
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Help your students to understand the command words and what is required for each question. Examples and model answers are given for each set of command words before students have the opportunity to answer the different levels of question themselves. Students then go on to writing and answering the different questions based on the topic(s) provided.
Questions are from a Christian perspective, though the resource is adaptable to include any of the six religions assessed as part of this GCSE.
Created with the AQA RS GCSE in mind. Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Whole lesson on Jewish personal worship, created with the new GCSE in Religious Studies (WJEC / Eduqas) in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this physically engaging and informative lesson.
- Definition task: Worship
- Marketplace Activity explores:
1. Amidah
2. Mezuzah
3. Kippah
4. Tallit
5. Tefillin
6. Shema
7. Siddur
- 'Convince me' activity
- Exam-style question with some scaffolding
- Beat the teacher plenary
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Resources and video included in the lesson download. Intended as a KS3 lesson.
Lesson includes:
- Starter
- Aims and outcomes (3D Learning objective)
- Definition
- Video activity (and questions)
- Market place activity
- Letter activity
- If this is the answer, what is the question? plenary
- Lesson plan
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Resource includes:
1. Information about the covenants (and What is a covenant?)
2. Abrahamic covenants
3. Moses
4. Importance of Moses
5. Ten Sayings
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Explore five of Jesus’ parables:
Good Samaritan
Unforgiving Servant
Rich Young Man
Sheep and the Goats
Talents
Each parable comes with activities and reflection questions to help the students to understand the key teaching behind each story.
Resource includes:
- Christian beliefs about the soul
- Humanist beliefs about the soul
-Are humans born sinners?
- How do we get to heaven?
- What happens when we die?
- Judgement, Heaven and Hell
- Humanist Attitudes to Judgement, Heaven and Hell
- Funeral Rites (Christians)
- Funeral Rites (Non-religious)
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this resource.
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
Lesson intended as a double lesson (roughly 1.5 hours) as part of a unit of work exploring who exactly Jesus Christ was with KS3. This lesson is called ‘Was Jesus the Son of God?’ This lesson can be taught as a stand alone lesson or as part of the unit. This is Lesson 4 in the series.
Lesson includes:
Homework slide (for editing)
Starter
3D learning objectives and differentiated outcomes
Construct activities to build knowledge
Apply activities to use knowledge
Plenary
embedded differentiation (where applicable)
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Lesson 5: Festivals in Islam, from the scheme of work entitled Islam: Practices.
Can be taught as a stand alone lesson or as part of the unit. Aimed as a KS4 unit, taught with time restrictions (aim of getting through the whole unit of Islam: Practices in a half term/7 weeks)
Lesson includes:
Starter
Homework
Learning objectives and 3D learning outcomes
Presentation
Construct Activities
Application Activities
Plenary and reviews
Embedded differentiation (where applicable)
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!