PSHE, Citizenship, RE, SMSC Lessons + Teaching Resources
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2 hour, fully resourced lesson which focuses on capital punishment, its legal status around the world, the moral and religious arguments for and against and the history of the death penalty. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHCE or Religious Education as an introduction to the topic, or could be used as a standalone lesson as something different for a drop-down-day. This lesson gained an outstanding when it was observed.
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The pack includes a 2 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow.
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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?
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An hour long, fully resourced lesson focusing on the rising problem of students taking part in money laundering. This lesson investigates what this is and why people do it as well as making students very clear of dangers and legal consequences. This pack includes a Powerpoint, worksheets, clips, all well differentiated. 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).
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Trade Unions lesson which can be used for Citizenship GCSE 9-1 as an introduction to Trade Unions, or could easily be used as part of your Careers - world of work resources.
Includes a 1 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, information sheets, clips, all well differentiated - suitable for KS3/ KS4.
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) and are designed to last one hour each.
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An hour long, fully resourced PSHE lesson with a focus on discouraging anti-social behaviour, gang + mob mentality, and explaining consequences (legal and social) as well as why some young people still do it. This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. 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).
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This lesson could be used for PSHE, Citizenship or Life Skills. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources
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1x hour PowerPoint and worksheets with clips, well differentiated and easily adapted. This lesson focuses on how and why young people get trapped into joining gangs and what life is like once they’re in them. It also examines the law and the short-term and long term consequences for gang-members and victims of gang crime. Also includes optional baseline progress checker if you need to do a pre-learning and post-learning assessment.
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) and are designed to last one hour each.
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A detailed and well differentiated lesson which covers both content for AQA Citizenship GCSE 9-1 covering content for:
3.3.3 How has the law developed over time, and how does the law protect the citizen and deal with criminals?
Factors affecting crime rates in society and strategies to reduce crime.
Differing forms of punishment available in the UK
The effectiveness of differing types of sentence.
How the youth justice system operates.
The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information pack, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment mark-scheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow.
The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :)
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A Medical Ethics Unit lasting 12 hours (one lesson is a double) that was created for Year 9 RE, but could easily be used for a capable Year 8 or none-GCSE KS4 group.
Each lesson is very detailed, editable and differentiated three ways with colour-coded challenge tasks for every activity. The lessons are very easy to follow as all the instructions are on the PowerPoints and worksheets. Each of the individual lessons have had excellent reviews so far.
The unit includes:
What are the religious and ethical views on abortion? A lesson exploring the pro-choice and pro-life debate and introducing the concept of sanctity and quality of life.
What are the religious and ethical views on euthanasia? A lesson examining the quality vs sanctity of life debate in detail while examining types of euthanasia and religious views on these.
Stem Cell Research - an investigation into embryology and the controversial issues surrounding the science. The lesson investigates how scripture can be applied to these issues and why there is so much debate.
Capital Punishment and The Death Penalty - a two hour lesson which focuses on capital punishment, its legal status around the world, the moral and religious arguments for and against and the history of the death penalty.
Drugs and morality - a lesson exploring the moral and religious debate around drug use before examining religious quotes and practicing GCSE style exam questions.
Genetic Engineering - an overview lesson on test tube and designer babies as well as religious objections to the technology, with a focus on Christianity and Islam.
An detailed article with differentiated comprehension questions all about the ethics, morality and faux-science of the anti-vaxxer movement.
Why do some religions have objections to particular medical technologies and procedures?
IVF - what is this and what are the different religious views towards it?
What do Islam and Christianity believe about medical death?
Religion and science - are they forever destined to work against each other, or can they work together?
Assessment, feedback and mark scheme
Scheme of work
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|Consent and Law KS4 PSHE - 1 hour, fully resourced lesson which establishes the importance of consent and clear sexual boundaries. It investigates the different types of sexual crimes and provides case studies for analysis. The lesson includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE / RSE or Tutor Time for KS4. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
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4 hours of fully resourced, PSHE / Financial Literacy lesson packs all about debt, money problems and how to avoid getting into tricky financial circumstances.
Lessons included:
1: What is debt? How can we manage our personal finances to avoid getting into debt?
2. What are payday loans? Why do people take them out and how hard are they to pay back?
3. Why do people use credit cards? What are the positives and negatives and how can we use them responsibly?
4. What is money laundering? Why is it illegal and how are some criminals tricking students into hiding their money?
All lesson packs are complete with a detailed PowerPoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students. All created using PSHE Association guidelines.
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24 hours+ (around 140 resources, all worksheets, powerpoints and everything totalled up) of Citizenship GCSE 1-9 revision and lesson content. This revision + lessons Mega Pack also contains 2 x exam question generators. Used for AQA but content covered by OCR and EDEXCEL too. Huge bundle of lessons, revision booklets to be given out in the lessons or as revision materials later, past question practices, differentiated 1-9 activities, campaigning packs and a fun GCSE question generator.
Suitable for GCSE Citizenship 9-1 easily adapable (all editable formats)
Different level tasks for MA,LA or Core
Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above.
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Updated! 24 hours of content (in 20 downloads) - 24 x fully resourced hour long lessons, an assembly, a quiz and 5 displays. All differentiated throughly to three levels, with 45 worksheets to go along with PowerPoints. Created to help any school meet all British Values requirements with ease.
All lessons are fully resourced, highly-rated British Values and Citizenship lessons for KS3 / KS4. All are complete with accompanying worksheets, clips and activities that are well differentiated to three levels.
It’s worth checking your downloads on this if you buy it because I keep adding to it and then you get the new downloads all free.
**Just added - a version of the Identity lesson suitable for low ability / SEN or KS2. This was used with a Year 7 Nurture group. **
I use all of these myself as a Head of Citizenship and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
There is enough material here to create numerous off time-table days for different year groups to cover all the British Values / SMSC / Citizenship KS4 and KS3 requirements.
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Law Citizenship Resources: 1 hour long PowerPoint, 5 worksheets, clip and questions - for Citizenship, PSHCE or a Drop Down Day. Includes starter handout and worksheets, suitable for KS3/4, with a variety of different level tasks for MA,LA or Core .
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ONE YEAR OF RESOURCES - Be ready for the new 2020 DfE guidelines! 1 Year’s worth of Yr 9 PSHE resources! Now 36 x fully resourced, highly-rated PSHE lesson packs (and one hour-long quiz) and units created to fit the new DfE 2020 Guidance for PSHE and the PSHE Association’s new additional topic suggestions.
All 36 lesson packs (bundled into 20 separate downloads) are complete with at least one hour-long Powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow.
There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows PSHE Association 2020 SoW for Year 9.
You can also find this pack at the EC Publishing website.
I use all of these myself as a Head of PSHE and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team. You can find the other ‘one year of PSHE’ packages for all of the KS3 groups at my store.
I also have a 1 YEAR OF CITIZENSHIP bundle (37 lessons) available here:1 Year’s worth of Citizenship
and I have a 1 YEAR OF RE bundle (36 lessons) available here:1 Year’s worth of RE
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KS3 RE COMPLETE PACKAGE from EC Publishing- Includes lessons, assessments and schemes of work. mark schemes, feedback sheets, homework projects, all divided into half terms. Contains new and exciting content, all written with consultation of a collection of UK city SACRES, so the pack follows the instruction that RE should be ‘in the main, Christian’ (this is about 60%).
All of the content is in the three ‘Complete’ downloads, but some of the lessons included have also been added as single resources so you can get a good look at the content. The pack is also available on the EC website at a discounted price.
All lessons are complete with at least one hour-long PowerPoint per lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, GCSE -style prep-tasks, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout.
Units covered:
Year 7
1 Introduction and overview lesson
2) Religious Festivals
3) Christianity
4) World Religions - Beliefs , Life and Death
5) Sikhism
6) End of year RE fun lesson
Year 8
Exploring Islam
Exploring Judaism
Exploring Hinduism and Judaism
Religion, Peace and Conflict
Philosophy and Ethics
Religion and the Afterlife
Year 9
New religions, alternative movements and cults
Exploring Christian denominations
Religion, science, medicine and ethics
Religion and Human Rights
…
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE + RE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete Year 7 and 8 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
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MORE ADDED! 11 x Risk + Safety Citizenship / PSHE resources: 11 x fully resourced lessons all complete with starters, worksheets, clips, differentiated to three levels throughout.
Suitable for KS3/4 but could be adapted.
I use all of these myself as a Head of PSHE and I really hope you find them excellent value.
1. Risk Taking
2. Relationships and Sexting
3. Personal Safety PSHE (when out and about)
4. Online Grooming
5. Acid Attacks
6. Personal Safety - First Aid
7. Internet Safety and Social Media
8. Money Laundering
9. Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery
10. Drugs - Festivals, Clubbing and Parties
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Detailed, editable and easy to follow. Includes: 1 hour PowerPoint, clip, worksheets, differentiated fully with worksheets, case studies, clips with questions and activities. Suitable for KS3/4 easily adapted for either. Students will discover their consumer rights in UK, complete a variety of case study tasks, watch clips and aswer the differeniated questions before returning to the starter's original scenario to demonstrate their new knowledge.This lesson can be used for KS3 / 4 Citizenship or PSHE or as an introduction to the subject for GCSE Citizenship.
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Citizenship/PSHE resources: a differentiated task where students plot the journey of British Democracy on a graph.
There is a full lesson which goes with this available here:
Full History of British Democracy Lesson
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A KS4 PSHCE lesson which serves as both an introduction to the concept of disability discrimination in UK law and in depth examination of the 2010 Equality Act. The lesson, created by MACS Charity with EC Resources, allows students to investigate the benefits to society of the 2010 Equality Act by studying cases of discrimination in schools, workplaces and the wider world.
These resources also serve to highlight how MACS charity (Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia and Coloboma Support) helps children with visual impairments and prepares them for life as independent and disabled UK citizens.
The lesson lasts around 2 hours and includes differentiated activities, case study investigations, literacy focus and debate tasks, clip tasks and group activities as well as guidance to show how the lesson meets sections of the new PSHE draft curriculum from the DfE for 2020 and the statutory Citizenship curriculum for KS4.
The lesson is in the Zip File - the images have been uploaded so you can clearly see what the lesson includes.
MACS is a charity for young people who were born without eyes or with underdeveloped eyes, so the assemblies focus on the importance of valuing our vision and how we should treat everyone with respect and without prejudice.
For school fundraising resources, MACS bunting and masks and further information, please visit the MACS website: https://macs.org.uk/schools-pack-downloads/
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Exam practice question and mark scheme for Citizenship GCSE 9-1.
This was created as part of this two hour lesson for Citizenship GCSE 9-1 with a focus on:
3.4.4 How do others govern themselves?
Key differences in how citizens can or cannot participate in politics in one democratic and one non-democratic political system that is outside the UK.
The full lesson can be found here.