This lesson is a single-period lesson on race and ethnicity. Includes - key terms, discussion activities, a short clip and note-taking. Please note - you will need the textbook for this lesson.

This lesson looks at the Enlightenment, Durkheim and Functionalism with an active learning phase which creates an analogy.

This lesson looks at social mobility: what it is, different forms, how socially mobile the UK is and the effectiveness of government policies. This lesson includes WALTs, WILFS, checking (A4L) and literacy tasks. Please note: the articles/research papers are in the notes section of the PPT.

This is a mock paper that I have created for my Y11s as they have already completed the one (grrrrr) sample assessment available on the AQA website. It mirrors the sample paper throughout, but with different questions (obviously). 3 of the 4 items included in the paper are from the AQA text book so I cannot include the images of them for copyright reasons. I have, however, told you where they need to be inserted and where exactly to find them. Now includes model answers for each question.

This lesson is a single lesson that introduces poverty. Includes: definitions of poverty, how it is measured (numeracy task) and sociological explanations of poverty. The lesson has WALTs, WILFs and checking (A4L) activities.

This is a double lesson that introduces students to the concept of material deprivation and provides an overview of its impact on education. This lesson includes; defining material deprivation, facts about material deprivation and its impact on education, drawing conclusions from data, WILFs and WALTs, checking activities, literacy and writing tasks. Links to the articles/definition task are in the notes section of the relevant slides.

This is a lesson that looks at the explanations of poverty: working-class and underclass subcultures, the cycle of poverty and structural explanations. The lesson also includes a 12 mark exam practice question, checking activities and WALTs and WILFs.

This lesson looks at Marxist views on the family and education, with comparisons to Functionalism. We interleave at my school, but this will also be useful as a revision tool. Includes: WALTs, WILFs, checking (A4L), exam practice, direct instruction and student work phases.

This is a lesson that looks at the costs of education and financial barriers to university. Includes: teacher talk periods (information to prompt is on the slides), independent tasks, think pair share (oracy), checking (A4L) and a practice exam question that I have formulated (10 mark). Please note: the information referred to in the university task is from the Napier Press Book 1, but similar information can be found in other textbooks.

Whole lesson on is sociology a science? Includes DARTs and checking activites. You will need the Hodder textbook for this lesson.

Using a number of sources, this lesson looks at the link between ethnicity and crime rates, with a focus of institutional racism. The book referred to in the slides is the Hodder textbook.

This is a fully differentiated lesson that looks at evidence and explanations of ethnicity and educational achievement. Includes: WALTS and WILFS Home learning DARTS Formative assessment Exam practice

This is a lesson that looks at what it is like to live in material deprivation in the UK. The photocopy mentioned in the PPT is page 21 of the Napier Press sociology text book.

This resource is a collation of the exam questions asked in the new AQA Sociology GCSE course with the required standards for the highest level for each question.