Included in this resource are three revision card checklists for Year 1 of the AQA A Level course including: Education (compulsory unit), Research Methods (compulsory unit) and Families and Households (optional unit).
The checklists list the topics they need to cover, how many revision cards they have for each topic, how well they know the topic and a teacher sign off column.
This is a lesson on Christian views on creation which focuses on the 2 Genesis stories and comparing and contrasting them.
Includes:
WALTS and WILFS
DARTS
Exam questions
Home learning
Differentiation
Formative assessment
This is a lesson that introduces humanism and its core principles. It also explains the difference between atheism and humanism.
Includes:
WALTS and WILFS
Formative assessment
Home learning
Differentiation
L4L activities
A lesson that looks at Marxist perspectives of the family.
Includes:
WALTs and WILFs
Formative assessment
Home learning
DARTs
Book referenced is the Collins A Level Year 1 book
This lesson looks at functionalist views on social policy including critiques. This would suit a single-period lesson.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative assessment
Exam question (this is the first in a series of lessons leading up to an exam question)
The book referenced is the 1st year Napier Press book.
1 mini lesson and 1 double lesson on migration and its impact on families and household structures.
Includes:
WALTs and WILFs
Home learning
DARTs
Formative assessment
Exam practice and chains of reasoning plans
Suitable for a double period, this lesson looks at Labour and Coalition social policy and compares it to New Right views on social policy.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
Exam question (this is the second in a series of lessons leading up to answering this question)
This is a lesson that focuses on exam skills.
The lesson starts with a look at the impact of the Conservative win on social policy affecting families.
Students then look at introductions and then complete a 20 mark question they have been building up to.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
Exam question
We teach the course in an interleaved manner, so this SOL touches on components of the Christianity paper, Issues of Life and Death and Issues of Good and Evil.
Topics covered:
Evil
Suffering (inc. problem of suffering)
free will
predestination
Sanctity of life
Quality of life (inc. Singer)
Euthanasia
SOL includes the following elements:
WALTs and WILFs
Retrieval practice
Formative assessment
Opportunities for extended writing/exam practice
Home learning
DARTs activities
Oracy strategies (such as think, pair, share)
This lesson looks at birth rates and explanations for a changing birth rate in the UK.
Students have already completed a home learning describing the demography of the UK.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
DARTs activity
Exam question
This covers a range of topics including:
prophethood
sanctity of life
abortion
funerals
forgiveness
angels
jihad
worship
prayer
Includes revision tasks and exam practice questions.
This is a lesson that looks at what Christians believe. It is aimed at given a basic introduction the religion for students with additional needs for which a GCSE in RE would not be suitable.
Please note: the home learning and storyboard have not been included in the resources as I did not create them. The home learning sheet was a simple cloze activity about basics of Islamic belief and the storyboard is easily found on Google Images.
Included:
WALTs and WILFs
Formative assessment
Vocab activity
DARTs activity
Retrieval 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.
This lesson looks at the UK’s links with the wider world:
Trade, culture, transport and communications
Commonwealth
EU
Includes a literacy group task to look at the pros and cons of the EU.