ISLAM PRACTICES: SALAH - PRAYER # FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY): • Explain why Muslims pray • Explain how Muslims pray • Explain why Friday prayers are important • Explain differences of prayer between Shia and Sunni Muslims I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

ISLAM PRACTICES: SHAHADA # FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, multi-media and games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY): • List the five pillars of Islam • Explain the meaning and importance of the Shahada in Islam • Evaluate why it might be the most important pillar I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

FAITH THEOLOGY EVALUATION: KNOW. OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT) #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, games to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY): EVALUATE WHETHER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CAN BE KNOWN THROUGH FAITH ** Fully resourced activities include: ** Customisable recap starter, paired discussion (using support resources) how can faith give us knowledge of God? Mindmap: Aquinas/Catholic Church view of faith with Bible quotes, Quote interpretation: sola fide. Comparative analysis: Protestant/Catholic view on faith, Peer discussion: do you agree with the claims of the key philosophers? Why/why not? Explain and evaluate Dawkins claim, Explain and evaluate Hume’s claim, Essay planning mind map task. A02 writing task: “Faith is all that is necessary to know God.” Evaluate with reference to success criteria. I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

EVALUATING REVEALED THEOLOGY: KNOW. OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT). #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks, games and multi-media to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: Assessment and extra challenges throughout. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO (WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCE OF AUTHORITY): EVALUATE WHETHER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CAN BE KNOWN THROUGH REVEALED THEOLOGY Fully resourced activities include: Customisable recap starter, Discussion: why might we agree/disagree with Karl Barth? Video and List reasons why the Bible might be reliable/unreliable, self-assessment (answer on slide), video learning: list Bible contradictions, Peer discuss The difference between propositional revelation and non-propositional revelation (liberal view) and how the latter avoids the problem of biblical contradictions. Essay planning mind-map task. A02 writing task: God is ultimately revealed through Jesus Christ in the Bible.” EVALUATE BARTH’S STATEMENT I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

EVALUATING NATURAL THEOLOGY: KNOW. OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT). #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: assessment and extra challenges throughout. Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): Evaluate whether knowledge of God can be known through natural theology **Fully resourced activities include: ** Customisable recap starter, recap task on why each type of theology is helpful to believers, pairs complete table: list sources of authority and their claims/evidence (followed by self-assessment, answers on slide), group discussion on weaknesses of claims, Bible analysis an interpretation tasks. For each truth claim of natural theology students will learn the main criticisms and add these to table, they will give high order evaluation (how strong are these criticisms?) Essay planning, A02 writing task with success criteria. I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

REVELATION (FAITH & GRACE) KNOW. OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT) A LEVEL • A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of multi-media, games and tasks and to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: assessment and extra challenges throughout. Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): Explain the view that Christians can know God by revelation through faith and grace Fully resourced activities include: Customisable recap starter, Video learning: what is faith? What does faith reveal about God? Explain different philosophical perspectives on faith. Draw illustrations to show Bonaventure’s view on how God is known. Bible quote analysis task, comparative analysis: Kierkegaard/Bonaventure, A01 writing task, A02 writing challenge. I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

REVEALED THEOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT). #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks and to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: assessment and extra challenges throughout. Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): Explain the view that Christians can know God through revealed Theology Fully resourced activities include: Customisable recap starter, Matching: truth claims to revealed/natural theology, Matching: Biblical examples to immediate/mediate revelation, quote interpretation, Bible Analysis and evidence task: how is God revealed through: Biblical events, wisdom literature, Prophets, visions, the person of Jesus, creation accounts. Study and discussion of Old Testament prophecies, essay planning (mindmap). A01 writing task and A02 writing challenge. I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

NATURAL THEOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (DCT) A LEVEL. #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of tasks and to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. • Resource light, concise and easy to follow. Date on slide updates automatically • Suitable for specialists and non-specialists. Emphasis on exam skills: assessment and extra challenges throughout. Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): Explain the view that Christians can know God through Natural Theology Fully resourced activities include: Customisable recap starter, create illustrations to demonstrate views of Polkinghorne and Boyle, sort quotes into natural / revealed theology, group discussion (sensus divinitus, conscience as proof of God), mind-mapping of key thinkers and claims, A01 writing task, A02 evaluation challenge. I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

This assessment lesson complements the ‘Islam Beliefs #FUN LESSONS’ bundle and can also be used independently. It includes: Assessment sheet with 5 questions worth 24 marks. Mark scheme: Easy to follow suitable for specialists and non-specialists Support slides: 10 minute revision exercise and writing frames and success criteria to display during the test.

5 Exam style questions worth a total of 24 marks.

This is to accompany the ‘Christian Practices # MAKING LEARNING FUN’ Bundle.

Christian Festivals: Christmas/Easter #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: ‘Christian Festivals: Christmas/Easter’ – Christian Practices’ Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): • Explain how and why Christians celebrate the festivals of Christmas and Easter • Evaluate which festival is the most important Activities/resources include: Recap do-now starter – Dobble a variety of tasks e.g. Easter Egg (info) hunt, nativity plays, sorting games, model answers. To gain an in-depth understanding of: • The events of the incarnation • The events of the incarnation • Bible quotes references to incarnation/resurrection • How Christmas/Easter is celebrated • The Symbolism of Christmas and Easter celebrations • evaluating which is the most important I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

‘Christian Practices – Revision lesson’ is a concise and easy to follow. It is a fun lesson to recap on the content. Students should be learning without realising it! Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: Christian Practices - Revision Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): • Engage in lots of fun game to revise for test. To prepare and present multiple views on a variety of statements with a strong religious reference. ** Activities include: FULLY RESOURCED** • Articulate game • quotes master game (sorting) • presentation game: students are required to give reasons for and against variety of statements and include a strong religious reference • pub quiz (without the beer!) and peer assessment HOME LEARNING TASK I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

Pilgrimage: Christian Practices #FUN LESSONS. A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. It covers GCSE content as well as A Level material to stretch and challenge. There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: ‘Pilgrimage – Christian Practices’ Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): • To explain reasons for pilgrimage in Christianity • To explain two contrasting examples of Christian pilgrimage • Evaluate which is the most important practice in Christianity Activities/resources include: Customisable recap do-now starter a variety of tasks e.g. Tour Guide presentation, quiz, discussion, exam questions. To gain an in-depth understanding of: • Importance of pilgrimage • Three places of pilgrimage: Lourdes, Iona, Jerusalem • A level stretch: religious experience • recap all Christian practices along with reasons why they are important and relevant sources of authority • Evaluate which are the most and least important Christian practices • I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

Christian Response to Persecution: Christian Practices. An engaging lesson with a variety of games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. It covers GCSE content as well as advanced material to stretch and challenge. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: ‘Christian Response to Persecution – Christian Practices’ Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): • Explain How and WHY Christians respond to persecution Activities/resources include: Recap do-now starter: Sort events of Jesus life in chronological order a variety of tasks e.g. World map activity, letter writing, discussion, video, discussion. To gain an in-depth understanding of: • Persecution in early Christianity • prevalence of persecution of Christians in the world today • Christian responses to Persecution • Bible teachings related to responses to persecution I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation – Christian Practices (#FUN LESSONS) A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. It covers GCSE content as well as advanced material to stretch and challenge. There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: Forgiveness and Reconciliation – Christian Practices’ Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): With reference to Bible teaching, The Trust and Reconciliation Committee and the Community of the Nails of the Cross: • Create a collage entitled ‘Reconciliation and Peace” in Christianity • Answer Exam Question: Two reasons Christians should focus on reconciliation. Activities/resources include: Customisable recap do-now starter a variety of tasks e.g. student presentations, collage, video, discussion, exam questions. To gain an in-depth understanding of: • Bible teachings about forgiveness and Reconciliation • Difficulties and advantages of reconciliation • Case studies: Desmond Tutu and apartheid / Community of the Nails of the Cross • How Christian teachings have influenced those to work for reconciliation I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

Mission & Evangelism, Discipleship CHRISTIAN PRACTICES (# FUN LESSONS) A fun and engaging lesson with a variety of games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. It covers GCSE content as well as dipping into some linked A Level material to stretch and challenge. There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: Mission &Evangelism - Christian Practices AQA Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): Explain the Christian duty of discipleship Explain the difference between evangelism and missionary work using examples of each. Evaluate which is the most important Christian duty discipleship or charity Activities/resources include: Customisable recap do-now starter a variety of tasks e.g. Carousel, video, debate, group planning and exam questions. To gain an in-depth understanding of: • The Great Commission and duty of discipleship • Examples of evangelism / missionary work and the difference between these • Exclusivist, pluralist views • An evaluation of whether the duty of discipleship is more important than the duty of charity I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.

Role of Church Local/Worldwide - CHRISTIAN PRACTICES. (#Fun Lessons) . A fun and engaging lesson with a variety to games, tasks and use of multimedia to stimulate learning**. It is ‘MASTERY’ ‘and EXAM SKILLS focused. You’ll find it concise and easy to follow making it suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. There will be an emphasis (and modelling) of key skills needed in exam questions. Assessment and extra challenges throughout Date on slide updates automatically / Resource light / Easy to follow & Suitable for non-specialists SUITABLE FOR DELIVERING: ‘Role of the Church – Local/Worldwide – Charity’ Christian Practices AQA Students will be able to (with reference to source of authority): • With reference to sources of wisdom: • Explain two ways the Church work for the local community • Explain two ways the Church work for the worldwide community • Evaluate whether charity begins at home Activities/resources include: Customisable recap do-now starter a variety of tasks e.g. Mastermind, create a TV Commercial, 5 mk questions and model answers to gain an in-depth understanding of: • The difference between Church and church • Parable of the sheep and goats / parable of the Good Samaritan • Street pastors / food banks - **You can edit the info sheet to give examples of churches in your area that provide foodbanks ** • Christian Aid / Oxfam I hope you enjoy teaching this lesson. Your feedback is most welcome.