Everything students need to know for all ethics content for the new AQA A Level for RE - i print these as a handy stapled booklet in A4, for students to use as a basis for revision and check their work. Each KO contains practise questions for students to complete once they have revised the topic.
Topics covered:
Natural Moral Law & application to human and animal life and death.
Situation Ethics & application to human and animal life and death.
Virtue Ethics & application to human and animal life and death,
Bentham and Kant
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
A 14 page booklet, written in the style of a text book, to support students in creating a dialogue between Buddhism and ethical issues on the specification. Buddhist ethics are compared and contrasted with these views, with space for students to make their own dialogues.Issues discussed are:
Theft
lying;
marriage;
homosexuality
transgender issues;
genetic engineering.
wealth,
tolerance and freedom of religious expression.
A supporting powerpoint is attached to help students think about structuring exam questions.
this is designed with the AQA dialogues paper 2A in mind, but could be adapted for other specs with synoptic papers.
Ready to teach lesson allowing for recapping of Determinism, Libertarianism and Compatiblism. Covers essential A01 and A02 knoweledge for AQA Philosophy and Ethics year 2, but could be adapted to other specs.
Ready to teach lesson on Meta Ethics, A01 explanation and A02 strengths and weaknesses of Divine Command Theory, Ethical Naturalism and Moral Intuitionism.
Tasks for students throughout focused on exam explanation.
Developed for AQA but can be used for other specs.
Ready to teach lesson on religious experience with blank knowledge organiser for students to use as they go along. This was planned for AQA A Level RE (year 1 Philosophy Content) but could be adapted for other specs.
11 lessons for the RE AQA A Level spec (could be adapted to suit other specs) - focus is on explaining and evaluating the Ontological, Cosmological and Design Arguments, within the context of philosophical argument and considering the value for faith. There are revision resources and model answers included in the pack, as well as references to the new AQA text book, so a copy will be needed to support these lessons.
An overview lesson with corresponding worksheet to help students recap the theodicies that respond to the Problem of Evil (logical and evidential) with a crib sheet for students to fill in. A level (AQA) Unit 1 Philosophy and Ethics
Everything students need to know for the AQA RE Unit Arguments for the Existence of God, in one handy double sided revision sheet, with exam questions to practise.
A ready to talk through lesson outlining key questions that can be considered when applying Natural Moral Law, Situation Ethics and Virtue Ethics to issues of human and animal life and death, as outlined on the AQA Spec for RE, unit 1 Philo and Ethics. includes an explanation of all the ethical issues and direct revision ideas for each.
Ready to run through PPT explaining different views on religious language and how religious believers can respond to the Verification and Falsification Principles proposed by Logical Positivism. AQA A level unit 1 philosophy of religion.
Ready to run through PPT explaining realist and anti-realist views on miracles, comparison of Hume and Wiles, and evaluation points. AQA A Level Philo of Religion unit 1.
Revision lesson with blank knowledge organiser for students to complete as they go - focusing on AQA RE A Level Unit Problem of Evil and Responses (logical and evidential problem, Free Will Defence, Vale of Soul Making and Process Thought).
Revision session for AQA RE A Level unit Arguments for the Existence of God. Ready to teach/run through or can be used by students individually to revise. Focuses on 7 key questions for success for each argument: Ontological, Cosmological and Design.
How is God defined?
What type of reasoning is used?
What evidence is given?
What criticisms are there?
Has the philosopher proven anything?
How does the argument help faith?
Is it a strong argument?
A fully resourced revision lesson for AQA RE A Level, plus a fill-in-the-gaps knowledge organiser for students to complete as they go or for homework. fully resourced, ready to teach.
A lesson and knowledge organizer covering all the essential aspects of the AQA spec for A Level RE. Fully resourced and ready to teach. KO is fill-in-the-gaps and can be completed as students go in the lesson or for homework. This can easily be adapted for other exam boards.
A set of resourced lessons for AQA RE Year 1 content: Philosophy - Evil and Suffering. Covers all theodicies and contains revision resources.
Please note that these resources do require use of the new AQA A Level Year 1 text book.
New and updated for 2019-2020:
Fully resourced unit of work, 10 lessons with PPTs, model answers and revision resources including a knowledge organiser.
Please note that some activities do require use of the AQA text book, Year 1 RE AS Level (new spec), but could be adapted for other specs.
6 lesson series with power points, worksheets, revision resources and model answers. There are 2 full lessons per PPT.
Please note that some activities do use the AQA new textbook for RE A level which you will need to have a copy of.