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!!!!!!! Most of my resources are adaptable and original!!!!!! I try to give clear descriptions about each resource. If you have any issues, please ask and I am happy to email out additional templates free. My shop stocks mainly Power-points and day to day lesson resources for the all the Humanities subjects. Psychology resources are also available. Please spare a minute to rate my resources, especially the free ones! I would appreciate knowing how useful they are. Thank you.

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!!!!!!! Most of my resources are adaptable and original!!!!!! I try to give clear descriptions about each resource. If you have any issues, please ask and I am happy to email out additional templates free. My shop stocks mainly Power-points and day to day lesson resources for the all the Humanities subjects. Psychology resources are also available. Please spare a minute to rate my resources, especially the free ones! I would appreciate knowing how useful they are. Thank you.
Pirates - a geographical enquiry
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Pirates - a geographical enquiry

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These resources are for a double lesson. It is suitable for Y9 students considering opting for GCSE geography. It includes learning outcomes and stretch and challenge tasks. There are clips about the problems of piracy and activities that encourage geographical thinking, as well as opportunities to develop map skills and ask geographical questions.
Marvelous Maldives
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Marvelous Maldives

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Final lesson of the amazing places unit. This locates the Maldives and focuses on tourism and the ecology of the islands and the problems of development.
Debates and Approaches In Psychology. One power point with accompanying student handout.
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Debates and Approaches In Psychology. One power point with accompanying student handout.

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The resource has 3 sections, the power point gives an overview to be used in a lesson/tutorial, it contains information about why students need to know and be able to write about debates and approaches in psychology. Teachers can work through it as a whole group or students use the handout to complete each slide. The handout gives detailed explanations of the debates and approaches in psychology, students use this to complete the power point slides. Teachers can vary how they use these resources. The 3rd resource is simply some prompt posters to support writing longer answers in the A level exam.
Tour of The UK
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Tour of The UK

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Year 7 geography. These resources will take up 2- 3 lessons and offer a range of differentiation. They encourage group research and presentation and over 2-3 hours are designed to develop skills as well as build knowledge about the diversity of the UK. Includes all the supplementary resources that are needed to deliver the learning planned and outlined on the slides. I assigned students into groups of 3-4 using Kagan principles. I was observed by my HOD and a lead inspector on this lesson and got an outstanding!
Football and Religion
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Football and Religion

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This is a power point lesson encouraging students to use a range of higher level skills to explore the similarities between football and religion. It has a range of clips and activities all the tasks have the printable templates as part of the slide show. There is also a word document for the conversation task where students work in pairs. Starter - completed an open sentence task Linking task - print out the slides with pictures of football and also religious images, students study these and write about how they link on the diagram Video clip - watch and discuss fans of football linking it to religion Conversation task - use the word document template, students work in pairs. Plenary - cloze task to explain understanding
The noble eight-fold path
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The noble eight-fold path

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A complete lesson and resource. This follows on from the 4 noble truths lesson. Could be used over 2 lessons. There is lots of content and opportunity to discuss the steps and apply them to real life. Students match the steps to show understanding of what each one is about for Buddhists. There is an extended writing task where students apply their understanding of one of the steps. Here i provide a model answer and give a target of 15 lines of writing. Finally there is a homework task where students must create a book of happiness, like those little books you see near the tills at waterstones.
Your Carbon Footprint
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Your Carbon Footprint

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A complete set of resources including a power point and set of student hand outs and worksheets to investigate what they know about carbon footprint and how they can work out theirs. This lesson could link to climate change and develops awareness of what we can all do. There are 5 different learning activities included, identifying and categorising key words in the starter, a whole class opinion line (with symbols to print out for this), an activity where students calculate their individual carbon footprint, a creative thinking task where students are given 15 energy saving tips hand out and have to illustrate them but using a limited number of words. Their is a peer assessment task and the review task encourages students to write a pledge about how they can reduce their carbon footprint which links back to the starter. Also the lesson can be easily differentiated and can fit with KS3 topics.
A complete lesson with activities and video clips to introduce ethics
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A complete lesson with activities and video clips to introduce ethics

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A complete lesson with activities and video clips to introduce ethics. Used for year 9 RE, the lesson introduces the idea of utilitarian ethics through a funny starter clip with questions to discuss. Then puts in context the big picture of the learning. Following this is another clip which applies utilitarian ethics to a scenario. Students then work through some questions to lead into how we know right from wrong. The next activity looks at 4 ethical issues for students to reflect on. Finishing with a summary report to apply their knowledge and understanding. This could also be set as a homework.
A real life ethical dilemma
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A real life ethical dilemma

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I used this with Y9 students as lesson 2 of a unit on ethics. It is a real life story of conjoined twins who were separated. it includes a whole lesson and resources that need to be printed to accompany the activities on the slides. It focuses on religious views and should gradually reveal the full story of what happened. it has web links to the press coverage of the story which can be adapted and used as homework or differentiated up to create research.
Descriptive Statistics - Types of data and choosing a statistical test for psychological research.
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Descriptive Statistics - Types of data and choosing a statistical test for psychological research.

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This is a lesson and a set of student resources in one. The background slide gives the lesson the context then there is a mnemonic to enable students to learn and recall the types of data in psychological research. This is followed by a flowchart diagram showing how to choose the correct statistical test. Finally there is a partially filled task to show students how to decide on which data and test to use to be applied to existing studies they have covered, or for them to design their own research. All the slides should be printed and used in a tutorial style interactive lesson.
Freud's Psycho-dynamic Approach to Gender Development
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Freud's Psycho-dynamic Approach to Gender Development

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A power point lesson for the teacher/tutor to lead and explain. Contains all the background to Freud’s theory. Id, Ego, Super -ego, the psycho-sexual stages of development, the Oedipus and Electra complexes and the Little Hans study. There is a student template for planning an essay question on Freud. The slides can be used in a variety of tasks and can be printed for students to make notes of create a development “timeline” for each stage or make a storyboard of the complexes.
Research Methods Student Activities
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Research Methods Student Activities

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A set of student worksheets about case studies, correlations, experimental methods, observations and self report methods used in psychological research. Some contain research scenarios for students to design their own studies. Others contain short activities.
Ethical issues - humans and animals
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Ethical issues - humans and animals

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Use with Y9 as the 4th lesson of a whole ethics unit of work. Independent learning is the focus of this lesson once the broader issues have been discussed. The worksheets attached also offer scope to study religious views about uses of animals. This can easily be differentiated up to create stretch and challenge by comparing the 4 world view’s opinions about the use of animals. You could also introduce pair/group work/presentations using the resources.
Resources to enable the delivery of the new spec OCR Cognitive Development Unit
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Resources to enable the delivery of the new spec OCR Cognitive Development Unit

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New OCR spec: These lessons cover the key concepts of Assimilation and Accommodation, plus Piaget's stage theory, evaluation, exam practice and Conservation of number core study and evaluation. Everything to get you started on the new OCR cognitive development unit. Plus a student workbook. The lessons can be split up further into up to 6 or more lessons and have enough information to easily convert to worksheets or student research tasks.
2 Complete lessons to introduce R.E.
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2 Complete lessons to introduce R.E.

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2 complete lessons in the powerpoint format, together with a linking chart worksheet to assess prior knowledge. Useful for Year 7 to assess prior learning and understanding. Leads to discussion and activities about beliefs covering attainment targets 1 and 2. Following on from this is a lesson about god, introduces the ideas of atheism and agnostics. Includes clips and activities to explore reasons for belief.
Relationships Scheme of Work
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Relationships Scheme of Work

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Each power point is a whole lesson and is supported by the documents where needed. All the lessons have learning outcomes and opportunities for assessments. Some have links to clips and a variety of discussion and written activities. The unit is aimed at year 9 or 10 students.
Religion and The Environment Scheme of Work
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Religion and The Environment Scheme of Work

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This bundle contains lesson to cover a half term or longer. The them is Religion and how it links to the environment. it contains whole lessons based in the power point format, plus documents, clips and worksheets to support the lessons. Each lesson has clear learning outcomes and opportunities for assessment for learning. It could be used in any KS3 year and easily differentiated.
What Can We Learn From The Holocaust?
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What Can We Learn From The Holocaust?

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Lesson containing a range of activities and verbal/peer assessment opportunities to demonstrate learning and understanding. The lesson focuses on some facts but is more about developing empathy and understanding. Each slide in the power point contains a stimulus and or a task that is aimed a full class discussion, then individual reflection, onto pair work and the opportunity for group work. There is also a template for the interpretation task and a print based set of questions that can be used to differentiate the lesson.