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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
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This is the Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for the religion of Hinduism for GCSE level students following the OCR Full-Course Specification: for the 'Beliefs, Teachings &; Practices' section of the course [section A].
In other words: it is a PLC covering the topics students need to know for the first year of study, for the religion of Hinduism
If you are teaching this religion for OCR R.S. - this is a great tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student's confidence and reflective abilities.
The Personal Learning Checklists (PLC):
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
This resource is for Religious Studies teachers covering the religion of Christianity at GCSE level.
It is based on the OCR/AQA specifications 2016/7 onwards, all content is linked to the specification as it is designed as an exam preparation and revision tool.
The download includes:
-11 A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (for the Beliefs and Teachings section)
-11 A3 Silent Debate worksheets (for the Practices section)
-A Presentation file with: full instructions for revision sessions, two different approaches to using the worksheets (one silent, one discussion based), three plenary slides/activities to choose from, instructions for an optional exam question practice at the end.
This resource is:
-An easy and effective way to structure revision sessions
-Based around formulating arguments for and against given statements and is therefore perfect for practising analysis and evaluation
-Easily customisable and reusable (just change the statements you wish for students to discuss)
This resource is for Religious Studies teachers covering the religion of Judaism at GCSE level.
It is based on the OCR/AQA specifications 2016/7 onwards, all content is linked to the specification as it is designed as an exam preparation and revision tool.
The download includes:
-11 A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (for the Beliefs and Teachings section)
-11 A3 Silent Debate worksheets (for the Practices section)
-A Presentation file with: full instructions for revision sessions, two different approaches to using the worksheets (one silent, one discussion based), three plenary slides/activities to choose from, instructions for an optional exam question practice at the end.
This resource is:
-An easy and effective way to structure revision sessions
-Based around formulating arguments for and against given statements and is therefore perfect for practising analysis and evaluation
-Easily customisable and reusable (just change the statements you wish for students to discuss)
This resource is for Religious Studies teachers covering the religion of Islam at GCSE level.
It is based on the OCR/AQA specifications 2016/7 onwards, all content is linked to the specification as it is designed as an exam preparation and revision tool.
The download includes:
-11 A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (for the Beliefs and Teachings section)
-11 A3 Silent Debate worksheets (for the Practices section)
-A Presentation file with: full instructions for revision sessions, two different approaches to using the worksheets (one silent, one discussion based), three plenary slides/activities to choose from, instructions for an optional exam question practice at the end.
This resource is:
-An easy and effective way to structure revision sessions
-Based around formulating arguments for and against given statements and is therefore perfect for practising analysis and evaluation
-Easily customisable and reusable (just change the statements you wish for students to discuss)
This is the second in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A].
It is designed around the OCR specification and is therefore suitable for teachers using the AQA specification (which is a less detailed equivalent to the OCR spec) and highly relevant to GCSE Religious Studies teachers regardless of the specification used.
The Download (comprising 6 files, within one zip file) includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline
-A double-sided worksheet
-A 'Knowledge Hunt' file for the main activity.
-2 Video Files (evidence for Reincarnation)
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: "Reincarnation and The cycle of birth, life and death'
• The meaning of the terms:
• Samsara
• Maya
• Detachment
• Moksha
• The significance and interconnection of Samsara, Maya, Detachment and Moksha
• The relationship between rebirth in samsara and karma
• Common and divergent understanding and emphases given to these concepts by different Hindu groups, including the possibility of being jivan mukti (liberated while alive)
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Sources:
• Bhagavad Gita II 11–13
• Bhagavad Gita II 27
• Mahabharata XII 240
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
The 20-Lesson GCSE Buddhism course (rated 5 stars) can also be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-buddhism-ocr-b-aqa-20-lessons-very-high-quality-complete-resources-lesson-plans-worksheets-presentations-11410236
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Perfect for starting PSHE debates in form-time, assemblies or classes.
The download includes:
-11 A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (about central PSHE issues)
-A Presentation file with: full instructions for PSHE sessions, two different approaches to using the worksheets (one silent, one verbal discussion based), three plenary slides/activities to choose from.
This resource is:
-Based around formulating arguments for and against given statements and is therefore perfect for practising higher order thinking skills of analysis and evaluation
-Easily customisable and reusable (just change the statements you wish for students to discuss)
-Great for lessons, assemblies, debating societies, or as a form/tutor time activity.
-Usable in virtually any subject after customisation
-Perfect for starting philosophical debates and discussions on PSHE issues
-Linked to the PSHE Curriculum
The worksheet can either be set as a homework task or to structure an IT-Suite Lesson.
It asks students to create presentation with quiz questions and lists differentiated options for them to choose from. The reverse of the A4 sheet features peer-assessment tables for students to rate one another's work according to specified criteria.
The download also includes a PPT with instructions (needing minimal customisation) and AfL slides.
The lesson should, ideally, use 40 minutes for students to create the presentation in pairs and then 20 minutes to quiz and peer assess one another.
The worksheet is easily customisable to other topics.
This is the fifth in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A].
It is designed around the OCR specification and is therefore suitable for teachers using the AQA specification (which is a less detailed equivalent to the OCR spec) and highly relevant to GCSE Religious Studies teachers regardless of the specification used.
The Download (comprising 5(+) files, within one zip file) includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline
-12 Page colour knowledge-hunt (place around the room)
-Images for poster design task (4 page word document)
-Background music (Aum Chants and Tibetan Singing Bowls) to play during the poster design task (SMSC)
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification:
Manifestations of the Divine
• Different ways of understanding Brahman, with attributes (Saguna Brahman) and without attributes (Nirguna Brahman)
• The connection between concepts of Brahman and Hindu practices, including Hindu deities as manifestations of Saguna Brahman
• The role and importance of the Trimurti and the Tridevi, including the concept of Shakti and the relationship between male and female deities
• The role and importance of Avatara as the incarnation or manifestation of deities in a particular physical form
• The role and importance of Murti as the focus of worship and as an expression of an actual presence
• The significance of Avatara in different Hindu traditions
• Common and divergent emphases placed on manifestations of the divine by different Hindu groups
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Smriti and shruti scriptures
• Stories of the gods acting within the world
• The avatars of Vishnu
• The Ramayana
• The Bhagavad Gita
• Jesus and the Buddha as avatars
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
Thank you for your download!
Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This download is for a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for the Moral Philosophy section of the new AQA Philosophy specification (AS-level).
It features a double-sided worksheet, focussed on a checklist with all of the topics listed for this section of the course in the AQA Philosophy Specification (7171).
The .zip file contains a Word document: so the resource is fully customisable.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student's confidence and reflective abilities.
The Personal Learning Checklists (PLC):
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
This is the eighth in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A].
It is designed around the OCR specification and is therefore suitable for teachers using the AQA specification (which is a less detailed equivalent to the OCR spec) and highly relevant to GCSE Religious Studies teachers regardless of the specification used.
The Download (comprising 4 files, within one zip file) includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline
-Double-sided A4 worksheet
-A3 Silent Debate group worksheets
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification:
Human Concerns [Duties/Virtues/Yamas]
• Hindu understanding of the concepts of free will, suffering and virtue, including their relationship to karma and samsara
• The meaning and importance of Hindu virtues/ moral duties (yamas), including harmlessness/ non-violence (Ahimsa), compassion (daya), selfcontrol/restraint(dama) and giving (dana)
• The relationship between virtues and particular elements of dharma
• Common and divergent emphases placed on human concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified as of core importance
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Sources:
Mahabharata V 39
Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1–3
Bhagavad Gita VIII 8–12
This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course! The complete series of GCSE Hinduism lessons can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
Thank you for your download!
Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This download is for a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for the Epistemology section of the new AQA Philosophy specification (AS-level).
It features a double-sided worksheet, focussed on a checklist with all of the topics listed for this section of the course in the AQA Philosophy Specification (7171).
The .zip file contains a Word document: so the resource is fully customisable.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student's confidence and reflective abilities.
The Personal Learning Checklists (PLC):
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A personal learning checklist (PLC) for the new AQA specification: ‘Beliefs, teachings & practices’ section, with reference to Christianity.
The first side is a PLC with two ways for the student to rate confidence and the second side features a key-word check as well as various DIRT tasks.
This double-sided A4 worksheet is great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Individual Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheet:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A personal learning checklist (PLC) for the new AQA specification: ‘Beliefs, teachings & practices’ section, with reference to Catholic Christianity.
The first side is a PLC with two ways for the student to rate confidence and the second side features a key-word check as well as various DIRT tasks.
This double-sided A4 worksheet is great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Individual Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheet:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A personal learning checklist (PLC) for the new AQA specification: ‘Beliefs, teachings & practices’ section, with reference to Islam.
The first side is a PLC with two ways for the student to rate confidence and the second side features a key-word check as well as various DIRT tasks.
This double-sided A4 worksheet is great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Individual Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheet:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A personal learning checklist (PLC) for the new AQA specification: ‘Beliefs, teachings & practices’ section, with reference to Judaism.
The first side is a PLC with two ways for the student to rate confidence and the second side features a key-word check as well as various DIRT tasks.
This double-sided A4 worksheet is great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Individual Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheet:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
A personal learning checklist (PLC) for the new AQA specification: ‘Beliefs, teachings & practices’ section, with reference to Buddhism.
The first side is a PLC with two ways for the student to rate confidence and the second side features a key-word check as well as various DIRT tasks.
This double-sided A4 worksheet is great for:
-Revision lessons
-AfL
-Fostering teacher-student dialogue
-Directed Individual Reflection Time (DIRT)
-Exam preparation
This is an ideal tool for your students to help them keep track of their learning, and help you monitor the classes strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a highly efficient form of self-assessment.
On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities.
The worksheet:
-Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam.
-Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped.
-Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade.
-Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on their necessary revision focusses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the: ‘Soul, Mind & Body’ [Plato & Aristotle] section of the specification. Part of the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the: ‘Arguments based on Reason’ section of the specification. It refers to the ontological argument and challenges to it. It refers to the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
Designed for teachers using OCR Religious Studies AS/A2 specification (H173/H573)
This revision session covers the ‘Problem of Evil’ section of the specification. It refers to the problem of evil and theodicies as detailed in the specification. The topic is a part of the ‘Philosophy of Religion’ third of the AS course.
This download is one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Religious Studies Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as pat of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
The Philosophy Boxes Method is a new approach to P4C designed for students in KS1, 2 & 3: it is graphically stimulating, engaging, and fun. This download is also suitable for older students: but the format was designed with younger students in mind.
The topic of this Philosophy Boxes download is 'Citizenship: “What does it mean to be a good citizen?”
The aim of Philosophy Boxes is to bring philosophy and critical thinking into every subject at every level: we believe that any subject becomes philosophy when students are asked the right questions and when they think about a topic hard enough and on the deepest (most fundamental) level.
The Philosophy Boxes Method presents students with a set of ‘mystery boxes’, when a student selects one of the boxes they are presented with 1 of 21 discussion/debate activities [that use 1 of 8 different formats].
The presentation has integrated AfL so that teachers can test knowledge at any point in the lesson. There are 10 different AfL slides to choose from.
The design is colourful, animated, fun and engaging: all activities require movement and teachers can decide whether students are expressing their ideas purely verbally or by using post-it notes.
The nature of the design is that it can be used for short sessions (5-10 minutes) or much longer sessions (up to 2 hours!) - it allows for classroom practitioners to be flexible and adaptable. It can, therefore, be used in lessons or as a tutor-time activity.
The download includes a PowerPoint Show; if you would like an editable PPT presentation so that you can make your own ‘Philosophy Boxes’ presentation you will need to download the template here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-the-philosophy-boxes-method-template-for-creating-your-own-philosophy-boxes-lessons-p4c-p4k-11463227
A complete selection of Philosophy Boxes lessons can be found here: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?&q=philosophy+boxes+godwin86
You can also save money by purchasing lessons as bundles.