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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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GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units)
Christianity (Thematic Studies Units)
Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units)
Islam (Thematic Studies Units)
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GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
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AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
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Philosophy for Children (P4C)
The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack
The Debating Society Toolkit
Philosophy Boxes
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Other Tools
A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!)
KS3 RE Units
This complete lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Relationships & Families' theme.
This download includes:
-An editable PowerPoint file
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet (.doc)
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
This lesson is designed to be used with an ICT/Computing Suite: students will need access to computers for this lesson as it is based around them creating a PowerPoint presentation.
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Religious Studies resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to contact me: godwin86@gmail.com - if you have any questions or requests.
PLEASE NOTE:
Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This is the eleventh in a series of lessons on Hinduism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course.
It is designed for AQA and OCR specifications but relevant to all GCSE Hinduism Religious Studies teachers .
The Download (comprising 2 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 Homework Task
This lesson focuses on:
-The Hindu concept of Avatars (Avataras)
-Rama & Krishna as Avatars of Vishnu
-Sectarian Differences in Beliefs about 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
We also have learning mats, revision sessions, and much more!
Thank you for your download!
Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson 8 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section; it refers to the ‘Factors Affecting Criminal & Deviant Behaviour’ topic.
The lesson focuses on links between criminality and ethnicity. It addresses the question: “Are the apparent differences in crime rates are caused by racial prejudice and discrimination in the police force and judiciary?”
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson (editable)
-A double-sided A4 worksheet
-A 10 side knowledge-hunt
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new AQA specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.
This download contains a selection of assessment materials for AQA GCSE Religious Studies, Theme E: 'Religion, Crime & Punishment'. There are three separate assessment lessons (designed for 1 hr slots) in this download.
The download includes:
-An assessment lesson PowerPoint Presentation (with timer)
-3 x assessment options
[an A3 double-sided assessment worksheet and four practice exam questions (on two separate worksheets)]
-A collection of assessment and feedback tools [including an exam scoreboard, self/peer marking worksheet, a target-setting sheet].
This lesson can be used by any AQA GCSE Religious Studies teacher covering this theme; it was designed to be ninth lesson in our ten-lesson unit for this theme. It has enough resources to be uses for 3 individual 1-hour assessment lessons!
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the assessment worksheets)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This is the ninth 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.
This lesson, being a general overview of Hindu sacred texts, is not specification specific.
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 A3 worksheet
-A 14 Page 'Knowledge Hunt' (.doc) with colour pictures, outlining 'Interesting Facts' and extracts/quotes from the four main Hindu sacred texts.
-Background music for SMSC/Behaviour Management during the knowledge hunt
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on Hindu sacred texts, and the 'Sources of authority' aspect of your specification.
The lesson provides students with an overview of and selected readings from:
The Vedas, a collection of hymns praising the Vedic gods. Veda means 'knowledge'
The Ramayana, long epic poems about Rama and Sita
The Mahabharata, which includes the Bhagavad Gita
The Puranas, a collection of stories about the different incarnations and the lives of saints
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 complete lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Religion, Peace & Conflict ' theme.
This download includes:
-An editable PowerPoint file
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet (.doc)
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
This lesson is designed to be used with an ICT/Computing Suite: students will need access to computers for this lesson as it is based around them creating a PowerPoint presentation.
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Religious Studies resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to contact me: godwin86@gmail.com - if you have any questions or requests.
PLEASE NOTE:
Minimum system requirements: 512MB RAM, 1.5ghz processor. Microsoft Office.
This fully resourced video-learning lesson was designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Religion, Peace & Conflict' theme (Theme D). It is lesson 10/10 of our downloadable units for GCSE RS Thematic Studies.
It is a great 'instant lesson' and is useful both to RE specialists and as an emergency cover lesson led by non-specialists: all you need to do is print out one of the included worksheets and run the PowerPoint - which will link you to carefully selected videos about the topic!
Aside from links to carefully selected videos; this download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-AfL tasks
-SIX video-learning worksheets (.doc or .pdf)
-A detailed lesson plan
The worksheets are specially designed 'Video-Learning Worksheets' that structure students' learning whilst they use documentary evidence to research a subject: three of the worksheets are A4 and the other 3 are A3 size (all double-sided!).
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
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System Requirements:
Internet Access
Access to YouTube
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This is the sixteenth in a series of lessons on Buddhism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A].
The complete series of GCSE Budhism lessons, as well as learning mats, PLCs and revision sessions can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
The Download (comprising 2 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 Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification:
The Sangha (The Community)
• The meaning of the term Sangha as one of the Three Jewels
• The role and importance of:
• Monastic sangha
• Lay sangha
• The Ten Precepts observed by monks and nuns
• The ordination of women into the monastic sangha
• The common and divergent emphases placed on the sangha by different Buddhist groups, including the rules observed within monasteries
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Buddhist groups
Sources: Dhammapada 360–369
Thank you for your download!
Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This is the seventeenth in a series of lessons on Buddhism for GCSE level students for the ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’ section of the course [section A].
The complete series of GCSE Budhism lessons, as well as learning mats, PLCs and revision sessions can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
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
-A double sided worksheet
-A Knowledge-Hunt
-A Homework Task
The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification:
The origins, associated stories and customs of the following festivals:
• Wesak or Hanamatrsui (Therevada/Mahayana)
• Vassa/Rain Retreat (Therevada)
• Uposatha Days (Therevada)
• Parinirvana day (Mahayana)
• Lama Tsong Khapa Day (Tibetan)
• The importance of marking different parts of the Buddha’s life
• The purpose of Vassa and its observance by lay Buddhists today
• The purpose of Uposatha days
• The purpose of festivals not connected to the Buddha directly, the popularity of these festivals and their place within Buddhism, including the Lama Tsong Khapa day
• The influence of local culture on practices associated with Buddhist festivals
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Buddhist groups
Thank you for your download!
Positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
This download contains a selection of assessment materials for AQA GCSE Religious Studies, Theme F: 'Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice'. There are three separate assessment lessons (designed for 1 hr slots) in this download.
The download includes:
-An assessment lesson PowerPoint Presentation (with timer)
-3 x assessment options
[an A3 double-sided assessment worksheet and four practice exam questions (on two separate worksheets)]
-A collection of assessment and feedback tools [including an exam scoreboard, self/peer marking worksheet, a target-setting sheet].
This lesson can be used by any AQA GCSE Religious Studies teacher covering this theme; it was designed to be ninth lesson in our ten-lesson unit for this theme. It has enough resources to be uses for 3 individual 1-hour assessment lessons!
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
____________________
System Requirements:
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
Printing (for the assessment worksheets)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
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This is the third in a series of lessons on Buddhism for GCSE level students for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course [section A]. It is suitable for all exam-boards.
The complete series of GCSE Budhism lessons, as well as learning mats, PLCs and revision sessions can be downloaded at our TES Shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
Lesson 3 deals with: The 12 Links (Nidanas), Dependant Origination, Reincarnation.
• The meaning of the term: dependent origination or conditionality
• The relationship between dependent origination and the cycle of samsara (rebirth)The 12 links (nidanas) and how one leads to the next over three lifetimes
• Common and divergent emphases placed on the theory of reincarnation by different Buddhist groups, comparing Tibetan Buddhist and Zen Buddhist views: crucially, whether reincarnation refers to a process occurring after bodily death, or whether it refers to what we would consider to be one life (but Buddha, potentially, viewed as multiple lives that last for individual fleeting moments.)
• Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Buddhist groups
• A focus on The Wheel of Life
• Evaluation of the theory of reincarnation.
Sources:
• Dhammacakkappavattana sutta (Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in motion)
• Dhammapada 35–36 and 334–336
• Nandakovada Sutta 7–10
• The Tibetan Wheel of Life
The Download includes:
-A PPT Containing a Full Lesson
-A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key-words, differentiation, and lesson timeline.
-A worksheet and 'Knowledge Hunt' printout (to be put around the classroom prior to the activity)
-Two videos which are linked directly to the learning tasks in the PPT.
-A Homework Task
Thank you for your download!
Please download our other lessons as a part of this GCSE Buddhism course from our shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/godwin86
This download was created for Religious Studies teachers teaching about Buddhism at GCSE Level. It may also useful for teachers at KS3 level who are covering Buddhism.
The learning mats contain detailed information about:
-Buddhist Symbols
-The Noble Eightfold Path
-The Five Precepts
-Buddhist Worship
-The Wheel of Life
-The Six Realms of Existence
-Essential Keywords
The second of the three learning mats includes a complete PLC (designed for the OCR B specification, but easily customisable for alternative specifications).
Ideally there mats are laminated and placed on the desks of students. They can be used for:
-Learning activities
-Revision Aids
-Differentiation tools for assessments
-Prompts for exam practice.
-Prompts for discussions and debates
-Knowledge hunt activity resources
This KS3 Hinduism homework booklet contains ten homework tasks: it is designed to be printed as a ten page (22 side) booklet.
The booklet serves as a general introduction to Hindu philosophy and ethics and focuses on essential religious terminology. It should comfortably take care of a term’s worth of homework for any KS3 students studying Hinduism.
The homework booklet includes integrated self-assessment and reflection tasks and a built in assessment table that should make marking the homeworks very quick and easy.
Included is an editable Word (.doc) version and an easy-print (.pdf) version for your convenience.
This is the first in a series of homework booklets we hope to be releasing over the coming months, if you would like to request a specific theme or topic for future releases please get in touch.
Make sure you join our new KS3 RE & P4C community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KS3RE/
This printable workbook has been created for GCSE Sociolology students. I have created one workbook for each of the four main units of the course.
This workbook is for the Social Stratification section. It is designed for the AQA specification and adapted for the WJEC/EDUQAS specification (two versions of the workbook are included in the download)
The workbook contains the following:
Student Progress-Check Tasks
A Personal Learning Checklist
Activity 1 - Mind-Map Overview Task
Activity 2 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 3 - Key-Work Match & Listing Tasks
Activity 4 - Online Research Tasks
Activity 5 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 6 - Bare-bones Essay Planning Task
Activity 7 - Creative Tasks (Posters & Poetry)
Activity 8 - Investigate & Report (Newspaper Article Task)
Activity 9 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 10 - Essay-Planning Activity
Activity 11- Essay Assessment
Extension Tasks (Many!)
It contains 25+ sides of activities and is designed to be printed as a double-sided workbook. The file is in editable .doc format in-case you wish to make any amendments (e.g. changing the exam questions).
The workbook is not designed to be a comprehensive: it includes selected readings and covers some (not all) of the topics listed in the specification.
If you are happy with your purchase and leave a 5* rating for this TES resource, please email me ( godwin86@gmail.com ) and I will send you a FREE ‘Revision Strategy Battle Planner’ which will be useful for your Year 11 students.
Visit gcsesociology.com for more GCSE Sociology resources!
Copyright Adam Godwin (2020) - strictly not for redistribution.
This fully resources lesson focuses on the topic of 'Responses to Crime & Capital Punishment', it also highlights the issue of corporal punishment (both of children and of criminals).
This lesson was professionally designed for the new AQA Religious Studies GCSE specification. It is for the 'Religion, Crime & Punishment' theme (Theme E).
It is a great 'instant lesson' and is useful both to RE specialists and as an emergency cover lesson led by non-specialists: all you need to do is print out one of the included worksheets and run the PowerPoint - which will link you to carefully selected videos about the topic!
Aside from links to carefully selected videos; this download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint
-AfL tasks
-SIX video-learning worksheets (.doc or .pdf)
-A detailed lesson plan
The worksheets are specially designed 'Video-Learning Worksheets' that structure students' learning whilst they use documentary evidence to research a subject: three of the worksheets are A4 and the other 3 are A3 size (all double-sided!).
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
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The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
____________________
System Requirements:
Internet Access
Access to YouTube
Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word)
512MB Ram
1.5GHZ Processor
____________________
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson 13 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section.
The lesson focuses on forms of punishment, prisons, and the aims and effectiveness of the prison system.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson (editable)
-A double-sided A3 worksheet (.doc)
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new GCSE specifications, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson 12 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section.
The lesson focuses on Cohen’s theory about delinquent subcultures, gangs, and organised crime.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson (editable)
-A double-sided A3 worksheet (.doc)
-A3 Group-Work Sheets (.doc)
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new GCSE specifications, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson 9 of our 20 lesson course for the ‘Sociology of Crime & Deviance’ section; it refers to the ‘Factors Affecting Criminal & Deviant Behaviour’ topic.
The lesson focuses on links between class, poverty, inequality and crime/criminality. It addresses the question: “Is poverty the main cause of crime?”.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson (editable)
-A double-sided A4 worksheet
-A 12 side knowledge-hunt
-Homework
All lessons are designed around the new AQA specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.
This fully resourced lesson is professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192). This resource can now be downloaded as a part of a complete 20-lesson bundle.
This is lesson number 1 of our 20 lesson course for this section- it is designed to introduce the requirements of the ‘Social Stratification’ unit and its central debates.
The download includes:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-6 x A3 Silent Debate Worksheets (.doc, editable)
-An A4 student information sheet explaining the required learning for the unit (.doc, editable)
-A premium quality PowerPoint presentation (fully animated) that covers the entire lesson
-A homework task
All lessons are designed around the new AQA specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.