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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
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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 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
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This download is part of a four-lesson series on:
-Atheism & Agnosticism
-The Secularisation of Society
-Humanism
-Non-Religious Ethics & Values
The series is designed as an essential component of GCSE Religious Studies courses: regardless of the primary religion(s) studied. It is an ideal way to provide your students with additional perspectives for 12/15 mark answers: as all specifications now allow students to compare religious worldviews with non-religious ones.
This lesson is focussed on Humanism; the objectives of the lesson are:
-To describe what Humanism is
-To explain the main beliefs Humanists hold
-To analyse and debate Humanist beliefs
Implicit objectives include:
-To identify common humanist objections to religious influences on society, law and politics
-To draw out (through debate) the motivations Humanists have for rejecting religion and religious beliefs.
The download includes:
-A full lesson PowerPoint Presentation designed to the highest professional standard
-A complete lesson plan, stating: differentiation, key-words, objectives and a detailed timeline of activities.
-A double-sided A4 Worksheet
-A double-sided A4 Homework Worksheet
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or for further details.
This download was created for Religious Studies teachers teaching about Hinduism at GCSE Level. It may also useful for teachers at KS3 level who are covering Hinduism.
4/5 designs have Personal Learning Checklists (for the Hinduism section of the course) incorporated so that students can casually remind themselves what they need to know and take remedial action.
Ideally learning 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
They are also easily adapted into posters for walls/displays.
End of term lesson planning made easy! :D
This bundle contains three Christmas quizzes, one for AQA Philosophy classes, one for Sociology classes and one for Religious Studies classes.
They are for students at KS4-5 level.
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GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit)
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Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit)
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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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A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!)
KS3 RE Units
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 ‘Who Am I? - The Philosophy of Identiy’.
The download comprises a P4C lesson/session that can be used 2-3 times with the same group.
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.
I went through all my old resources to find relevant files for the ‘The Existence of God & Revelation’ theme of new specification and compiled them into this 90+ file bundle. Resources focus on Christianity but I will be making new resources for Buddhism soon.
Please note: most of the video files have been removed from this download due to space limitations (the maximum upload is about 200mb) - but the video files are all available on YouTube.
Update: 2018
Please note that I have now released updated resource packs for the ‘Thematic Studies’ component of the GCSE course.
These can be found be clicking here.
They are considerably higher quality, better value and generally superior to these older files in every way so have a look!
This download outlines a term-by-term and week-by-week teaching schedule for the new AQA Sociology GCSE (2017 onwards).
It has 7 sides, the first outlines how 2 years of teaching should be divided, the remaining pages suggest topics of teaching on a week-by-week basis.
I have designed resources for EVERY ASPECT of this course, just visit this URL to see them and save yourself a lot of time: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?q=GCSE Sociology GODWIN86
A Personal Learning Checklist [and DIRT worksheet] for A2-Level Religious Studies (new specification).
Based on the OCR specification, for the Philosophy of Religion section of the course
This worksheet allows for a complete review of learning for the Philosophy of Religion section of the A2-Level course.
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
-Checking key-word knowledge (literacy)
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 focuses.
-Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.
This bundle contains 18 revision sessions. The content covered by the sessions is the complete KS5 'Philosophy of Religion' and 'Religion & Ethics' material for both AS and A2 level under the new OCR specification.
Bundles for specific religions you may be covering can be purchased separately. This download is relevant to all KS5 Religious Studies teachers using the OCR specification as it deals with the philosophy and ethics components of the course.
The sessions use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover the designated 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 part 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.
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**Philosophy for Children (P4C)**
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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 bundle contains 5 revision sessions, designed to cover the ‘Work, Poverty & Welfare’ section of the new AQA Sociology specification.
The revision sessions feature:
-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.
Each session follows the same format, they can be:
-Used 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
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.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2017) [Godwin86] godwin86@gmail.com
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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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A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!)
KS3 RE Units
This collection of 17 lessons is for GCSE Religious Studies teachers who are teaching Christianity & Buddhism. It is for Theme B of the AQA Religious Studies specification: Religion & Life.
It includes 10 lessons about Christian beliefs and 7 lessons about Buddhist beliefs. It also includes three bonus resources that I hope will be useful to you.
Lesson 1-10 (Christianity)
1) Introduction
2) Central Debates
3) Christian Views About The Origins & Value of The World
4) Christian Views About The Origins of Life
5) Animal Ethics & Animal Testing
6) Abortion & Christianity
7) ICT Suite Lesson
8) Euthanasia & Christianity
9) Assessment Lesson
10) Unit Overview (Video-Learning Worksheet Lesson)
Lesson 11-17 (Buddhism)
11) Abortion (1)
12) Abortion (2)
13) Euthanasia (1)
14) Euthanasia (2)
15) Animal Experimentation
16) Unit Overview (Buddhism)
17) Unit Overview (Buddhism)
Each lesson is fully resourced and includes a lesson plan, homework, AfL tasks. Most lessons are based around professionally designed A3 worksheets.
This download is designed to be everything you need in order to teach this theme and cover Christian & Buddhist perspectives.
The resources are authored by the same professional resource designer who created the 20-Lesson GCSE Buddhism bundle for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course: which has soon become the highest rated premium GCSE RS product on all of Tes! ( https://goo.gl/5gQDEE )
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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Printing (for the worksheet)
512MB Ram
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This collection of 17 lessons is for GCSE Religious Studies teachers who are teaching Christianity & Islam. It is for Theme D of the AQA Religious Studies specification: Religion, Peace & Conflict.
It includes 10 lessons about Christian beliefs and 7 lessons about Muslim beliefs. It also includes some bonus resources that I hope will be useful to you.
Lesson 1-10 (Christianity)
Introduction
Central Debates
The Causes of War
Christianity, Pacifism & Peaceful Protest
Christian Teachings About War & Peace
Nuclear Weapons & Weapons of Mass Destruction
ICT Suite Lesson
Religious Responses to War
Assessment Lesson
Unit Overview (Video-Learning Worksheet Lesson)
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Lesson 11-17 (Islam)
11) Violence & War
12) War & Just War
13) Nuclear Weapons
14) Pacifism
15) Peace Activists & Peace-Makers
16) Unit Overview (Islam)
17) Unit Overview (Islam)
It includes three bonus resources:
-A Personal Learning Checklist for this unit
-2 x Debate Generators [revision tools]
Each lesson is fully resourced and includes a lesson plan, homework, AfL tasks. Most lessons are based around professionally designed A3 worksheets.
This download aims to be everything you need in order to teach this theme and cover Christian & Muslim perspectives. Whilst designed around the AQA specification, it is certainly relevant to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers covering Christianity & Islam.
Positive reviews are warmly welcome!
The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017)
System Requirements:
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Printing (for the worksheet)
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1.5GHZ Processor
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GCSE Sociology Resources
Complete Units (Whole Course)
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OCR Religious Studies
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Philosophy Boxes
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Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Geography to use with KS3-5 students, featuring 60 well-presented questions, and an answer sheet.
If you like it: leave a 5* rating and email us (godwin86@gmail.com) and we’ll send you a beautiful Christmas Crossword worksheet for free!
The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds.
Fifty of the questions are all Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology of “fun facts”.
Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
An exam wrapper (A.K.A. Cognitive Wrapper) is a worksheet that allows for before and after reflections when students are taking practice exam papers or undergoing assessments. This exam wrapper is suitable for all subjects and is a fantastic way to improve the value and usefulness of practice assessments.
Please see the attached preview files to see the high quality of these double-sided, A4, colour, fully-editable, exam wrappers.
Exam wrappers foster metacognition in students (i.e. getting to think about how they learn best and what factors are influencing their academic performance) - exam wrappers are frequently cited by researchers as an example of effective metacognition in schools.
It is widely accepted that the use of exam wrappers is “best practice”: yet there are very few available online, and those that exist are often for university students and not suitable for younger people. This wrapper is designed for students aged 14-18 (KS4 & KS5) - and is designed to be fast, fun, and engaging.
This download comprises one of five exam wrappers, you can buy all five versions in our bundle (linked below) and save money by doing so: using a variety of exam wrappers will help students to engage in a broader array of metacognitive reflection activities.
This bundle contains all five of our new exam wrappers (aka cognitive wrappers, assessment wrappers).
All of these exam wrappers are: A4, double-sided, colour, and editable. We have included both .doc and .pdf versions to aid with printing.
This bundle now also includes our zero-print ‘Virtual Assessment Wrapper’ which features fifty slides of student reflection activities for before and after assessments!
Exam wrappers foster metacognition in students (i.e. getting to think about how they learn best and what factors are influencing their academic performance) - use of exam wrappers are frequently cited by researchers as an example of effective metacognition in schools.
It is widely accepted that the use of exam wrappers is “best practice”, yet there are very few available online and those that exist are often for university students and not suitable for younger people. These wrappers are designed for students aged 14-18 (KS4 & KS5) - and are designed to be fast, fun, and engaging.
This download comprises all five of our exam wrappers, buying them in this bundle saves money and the variety of exam wrappers will help students to engage in a broader array of metacognitive reflection activities and help maintain engagement.
For your convenience, we have also included some of our other metacognition sample resources in this bundle.
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 ‘Sociology of Education’ section of the course. 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 workbook is suitable for homework, classwork or distance learning: it will help your students to get more from watching documentaries and videos. This colourful printable booklet includes ten learning sessions spread over twenty pages. You could also just print a couple of pages from this workbook to create a worksheet for an instant video-learning lesson: ideal for cover lessons!
This teaching resource is designed for KS3 History and deals with topics relating to Ancient Romans & The Roman Empire.
The workbook includes links to ten different documentaries or lengthily videos and straight-forward note-taking and comprehension activities so as to structure and foster engagement with the documentary whilst enhancing student learning.
The twenty-page workbook was designed with homework in mind and contains ten different homework sessions. I would suggest using the booklets as a simple way to take care of ‘every other homework’ and use it to supplement your other approaches to homework: just print the booklets out and give them to your students. You can also use the booklets just as well in a classroom setting and they are incredibly easy to use such that even a non-specialist cover-teacher could make use of them. They’re also an ideal way to bolster your distance learning provisions in times of student absence.
Over time some of the links in this workbook may expire, I’ll try to update them from time to time but the workbook is easy to edit - so make sure you check that the links still work before printing and update any broken/defunct links that might crop-up! I’ve done my best to include links to the best videos available for this topic: teachers should ensure that the video links included are suitable for their specific classes.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2020)
Philosophers and sages have reflected on the nature and significance of death and mortality since ancient times whilst reflecting on the possibility of an afterlife in the face of the mystery of death. According to many philosophers and psychologists: a healthy appreciation of one’s own finitude is essential for living a full life and for striving to live without regrets.
Speaking about death and dying is a taboo in our society and yet by failing to speak openly about it we can often exacerbate the fear of death in young minds and feed their anxieties around death. This interactive philosophy lesson allows for open and reasonable discussions about death, mortality, and the possibility (or impossibility) of an afterlife. It is created without a religious or cultural bias or an agenda to persuade or convert students to a particular viewpoint in relation to the afterlife.
This session is ideal for teachers who want to explore these deep matters of life and death with students aged 8-16; we’ve carefully selected the most significant issues and questions relating to death and the afterlife so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature of the death
The benefits of contemplating one’s own mortality
Different views about the afterlife
Whether or believing in ghosts is justified
The value of funerals and honouring the dead
Existential psychology
Please be careful to time your use of this resource carefully and to deliver it with due sensitivity as some young people might struggle to wrestle with these issues. Please note: this resource discusses a variety of afterlife beliefs (i.e. the possibility of reincarnation, Heaven, Hell and nothingness) and, therefore, will probably involve the analysis and evaluation of religious beliefs.
The big question asked in this session is “What are the benefits of thinking deeply about our own mortality?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
Why do you think people are reluctant to talk about death and dying and that such topics are a taboo in our society?
To what extent can thinking about death help us to appreciate and value those around us more?
Many people have reported seeing ghosts: to what extent does this prove that ghosts exist?
What do you think people experience after they die?
How should we live our lives in such a way that we are always ready to die? and
To what extent do Near Death Experiences (NDEs) prove that life after death is definitely true?
This bundle contains 20 lessons for the ‘Crime & Deviance’ section of the new GCSE Sociology specification. This bundle was updated in March 2020 so that all of the PowerPoints are in the standard format and, consequently, more easy to edit than before.
Whilst it is useful to any teacher of Sociology, it was designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192).
It is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive and complete resource: everything a teacher/department need to teach the Crime & Deviance section of the course.
Each lesson comes in a .Zip file, This file contains:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality, editable, PowerPoint Presentation
-Homework
[-Most of the lessons include a worksheet (double-sided A4 or A3)]
We take considerable time making the highest quality lessons and we believe these are the best GCSE Sociology resources money can buy, positive reviews are greatly appreciated.
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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)
.
.
AS/A2 Revision Sessions
OCR Religious Studies
AQA Philosophy
AQA Sociology
.
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
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