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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 download contains practice assessment materials for AQA GCSE Sociology (Family).
It contains 5 exam sections, 5 mark-schemes, and 5 model 12-mark answers.
An ‘exam section’ is half of a full-exam: students should complete it in 50 minutes, making these ideal for assessment lessons.
This download covers the topic of ‘Sociology of Family’ - you can save money buy buying assessment materials for all four-sections here.
Complete units for GCSE Sociology can be downloaded here.
Please note:
These are not official exam scripts, I do not work for AQA: I have aimed to make reasonable practice exam-questions based on the specimin material already provided. All items are editable: if you think the 12-mark model-answers are too intimidating, feel free to reduce them.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018) - strictly not for re-distribution.
This download contains practice assessment materials for AQA GCSE Sociology (Social Stratification).
It contains 5 exam sections, 5 mark-schemes, and 5 model 12-mark answers.
An ‘exam section’ is half of a full-exam: students should complete it in 50 minutes, making these ideal for assessment lessons.
This download covers the topic of ‘Social Stratification’ - you can save money buy buying assessment materials for all four-sections here.
Complete units for GCSE Sociology can be downloaded here.
Please note:
These are not official exam scripts, I do not work for AQA: I have aimed to make reasonable practice exam-questions based on the specimin material already provided. All items are editable: if you think the 12-mark model-answers are too intimidating, feel free to reduce them.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018) - strictly not for re-distribution.
For the new AQA Philosophy specification (2017 onwards): AS-Level Ethics, dealing with Kantian Ethics.
This 35+ page booklet contains:
-Specification guidelines
-Summary of Kant’s Groundwork
-Topic-by-topic Notes
-Quotations
-Hypothetical exam questions
-Probably the largest collection of Kant Memes ever collated.
-and Model answers:
-Explain Kant's claim that no action is completely moral unless it is done out of duty alone. (9)
-Critically Evaluate Kant’s Moral Philosophy (15)
-To what extent does Kantian ethics resolve some of the problems with utilitarian ethics? (15)
-“Kant’s Moral theory is insufficient in responding to the challenge of simulated killing.”
Evaluate this claim.(15)
-Evaluate Kant’s response to the issue of Animal Rights (15)
This complete set of ten assemblies is designed to introduce metacognition and learning-power to students aged 11-16. The topics covered are:
Introduction to Metacognition
How to Improve Concentration
Increasing Memory & Learning
Being Inquisitive & Developing Questioning Skills
Healthy Body, Healthy Emotions, Healthy Mind
Critical Thinking & Higher-Order Thinking Skills
The Benefits of Meditation
The Value of Education
Increasing Energy & Motivation
How to Revise
The assemblies stick to the same format: for this reason it is best not to use them in series but, instead, use them over the course of a school year or even multiple years. The format is flexible and includes a wide range of activities: it is designed to be adaptable to different groups.
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This products features 101 metacognitive ‘thunks’: mind-expanding philosophical questions to make students think. It also includes a randomisation feature that allows you to generate seemingly random statements that the students cannot anticipate!
Unlike other thunk or philosophical debate generators: this resource is focused entirely on matters pertaining to metacognition and learning. Example questions include:
“What is a thought made of?”
“What does the word ‘intelligent’ really mean?” and
“What is the difference between knowledge and belief?”
A highly flexible tool that allows students to practice their philosophical, critical-thinking, discussion and debating skills: teachers can experiment using different discussion formats as they see fit and practice their own questioning skills in the process. It’s a fully editable PowerPoint file so you can add your own questions to!
A very simple way to bring metacognition to your school and develop your school or class’s Higher-Order Thinking skills!
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com. We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This download contains practice assessment materials for AQA GCSE Sociology (Education).
It contains 5 exam sections, 5 mark-schemes, and 5 model 12-mark answers.
An ‘exam section’ is half of a full-exam: students should complete it in 50 minutes, making these ideal for assessment lessons.
This download covers the topic of ‘Sociology of Education’ - you can save money buy buying assessment materials for all four-sections here.
Complete units for GCSE Sociology can be downloaded here.
Please note:
These are not official exam scripts, I do not work for AQA: I have aimed to make reasonable practice exam-questions based on the specimin material already provided. All items are editable: if you think the 12-mark model-answers are too intimidating, feel free to reduce them.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018) - strictly not for re-distribution.
The purpose of these sessions is to foster questioning skills, Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and critical-thinking skills. Each of the sessions contains four phases:
‘What Makes a Good Question?’
Generating Philosophical Questions
Using Questions in Critical-Thinking
Questioning Experts
These PowerPoint sessions are fairly flexible and consist of many short discussion questions instead of more lengthily tasks: each one contains 25+ slides. The exercises generally involve question-generation: the prompts deal with metacognitive issues and broader questions from the wider curriculum.
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This product includes ten classic reading comprehension activities. Each sheet contains an article relating to metacognition and a set of questions that aim to measure the students understanding and comprehension of it. The topics covered by these reading comprehension articles are:
Introducing Metacognition
Metamemory & Mnemonics
How to Increase Focus & Concentration
Motivation & Energy
Emotions, Resilience & Learning
Metacognitive Skills
The Power of Mind-Maps
Self-Reflection, Self-Awareness, & Self-Monitoring
Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Removing Self-Limiting Beliefs & Attitudes
Reading comprehensions are seen as pretty ‘old-school’ these days: but they can be a straight-forward way to expose students to new ideas and their answers to the comprehension questions are a simple and direct way to assess understanding. We hope this simple resource will develop reading and deep-reading skills in students whilst introducing the most important ideas relating to metacognition and the enhancement of learning-power.
All files are in .doc (Word) format and are black & white, A4, single-sided worksheets.
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Enhance the metacognitive awareness of your school with our whole-school metacognition poster set!
Each A3 poster covers a different topic:
Metacognitive Questions
Building a Memory Palace
The Power of Meditation
How to Improve Concentration
What is Metacognition
The Value of Learning
The Secret Power of Mind-Maps
Being Organised
Metacognitive Powers
Metacognition: Key-Points
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This bundle is for a collection of ‘Philosophy Boxes’ lessons/sessions.
Each session comprises a P4C lesson/session that can be used 2-3 times with the same group.
This download includes 19 out of the 20 sessions, the 20th file is the template (worth £9.99) that allows you to create your own ‘Philosophy Boxes’ sessions.
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 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
Other bundles of ‘Philosophy Boxes’ lessons exist, depending on your need.
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GCSE Religious Studies
Buddhism (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
This PowerPoint included 101 debate prompts. It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide so that debate topics can be selected randomly. Each prompt is designed to trigger reflection on a metacognition or learning-power issue, examples include:
“A health body leads to a healthy mind”
“It is possible to know too much” and
“Everyone is born with an equal capacity for success in school.”
Debates take an ‘agree or disagree’ format: students are asked to move from one side of the room to the other depending on their response to the statements that appear.
This format allows teachers to foster debates and discussions between students, it can be helpful to ask students to justify their reasons and use sensible arguments. Questions you might ask include:
“What is wrong with the other position in your view?”,
“Why did you choose to stand where you’re standing?”,
“Why do you think people disagree so much about this question?”
It is best to encourage students to pick a side rather than float in the middle: but it can also be fun to allow students to change side as the debate progresses, so that students can try to persuade one another to move.
This is a great resource to use at the end of lessons if you have a few minutes left, it can be used as an entire lesson.
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This session, based around metacognition learning activities that use sticky-notes (‘Post-It’ notes), focuses on the factors, skills and choices that can enhance learning-power: the aim is to get students to engage in metacognitive reflection in a fun and engaging way.
Students will need an ample supply of post-it notes that they can write on and place on the board. There are approximately 50 slides, comprised of four main styles of activity: short plenary activities are also included between the main tasks.
Simply run the PowerPoint and work your way through: skipping ahead as necessary using the integrated buttons on the presentation. The PowerPoint is designed to be used multiple times in multiple sessions: do not try to complete all tasks in one sitting!
The idea is that you will use a few slides from each activity, as well as the AfL/plenary tasks, in each session: this will keep sessions sufficiently varied to keep students engaged.
The PowerPoint is very flexible: you can use this for short sessions of 10-15 minutes, or longer sessions up to an hour in length.
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This resource uses A3 Debate Worksheets to foster discussions about learning and metacognition amongst small groups of students. The intention is that students are in groups of 3-5 and that the debate worksheets circulate around the room, with groups rotating the worksheets every five minutes, so that different groups can discuss them and add ideas.
It covers five topics, each contains eleven debate worksheets. Each topic comprises a learning session, though the resources can be used as shorter learning activities. The five topics discussed are:
Thinking Deeply About The Value of Education
Thinking Deeply About Thought
Thinking Deeply About Memory
Thinking Deeply About Concentration
Thinking Deeply About Independent Learning
A short instructional PowerPoint is also included so as to guide the learning sessions.
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This bundle contains revision sessions for all 12 sub-sections of the A2 Christianity (6), ‘Religion & Ethics’ (3) & ‘Philosophy of Religion’ (3) content for OCR Religious Studies (new specification).
If you are teaching Christianity for KS5 Religious Studies on OCR, this covers all six topics and the content for ‘Philosophy of Religion’ and ‘Religion and Ethics.’ The whole A2 aspect 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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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
An important aspect of metacognition concerns the student’s understanding of motivation, after all: metacognition is the personal study of one’s thought and learning-processes and student motivation towards a given subject is influenced by their thoughts and attitudes towards it.
One of the surest ways to increase motivation is by providing a clear understanding of the reasons, benefits and advantages that come with studying particular subjects.
This download contains over thirty PowerPoints presentations: one for each school subject. The purpose of the presentations is to lead discussions and debates about the value of each subject. Each session contains:
A Starter
Discussion Prompts
Video Links
A Writing-Based Assessment Task
Plenaries/AfL
Debate Prompts
The general strategy of the sessions is to get students to:
Explore the personal significance of the selected subject
Understand why the subject is taught
Identify the importance of the subject: how it benefits the student and wider community
Determine potential connections to their career ambitions
Each session follows the same format so it’s probably best not to use them all at once with students within a short time-frame! They are, nonetheless, a great resource to have available to your teachers so that they can be used as interventions for individuals or groups that are struggling with motivation in a given subject.
The preview images show the general approach each session follows, using the ‘English Literature’ session as an example.
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This bundle contains:
-‘What does it mean to be moral?’ [7 Lesson Course]
-Buddhism [9 Lesson Course]
-‘What was the Holocaust?’ [9Lesson Course]
-3 x Christianity Units
-Sikhism [9 Lesson Course]
-Islam [9 Lesson Course]
-P4C (Philosophy 4 Children) [8-Lesson Course]
-Mandala Colouring Pack
-Activity Generator (for RS/Philosophy/Humanities)
-Symbols Quiz
-Two free demos of our ‘debate generators’ to try in your lessons.
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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 download contains 5 model 15-mark answers for GCSE Sociology (WJEC Eduqas Specification).
Save over 50% by buying them in the larger bundle of 20 model answers.
These refer to the topic of ‘Crime & Deviance’.
All materials are copyrighted and strictly not for re-distribution.
This download contains 5 model 15-mark answers for GCSE Sociology (WJEC Eduqas Specification).
Save over 50% by buying them in the larger bundle of 20 model answers.
These refer to the topic of ‘Education’.
All materials are copyrighted and strictly not for re-distribution.
This download contains 5 model 15-mark answers for GCSE Sociology (WJEC Eduqas Specification).
Save over 50% by buying them in the larger bundle of 20 model answers.
These refer to the topic of ‘Social Stratification & Differentiation’.
All materials are copyrighted and strictly not for re-distribution.
The complete resources I used for teaching 'The Sociology of Work' at GCSE level.
A few of these files are 'works in progress' - but most are complete lessons, revision materials, assessment materials, and lots of activities that should comprise almost all of what you need to teach this section of the course.
Lessons Include:
1) How work socialises people
2) How employment effects life chances
3) Sectors of employment and industry
4)Distribution and consequences of unemployment
5) Alienation, computerisation & automation
6) Marxist views
7) Feminist views
8) Exam Technique
Also includes the very useful Personal Learning Checklist and 'Take Away Menu' worksheet for revision guidance.