Thank you for taking a look at my tes shop. I love making exciting resources for students that will get them thinking and scaffold their learning. I hope you find what you are looking for and find these resources helpful in your own classes.
Thank you for taking a look at my tes shop. I love making exciting resources for students that will get them thinking and scaffold their learning. I hope you find what you are looking for and find these resources helpful in your own classes.
An AT2 starter activity getting pupils to think about where they would live and what their lives would be like if they were God and had decided to come and live on earth. This introduces the topic of the incarnation and could lead into a discussion of the differences between what pupils would choose if they were God and how Jesus came into the world.
This resource contains a card sort with text and pictures giving four arguments ‘for’ the Design Argument and four arguments ‘against’. There are accompanying teacher notes with detailed explanations of 8 exciting activities to be used in conjunction with the card sort. These activities vary in length and cater for different learning styles and abilities.
A simple worksheet looking at how the Big Bang theory can be used in support of the Design Argument or against it. There are three simple questions for students to complete.
A simple starter activity allowing pupils to give their opinion on whether certain events are luck, coincidence, miracle or something else. Could for the basis for a discussion on what miracles are and whether they happen today.
This worksheet needs to be used in connection with a picture showing the Pentecost. It can be a starter activity to introduce the topic of the Pentecost.
A card sort to get students familiar with some of the different functions of the Church as ‘The Body of Christ’. They could order them in terms of what they think are most or least important.
This is a great resource to get your students using all their senses to imagine what life was like in the time of Jesus. Suitable for KS3 and some KS2 children, this forms an introduction to looking at the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and provides excellent cross curricular links.
Included in this download are 5 information sheets about different aspects of 1st century life, each one focusing on a sense. There are simple explanations and pictures on each info sheet. There are a number of ways these could be used, but the suggestion is to give each group or pair a particular sense which they read and become the ‘expert’ on. Then the info sheets can be taken away and each group can teach another group what they have found out. The Senses Wheel worksheet will allow students to record their findings.
The similarities and differences worksheet can be used as a follow on activity and prompts students to think about how their lives are similar or different to life in the first century.
Finally there is a scaffolded worksheet which helps students to write a diary entry as if they were a boy or girl living in Jesus’ time. They can use their completed Senses Wheel to give them ideas for this.
This activity is based on the fictional ‘Greenridge Research Centre’ - which tests drugs on Beagle dogs with the hope of finding cures to serious diseases. Included in the download are character profiles of 8 characters who have an opinion on whether this centre should be closed down or remain open. There are four views on each side of the argument, including two different Christian perspectives.
The Teacher Notes give a detailed description of 2 class activities that can be used in conjunction with these character profiles to get students thinking about the pros and cons of vivisection and animal rights. There is also a set of extension questions which challenge students to think about the ethical and philosophical issues vivisection raises.
Also included in this download are two worksheets to be used in connection with the two activities which will support and scaffold the learning.
This Powerpoint file contains twelve ideas to help you incorporate literacy into your RE lessons. These range from quick activities that can be used as starters or plenaries, to activities that could be embedded into the main part of a lesson. These can all be adapted to different topics and they are relevant to both KS3 and GCSE Religious Education.
This predictions sheet can be used in connection with a picture of any Bible story or other event. Pupils are shown the picture and they fill in the worksheet predicting what the picture shows and what could be happening.
