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 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 worksheet looking at three Christian responses to suffering; the free will defence, suffering as a test and suffering as an opportunity. There are 12 questions for students to complete and the worksheet includes key passages from the Bible.

A worksheet looking at the nature of the UK as a multi-ethnic society.

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 short activity allowing pupils to match ideas to three differing beliefs about how the world began.

Included in this download are three scenarios of ethical dilemmas and different advice that each character is given. There are three questions to consider at the bottom of each scenario. One scenario could be given to each pair or group to discuss and then to feed back to the class. These discussion could form the basis of a discussion about how we make decisions and what our sources of advice are.

A simple card sort with six reasons for going to war. Students could sort them into what they believe are good reasons for going to war and bad reasons for going to war. This could provide the basis for a discussion on the Jut War Theory or religious attitudes to war.

A card sort with a number of different names of Allah.

A starter activity allowing pupils to reflect on different views about the meaning of life and form their own opinion.

A worksheet allowing pupils to see how Christians may be guided by the Bible to make certain moral choices.

These Heaven and Hell info sheets can be displayed around the classroom or distributed to students. Students fill in their worksheets using the information. The starter activity gets pupils thinking about their own beliefs of heaven and hell.

A simple activity getting pupils to think about causation. This could form the basis of a discussion about the Cosmological Argument.

A simple matching activity looking at the Big Bang theory, Cosmological Argument, Design Argument and the theory of evolution.

The information is displayed in different parts of the classroom. Pupils move round with their worksheet reading the information and filling in the answers to the questions.

A starter activity allowing pupils to think about some words they would use to describe Jesus.

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.

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.