This lesson is extracted from the pages on the development of Christian thought, with reference to wealth and poverty and prosperity gospel. It basically follows the text book, hopefully saves you sometime!

The focus of this unit is on Christianity and Islam as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.

Here are two lesson’s worth on Aquinas’s cosmological arguments, very information heavy so ideal for adapting to your style and for student revision. It has some questions and tasks within, it follows the Eduqas text book.

Lesson on the teleological arguments, information heavy so good for adapting and use as revision. Follows the Eduqas book Includes, Aquinas, Paley

Lesson on Bradley’s Ethical Naturalism, follows the A level text book. Ideal for adaptation, lots of information.

This lesson is very detailed, it looks at the main challenges to ethical naturalism by Hume and G.E.Moore. Ideal for adapting to your lesson.

This is a knowledge organiser for Theme A. It summarises the main contrasting views, key words, and lists a selection of references to Biblical sources.

This lesson focuses mainly on Christianity and looks at marriage and it’s value for Christians. It thinks about the nature and purpose of marriage for Christians. You can’t teach this without touching on the difficulty of homosexual marriage for Christians, this idea is explored in previous lessons but comes up again here. There are a couple videos, one is a nice one of the recent royal wedding, I found my students went all gushy and it was a nice moment as a class. The activity associated is about spotting the symbolism and understanding what it says about the beliefs.

This lesson is all about reconciliation and follows the AQA textbook. I have punctuated the lesson with various questions including some exam style ones. As with all my powerpoints, key words are colour coded in blue boxes, key quotes in yellow.

This lesson follows the Church’s response to worldwide poverty following the AQA textbook. I have put a few questions throughout but the bulk of the lesson was designed to be an information retrieval/into a mind map activity - easily adaptable to carousel or group work. There are information sheets for each of the charities they can research.

Lesson 1 of 7, This goes into quite a lot of detail, some of which you may find you don’t want to touch with your classes, e.g. the stuff about the ancient Greek practice of pederasty. It’s really an exploratory lesson designed to open up dialogue, and set the context of the conversation about sexual ethics.

Religion and poverty, asking the ethical question - should we aim to be rich?

Story/ Parable based lesson, year 7s really enjoy it! Use props if you can!!

Critical RE Lesson, part of a larger scheme of work. Explores the problem of Evil, focus on God and Moral Evil

Islamic beliefs about the nature of Allah New spec RS GCSE AQA

Predestination in Islam, Beliefs Unit GCSE RS AQA New Spec