I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate. This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.

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.

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 looks at the way Christians evangelise today. There is a video on Alpha, and the one on John Chau which appeared in the news - really useful for discussion. I got students to do a for and against for evangelism they cam up with loads of ideas.

This is a big lesson power point that covers the introduction to the unit. It includes both Christian and Islamic teachings and perspectives on human rights. Within the power point are a number of exam style questions.

These two question banks contain over 200 questions between them. They cover the 4, 5 and 12 mark questions for both the beliefs and practices sections of the Christianity unit.

I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate. This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.

This lesson looks at the nature and purpose of families for Christians. It looks at traditional views against modern ones as well as the diversity of views. Exam style questions included.

Rather fittingly perhaps, this lesson follows on from marriage. We look at the contrasting attitudes to divorce within Christianity and why some see it as ok whilst many have difficulty with it. Exam style questions included.

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.

Predestination in Islam, Beliefs Unit GCSE RS AQA New Spec

This is a game I've created for my year 11's. They've been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them. There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well. The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1sided - 2 sided and it should work) I recommend laminating and printing each set of different colour paper. There are about 30 words in total. The rules in short are, Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word. If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile. If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand. Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game. Also available as bundle Also available Christianity Islam Themes A - F Please review! Thanks

All about contraception, looking at the different kinds and why some are seen as acceptable and others not. Again the focus is on Christianity because of the diversity of views. Lots of opportunities to make links to prior learning and the idea of God’s intention in creation as a basis for moral decision making.

Follow the AQA Text book, this lesson looks at the issue of persecution and the Church’s response to it. There are videos within the powerpoint that you may find useful. As always colour coded key words and quotes throughout. The lesson is also punctuated throughout with various questions/exam questions

This a structured revision worksheet for the AQA GCSE RS Themes topics. Students fill out their boxes with their revision information. The boxes are structured around the exam questions. please review!

This is a detailed lesson based off the text book for Eduqas Alevel Religious Studies. You do not need the text book to teach this. There are questions throughout and exam style questions.

Comprehensive lesson plus worksheet on the worship and prayer in Christianity for new AQA spec some pictures have links to videos

This the 2nd lesson on the Trinity. It starts with a reminder on the heresies around the Trinity (can be used as starter). It then details how the Filioque controversy came about and goes into bit of detail on the Great Schism of 1054 (please do make it clear that the Church was slowly drifting a part due to the fall of the Roman empire.) I’ve made an attempt to explain what ‘proceeds’ from the Father and the Son mean and how this idea fits into Easter and Western Theology.