I am Head of Social Sciences at a Cambridgeshire School. Last year we achieved 80%+ A*-C in Sociology GCSE and over half of our students achieved A*/A at A Level.
Currently teaching OCR Sociology A Level and WJEC GCSE Sociology.
Any questions, message me.
I am Head of Social Sciences at a Cambridgeshire School. Last year we achieved 80%+ A*-C in Sociology GCSE and over half of our students achieved A*/A at A Level.
Currently teaching OCR Sociology A Level and WJEC GCSE Sociology.
Any questions, message me.
A great way of recapping and checking knowledge on measurements of crime.
Connect 4 style game based on statements about the three measurements of crime.
Includes:
Statements (Which need to be cut up)
Connect 4 game board
Connect 4 powerpoint instructions.
Works best in groups of 3.
If you want to make it last longer increase the number they need to get in a row.
Give each pupil a different colour pen/pencil/highlighter/felt tip.
Students enjoy this. Usually takes around 20-30 mins.
A workbook to complete in order to summarise each of the studies needed as part of the OCR GCSE Psychology course. APRCE template for each study.
Each page has the same format where studies need to fill in information relating to the study.
We set this for homework as a consolidation activity.
Front page contains information that relates to our school but is uploaded as a publisher file and so can be deleted/adapted to your own school.
Two worksheets on white collar vs blue collar crime.
One is a notetaking sheet outlining the differences between the two types of crime using the WJEC GCSE Sociology book to help them (could use any book though that outlines the differences between the two)
The other sheet gets students thinking about types of crime that could be committed within each job role (focusing on white collar crime).
Made for GCSE but could be adapted/used for A Level as a quick activity.
I have created a revision booklet for Paper 1 OCR GCSE Psychology 9-1 (new spec).
This has a variety of activities to help students revise the content for:
Criminal Psychology
Development
Psychological Problems
There is no research methods in this booklet. I have decided against putting it in this booklet as I feel it would be best as a stand alone booklet due to the fact it is in both papers. There are many research methods booklets available and little changes in research methods so people will want to use their own.
Also, I have NOT included the studies in here. The reason is that I have a separate studies booklet that I get my students to fill in across the 2 years for homework. I have included this for you to use (if you wish). This is a page for each study for students to fill in.
There are a variety of crosswords, word searches, gap fills, cryptograms, double puzzles and others. The criticisms involve note taking. There is also a front cover, you may wish to do your own, hence why it is at the end.
A side note: I am a teacher (not a full time author, or part time for that matter), just like you! It has taken me roughly 20 hours to make this booklet, if you are expecting a bound revision booklet then please look elsewhere. This is mainly to help students revisit content alongside the Billingham book. Equally you are paying to be able to print as many copies of this for your own students as you like. Please do not reupload!
Many thanks! If you have any questions please feel free to message me.
I will eventually produce a booklet for Paper 2.
I put together 3 overview sheets covering Top Down and Bottom up approaches to offender profiling. There are 2 sheets on AO1 and 1 sheet covering AO3 (all word documents). Photocopy as many as you like for your students but please don’t share with other teachers. These took roughly 3 hours to make!
This is a series of resources to get students retrieving information from the memory and psychopathology.
There is a bit of variety including:
Bingo (2)
Crosswords (2)
Work out the picture (1)
True/False (1)
Pyramid Builder (2)
Take 1 from each column (1)
Anagrams (1)
Odd one out (1)
Sort the PEEL paragraphs (1)
This is the answer, what is the question? (1)
Characteristic card sort (1)
And others
I use this at the start of other topic lessons to force students to recall information about previous topics.
OCR A Level Sociology. Crime and Deviance revision sheet. Overview of theories, names, concepts etc.
Took a long time to make!
I also have one available for Sociology of the Family, see other resources.
Please feel free to review and give feedback on how to improve.
Students were extremely happy with this resource, probably more so than any other as it helped them visualise where theory relate to one another.
This is a simple overview of four different sociological theories (Functionalism, Feminism, Marxism and New Right)
There is an activity to do on each in order to work out what each theory argues. There is also an empty string puppet for students to fill in about who controls society according to that theory and whether they see it as good or bad.
There is also a key terms section to fill in.
Students enjoy doing this and provides them with a basic overview of each of the theories.
GCSE level and can be used for any exam board.
My students found these extremely useful and many have them on their wall for revision. I would recomment blowing up to A3.
This is a task used to get students to apply the AQA Psychology A Level Relationships topic to the film Love Actually. It’s become a staple of my course and is up there with the sweet neuron lessons, sampling with Skittles lessons.
This idea being that they:
Watch the film, Love Actually.
As they watch they write down examples of Evolutionary explanations, Factors affecting attraction and theories of romantic relationships, as shown in the film.
Then afterwards the teacher will go through some examples on the board of this to support them through the group work.
The students will be put into groups and create an overview sheet on one particular topic (Filter Theory for example). They will then create a sheet referring to key terms and concepts, using examples from the film. I usually give them a lesson to start then the rest is homework.
For obvious reasons, this download does not include the film. At various points this can be found on streaming sites. At time of putting this resource up it can be found on both Amazon Prime and Britbox. It is periodically on Netflix (often in the run up to Christmas). It’s a great pre-Christmas activity and allows you to have display work at the end of it.
This file includes: Note sheet for students to fill in with examples from the film (A teacher cheat sheet to help prompt the students). I’ve also included the names of the main protagonists and pictures to help students. I’ve also included the times I would try to skip over in the film (roughly, please watch before showing students) as there are a few sex scenes in which may be a bit awkward to watch with your classes! Times can be found on the teacher cheat sheet. It also includes headings for the display. To get the full effect please download the following fonts (Helvetica and Helvetica Light (which mirror the Love Actually font) for the display titles. You can convert them but they won’t have quite the same effect.
I’ve also included a couple of photos of the displays produced by my classes (in progress). You could get them to do it individually if you wish.
https://www.fontsplace.com/helvetica-light-free-font-download.html
https://freefontsfamily.com/helvetica-font-family/
If you have any questions please email me at jwilson@arthurmellows.org