Subjects: GCSE Religious Education and AS/A Level Philosophy and Ethics.
Aim: Get the lesson content from the student's working memory into the long term memory.
How? Consistent retrieval practice; clear structure of the information and colourful resources!
Differentiation: Regular challenges tasks to stretch higher ability students but not lose the rest of the class in the process!
Preview my resources and brighten up your existential lessons!
Subjects: GCSE Religious Education and AS/A Level Philosophy and Ethics.
Aim: Get the lesson content from the student's working memory into the long term memory.
How? Consistent retrieval practice; clear structure of the information and colourful resources!
Differentiation: Regular challenges tasks to stretch higher ability students but not lose the rest of the class in the process!
Preview my resources and brighten up your existential lessons!
In this voice over resource, I talk you through the introduction to the ontological argument and the activities the students are to carry on.
This lesson covers-
Retrieval practice of key concepts linked to the ontological argument
Retrieval practice of the cosmological argument
Who is Anselm?
What is the first part of Anselm’s argument?
Independent tasks the students carry out to prepare them for next lesson.
I have not included the videos included due to copyright.
Best wishes,
Miss Green
In this introduction lesson we assess the key words for this topic and get the students to delve deep into their own understanding of why they think there is evil in the world.
Areas covered in the lesson:
Evaluating students views on evil in the world
The Logical Problem of Evil (Inconsistent Triad)
Independent activities using the worksheet provided.
This lesson was carried out during remote learning due to COVID-19. This works very well as a virtual and live lesson!
In this lesson we look at-
Syndresis Rule
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
4 Laws
Aristotle and Purpose
Doctrine of Double Effect
Primary and secondary precepts
This is a tried and tested lesson and works well live (if you wish to delete the voice over on the top) or as a revision lesson if the students are on their own and wish to be guided through the activities with the voice over!
In this lesson we-
Go through three confidence checklists for the cosmological, teleological, ontological arguments. Each checklist containing- main content for topic; key quotes; key scholars (dates and books); key words; possible 20 markers and 30 markers asked.
Review learning of the three existence of God arguments in bite sized activities.
Independent revision task guidance.
This lesson has been successfully tried and tested and led my students to feel confident in their revision of this big unit of work.
This lesson was carried out during COVID-19 remote learning therefore is successful as an online or live lesson!
In this resource pack you will find-
Confidence tracker for the cosmological, teleological, ontological arguments and the problem of evil.
Key quotes for each argument
Key words for each argument
Key scholars with their dates and books for each argument
Possible exam style questions to be asked
Main areas covered within the topic
These sheets have been invaluable for my A Level students to have all of the information for each topic consolidated to each page. They have each of these confidence trackers at the front of their folder for each topic in the Philosophy Unit.
In this KS4 lesson, we introduce challenges to the existence of God in the form of the Problem of Evil.
In this lesson-
Key terms
Students evaluate why they think evil is in the world
Moral and Natural evil
Catholic VS Fundamental Christian views on original sin
Worksheet for the lesson is provided!
This lesson was due during remote teaching because of COVID-19 therefore works as a great online lesson as well as live.
Hi all,
In this bundle you get:
One resource based on the knowledge and understanding of Aquinas’ Teleological Argument and Paley’s analogy of the watchmaker.
A second resource looking at the strengths and weaknesses of this argument which attempts to prove the existence of God.
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Best wishes,
Liz
Hi all,
In this resource, you are completing the Situation Ethics topic. It is time to apply the knowledge of the theory to the social issues of polyamory and homosexuality. This resource includes a help slide and a diagram to help organise your notes and gives the students assistance.
The second part of the lesson is looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the theory. This helps the students then come to their own conclusion as to whether this theory is a good way to understand morality.
The third section is planning an essay to a Situation Ethics exam question. This section of the lesson breaks down what are the important elements of the question you must include in your response.
The plenary guides students through revision based ideas to help consolidate their learning from this topic.
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Best wishes,
Liz
Hi all,
In this resource you will start was a recap quiz on the theory; then an interactive game to understand the Ancient Greek’s categories of love. To finish there is a comprehensive grid with the different Bible scriptures which link in with Fletcher Situation Ethics.
This is especially helpful when you are wanting to include examples into essays.
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Best wishes,
Liz
Hi all,
This is a resource you can use at the end of your Natural Law topic to clarify your students understanding of the topic. You can also work backwards on your scheme of work using this test as a tick list of areas you need to include in your lessons.
Please leave a review if you find this helpful!
Best wishes,
Liz
Hi all,
In this lesson, we look at:
Key terms within the Situation Ethics topic
The emergence of the theory
Who Joseph Fletcher was
The importance of the conscience within his theory
The fundamental and working principles and this lessons comes with a very handy worksheet!
As always, there are engaging activities embedded throughout to make the content fun to remember and this lesson has been successfully tried and tested on my own students over the past two years.
If you find this useful, please leave it a review!
Best wishes,
Liz
Structure of the lesson-
Identify strengths and weaknesses of the theory.
Introducing domino lay out for students to be able to organise their arguments which match their counter arguments.
Using the ABCDE structure to build their essay.
AB- Argument and Build. This is the first argument in the top section of the domino. They need to include Point, Evidence, and Explain within this section. In order to get the best marks you ideally want a couple of bits of evidence throughout this section (e.g. quotes/analogies/contemporary examples).
CD- Challenge and Develop. This is the argument they wrote down in the bottom half of their domino. They need to include Point, Evidence, and Explain within this section. In order to get the best marks you ideally want a couple of bits of evidence throughout this section (e.g. quotes/analogies/contemporary examples). Make sure it relates back to the argument spoken about in the top half of the domino.
E- Evalute. Out of those two arguments you explained, which one seems the most convincing to you?
An exam practice question.
This lesson also includes revision summary sheets for the Utilitarianism topic.
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Int his lesson students take a deeper look at key characteristics Jewish people believe God to have. They also look at a key source of authority in Jewish Scripture- The Shema.
In this resource we look at-
The definition of feminism
The controversy around feminists
What is toxic masculinity?
Evaluating our own opinion if we would class ourselves as feminists
This is a tried and tested lesson which worked amazing for a group of Y9, it can lead to some charged discussions so have a disclaimer at the beginning setting the ground rules of your classroom e.g. what will/won’t be tolerated!
In this resource you will find an manageable way of ensuring you have the basics included within your lesson observation.
This worksheet includes information of your EAL, PP and SEND students; your teaching standard focus; what to do at each stage of the lesson; and a section to reflection on your observation!
Your lessons can be broken down into easy steps with this resource.
Are you an Initial Teacher Trainee (ITT) and you have to hand in your evidence bundle??
Stress no more with this check list to make sure you have everything you need before you hand in your folder!
You can also watch me talk through how I organised my evidence bundle back when I was an ITT via the YouTube video attached.