Powerpoint inspired by the RGS scheme of work "China Today". Whole lesson, includes starter (multinational companies), comparison of Shenzhen in 1970 with today, Geographical mystery about Apple's involvement ion China (WHAT were the reasons for moving iPhone production to China? HOW were the Foxconn workers treated? WHY are there nets outside Foxconn factory windows? WHO benefits from Apple products being made in China? ), differentiated questions (Explain why Apple was so interested in making its products in China; Compare the opinions of a Foxconn worker in China with an Apple customer in the UK. Then give your opinion of Foxconn/Apple; Describe the living and working conditions inside a Chinese factory like Foxconn) and plenary (the suicide of Ma Xiang Qian )
Eight page booklet : define keywords, Latitude/Longitude map skills, a SPAG exercise about Russia, space for pupils to analyse Russia's citizenship policy, a moral dilemma based on renewing the UK's nuclear weapons, a page to write about the pupil's photo of Russia and finally a chance to research and design a Russian doll
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
DCT – AUGUSTINE’S TEACHING ON HUMAN NATURE
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
THOMAS HOBBES
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
‘CONFESSIONS’
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS PRE- AND POST-FALL
Pre-Lapsarian
Post-Lapsarian
ORIGINAL SIN AND ITS EFFECTS ON WILL AND SOCIETY
Original Sin is passed on through sex
GOD’S GRACE
Summum bonum
Contrasts Plato and Kant
CRITICISMS OF AUGUSTINE
Irenaean theodicy
DAWKINS
Humanitarian principle (PINKER)
FREUD
**JEAN PAUL SARTRE **
NIEBUHR
Prideful sin
Realisation of God
Key issues
Revision for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Five pages
DCT – LIVING
CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES
BIBLE = ONLY AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN MORALS
Theonomous Christian ethics
Sola scriptura
Issues with theonomous ethics
BIBLE, CHURCH + REASON = SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN MORALS
Heteronomous Christian ethics
Roman Catholic attitudes to Church teachings
Protestant attitudes to Church teachings
AGAPE = ONLY CHRISTIAN ETHICAL PRINCIPLE
Autonomous Christian ethics
CHURCH AUTHORITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: PERSONAL OR COMMUNAL?
CHRISTIAN MORAL ACTION
BONHOEFFER
DUTY TO GOD OR THE STATE?
Bonhoeffer’s teaching on obedience, leadership + doing God’s will
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL
Civil disobedience
CHURCH AS COMMUNITY + SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
Bonhoeffer’s role in Confessing Church
Bonhoeffer’s role at Finkenwalde
COST OF DISCIPLESHIP
God’s grace, suffering + solidarity
BONHOEFFER’S EMPHASIS ON SUFFERING
BONHOEFFER’S RELEVANCE TODAY
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Five pages
DCT – DEVELOPMENT
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM + THEOLOGY
EXCLUSIVISM
INCLUSIVISM
PLURALISM
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM + SOCIETY
DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MULTI-FAITH SOCIETIES
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
Official Church responses
Should Christians convert those of other faiths?
Should Christians have mission to those of no faith?
SCRIPTURAL REASONING MOVEMENT
RELATIVISING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
**Three pages **
To be printed A3 size
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 'ON WENLOCK EDGE’
Three Mind Maps:
’1. ON WENLOCK EDGE’
’3. IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING?'
’5. BREDON HILL’
Mind Map connections:
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
Texture
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One page
To be printed A3 size
KAIJA SAARIAHO: 'PETALS FOR VIOLINCELLO AND LIVE ELECTRONICS’
Background information
MIND MAP:
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Texture
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One page
To be printed A3 size
KATE BUSH: 'HOUNDS OF LOVE’
MIND MAP:
‘Cloudbusting’
‘And dream of sheep’
‘Under ice’
Mind map connections:
Harmony & Tonality
Texture
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Structure
Instrumentation
Melody
Revision Notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
Two pages
To be printed A3 size
DEBUSSY - 'LA SOIREE DANS GRENADE’
Background notes
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
DEBUSSY - 'PAGODES’
Background notes
Impressionist features in 'Estampes' (notes)
Harmony & Tonality
Melody
Texture
Instrumentation
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One page
To be printed A3 size
CLARA WIECK-SCHUMANN - 'PIANO TRIO IN G MINOR, OP. 17: MOVEMENT 1
Mind Map connections:
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One Page
To be printed A3 size
COURTEY PINE: 'BACK IN THE DAY’
‘Inner state (of mind)’
‘Lady Day and (John Coltrane)’
‘Love and affection’
Mind map connections:
Melody
Harmony and Tonality
Texture
Structure
Instrumentation
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One page
To be printed A3 size
Bernard Herrmann - 'Psycho’
Mind Map
'Prelude'
'The City'
'Marion'
'The Murder (Shower Scene)'
'The Toys'
'The Cellar'
'Discovery'
'Finale'
Connections include:
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Texture
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel )
Two pages
To be printed A3 size
ELFMAN - ‘BATMAN RETURNS’
Birth of a Penguin Part I
Birth of a Penguin Part II
Batman vs the Circus
The Rise and Fall from Grace
Mind map connections:
* Melody
* Texture
* Instrumentation
* Rhythm
* Harmony & Tonality
* Metre & Tempo
Pearson Edexcel A-level Music
Bundle of THIRTEEN revision resources
Detailed Mind Maps
Harmony
Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
Texture
Structure
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Geography Case Study
Lithium is key to green technologies.
The “Lithium Triangle” of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, holds most of the world’s lithium reserves.
Chinese businesses face allegations of the violation of the rights of local communities, damage to ecosystems and unsafe working conditions.
Argentinian lithium miners surrounded their Chinese managers’ compound and blockaded the entrance with flaming tyres.
This resource includes a variety of lesson activities to pick and choose:
Which Geography keyword is the ODD ONE OUT?
5Ws &1H about Tesla Motors and Elon Musk
5Ws &1H about a photo of lithium salt mounds
In which photo would you be most likely to … meet a worker whose health is at risk?
Critical Thinking: write THREE sentences to LINK these four images (technology: manufacturing, sales, use, waste)
Worksheet and data to construct a dot distribution map of China’s lithium mines around the World
PQE: China’s Lithium Mines - worksheet to analyse the dot distribution map using critical thinking (Patterns, Quantify, Exceptions)
Several slides for screen projection: encourages class evaluation of the positives vs negatives of dot distribution
Slide showing annotated map of Global North vs Global South - encourages analysis of correlation between lithium mining and socio-economic development
Link to video: “Argentina indigenous groups
protest against lithium mining”
Concept Map: The Lithium Triangle (35 snippets of info, to be colour-coded according to Locations, Causes, Effects, Management, Supporting Data)
The concept map info can then be used for:
Thought Chains: The Lithium Triangle - complete the scaffolding to complete six pieces of analysis…
“Chinese firms have been buying lithium mines in South America because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is SOCIALLY unsustainable because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is ECONOMICALLY unsustainable because…”
“The lithium mining industry in South America is ENVIRONMENTALLY unsustainable because…”
“Electric car makers buy Chinese lithium-ion batteries because…”
“Electric cars are not yet completely sustainable because…”
Geography Web: The Lithium Triangle
Pupils link feature and analyse the connections between the Lithium Triangle and China, Argentina’s government, indigenous people, Tesla Motors
TEACHERS’ BACKGROUND INFORMATION sheets (x3) with links to relevant articles and original BBC News story
Geography Case Study
April - May, 2024
Meteorologists confirmed that Hidaya is the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed in this part of the south Indian Ocean
Floods in Kenya killed 257 and injured 188 people; 56,000 homes destroyed
Activities concentrate on the Mukuru slum in the south of Nairobi
Flooding made worse by: Nairobi built on flood plain by the British colonisers + climate change + Indian Ocean Dipole + informal housing along river banks + saturated soil + impermeable concrete + infilling of Nairobi Dam
5Ws &1H: satellite photo of Tropical Cyclone Hidaya
Which settlement type is the ODD ONE OUT?
Which weather event is the ODD ONE OUT?
Lateral Thinking about the KENYAN FLOODS: Write three geographical sentences linking four photographs
Which photograph shows Kenya? Write a sentence to explain reasoning. (Actually a trick question: They ALL show different aspects of Kenya)
Over a dozen slides to set the scene and prompt discussion: photos of Nairobi and Mukuru, graph showing precipitation (to spot the two rainy seasons)
Links to videos for further knowledge
Mystery: Why did the Mwangi family have to leave their home?
Two slides of clues to help solve the mystery
Worksheet: annotate the map of Nairobi to explain the causes of the floods
Concept hexagons: explain the links between the icons (people, housing, cyclone, rain, flood, death)
Worksheet: Conclusion - Hypothesis “The Kenyan government were right to demolish the houses in Mukuru”
TEACHERS’ BACKGROUND INFORMATION sheets (x2) with further links and detail
Geography Case Study
We are meant to eat our Five a Day.
The UK only produces 17% of the fruit
and 55% of the vegetables that are bought in British shops.
40% of UK food is produced abroad.
Between 2023 and 2024, the Trussell Trust food banks distributed three million food parcels
to British people.
So what is going on?
This resource includes a variety of lesson activities to pick and choose:
Which Geography keyword (farming types) is the odd one out?
Which grass (cereals) is the odd one out?
In which photo of farming are you most likely to see agrichemicals being used? (vs Golden Rice).
%Ws & 1H - Battery hens (for class discussion).
Comparison of farming today with a 14th c. illustration.
Link to Channel 4 News video: ‘Millions in UK need to double income to escape poverty’.
Lateral Thinking about food supplies - ‘Discuss how these four photographs are linked… Then write three sentences to explain your ideas’ (climate change, floods, empty shekves, container ship).
Development compass worksheet: ‘Food security’.
Info sheet: ‘UK Food Security’ - to help complete…
Question Grid: ‘UK Food Security’.
Role play group sheets:
HM Government
UK farmers
Egyptian farmers
UK families
UK supermarkets
UK food bank organisers
Each sheet has some background info, two possible questions and space for students’ own questions to prepare before the role play itself.
Stakeholders’ conclusions: Worksheet folowing the role play
Worksheet: complete a divided bar graph showing ‘UK Food Imports’. Then students read the text, highlighting the main reasons why the UK’s food security is a problem.
Finally, they write a conclusion to explain what they have learned about the UK’s food security.
Worksheet: ‘Geo-Hexagons: Food Security’ - war, climate, money, Europe, inflation, shopping. Students explain in detail how each image is linked geographically.
Worksheet - Living Graph: ‘UK Households Experiencing Food Insecurity’ (with 20 clues to choose from).
Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link activity - ’ Food Imports to the UK’ (info sheet including proportional area map, worksheet to complete bar graph showing origin of foodstuffs, PEEL worksheet to complete).
Worksheet - ‘True for who? UK Food Security’
Worksheet - deBono’s ‘Six Hats: Food Security in the UK’.
Worksheet - ‘Thought Chains: Food Security in the UK’. Activity trains students to analyse data in detail using connectives. (Imports, sustainability, food bank use in the UK).
Food Security mystery: ‘Why are UK food prices so high?’
32 clues to distribute amongst students. Includes Ukraine War, changing diets, inflation, food waste).
Worksheet - ‘Geography Web: Food Security in the UK’.
Part filled-in to show how students should complete the activity. Links to be made between: Food supplies, the UK, Ukraine, Russia, migrant workers, petrochemicals).
Teachers’ Background Information: Includes links to original BBC article, academic articles.
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION – PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES
PLATO
THE FORMS
Heraclitus
Realm of the Forms
Realm of Appearances
Hierarchy of the Forms
Allegory of the Cave
Criticisms of the allegory
Darwin
Deus Ex Machina
ARISTOTLE
Method of per genus et per differentia
The Four Causes
The Prime Mover
SOUL, MIND & BODY
THE PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE OF SOUL, MIND AND BODY
Views of Plato:
Psyche
Soul
Tripartite soul
Allegory of the Chariot
Logos
Thymos
Eros
Views of Aristotle:
Soul
Nutritive soul
Sensible soul
Rational soul
METAPHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Substance dualism
Descartes
“Cogito ergo sum”
Mind + body
Pineal gland
Neural dependence
Gilbert Ryle
‘Ghost in a machine’
Materialism
Consciousness
Monism
‘I am a body’
Rejection of soul
Dawkins
‘The Selfish Gene’
SOUL ONE / SOUL TWO
Susan Blackmore
John Hick
soft materialist
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Five pages
DCT – LIVING
CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES
BIBLE = ONLY AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN MORALS
Theonomous Christian ethics
Jesus criticised Pharisees for following law too literally
Sola scriptura
2 Timothy
theopneustos
2 Peter
Issues with theonomous ethics
TRANSLATION
Exodus
WHICH BIBLE
Martin Luther
apocrypha
CONTRADICTIONS (OT vs NT)
CHERRY PICKING
Leviticus
Bibliolatry
INTERPRETATION
BIBLE, CHURCH + REASON
SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN MORALS
Heteronomous
Roman Catholic attitudes
Order of decision-making authority
Sacred Tradition
Magisterium
VATICAN II COUNCIL 1975
Papal infallibility
ex cathedra
Pius IX
Human reason (Natural Law):
JOHN PAUL II
Issues with accepting Church teachings
Jesus
Pharisees
ROSEMARY RADFORD REUTHER
Liberation theology
Protestant attitudes to Church teachings
Order of decision-making
Tradition
Archbishop of Canterbury
Reformation:
STANLEY HAUERWAS
AGAPE
Autonomous Christian ethics
1 Corinthians
Mark
HANS KÜNG
BENEDICT XVI
person of goodwill
'global ethic’
PAUL TILLICH
CHURCH HAS AUTHORITY OVER INDIVIDUALS
Subjectivity
Collective wisdom
God’s word
Agapeic action
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: PERSONAL vs COMMUNAL
Human freewill
Ability to reason
Beliefs of majority
Utilitarianism
God’s judgement of individuals
Community **
CHRISTIAN MORAL ACTION
BONHOEFFER
Assassination attempt against Hitler
DUTY TO GOD + THE STATE
Obedience, leadership + doing God’s will
Cost of Discipleship
Romans
God-given authority
God’s will
DAWKINS
**CHRISTIANS’ KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL **
Conscience
AQUINAS
Humanity corrupted by Fall
Decisions checked by community
Freewill
Civil disobedience
Teachings of Christ
‘Act and Being’
Church or state
Mark
Romans
Exodus
Daniel
MLK + Rosa Parks
Suffragettes
DUTY TO GOD OR STATE?
Choice should be obvious
Jesus
“Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s”
Bonhoeffer
Passivity and evil
Romans
Leadership on Earth
Fundamental Christian principles
Christians protesting abortions
Bonhoeffer’s extreme circumstances
Hitler as ‘anti-Christ’
MEIN KAMPF
Anti-Semitism
CHURCH AS COMMUNITY + SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
Confessing Church
Visible Church community
Proverbs
Sermon on Mount
SALT + LIGHT
‘Religionless Christianity’
Focus on Christ
Finkenwalde
Personal discipline
Look outwards, not inwards
Foundation of prayer
Centrality of study + discussion
Brotherhood
‘Cheap grace’ vs 'costly grace’
Struggling as Christ did
Mark
"The badge of true discipleship”
Jesus “the man for others”
BONHOEFFER’S EMPHASIS ON SUFFERING
Contemporary relevance
Bonhoeffer’s extreme experiences
Effects of globalisation
Jesus as central starting point
Powerpoint and worksheets about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. First part deals with levees and subsidence with a differentiated question. Second part looks at social, economic and environmental effects which are sorted and then used to write a newspaper article. Links to videos included.