“Sirrrrrrrr… can you do us a thing with all the case studies in?” Erm… no. You can do it yourself. Should be handy for revision. Probably can be adapted for other subjects.

A rather quite simple lesson teaching Postmodernist interpretations of the Media through Pokemon GO! Capitalise on the fad from a few years ago (Yr 13 students will no doubt remember it from earlier in the school). Get them to download it on their phones and tell them to go catch Pokemon for 15 minutes. See how they get on. Show some YouTube news clips about people getting into trouble, then read the texts and complete the table.

Just some straightforward tasks on Moral Panics. Predominantly for A-Level but would easily work for GCSE

Presentation and some tasks on Marxist views on the Media. After connotave codes on the presentation I show some videos of Ads. John Lewis, McDonalds, Special K etc to emphasise the points.

Suitable for A Level Sociology across exam boards.

A very simple and quick task designed to help students sort through types of sources and data. Use near the start of any research methods topic. Useful for pre and post-16

This is a basic revision sheet for Research Methods. Mainly suitable for IGCSE students, especially weaker students, but could be used elsewhere if enlarged to A3.

Very basic task about choosing a research method. Create some introductory questions yourself and get the students to figure it out. Useful as introduction, revision, MIC etc.

This is a large mix and match task covering a lot of the key terms for any Research Methods course. Very useful for revision.

This task is designed to be completed at the end of each method. It takes approx ten minutes, and students have to state how reliable, valid, representative and generalisable each method is on a sliding scale, then justify the answer. Could be cut down to just reliability and validity for GCSE.

These are some resources to develop knowledge and understanding of Life Chances. Specifically focused on IGCSE Sociology. The Life Chances cards should be used as a ranking activity.

This is a task to indicate the difficulties of welfare spending in poorer countries. Print the sheet off and enlarge to A3. Give students a budget (i start off with 200 Billion) and let them spend. They have to spend incrementally, so if they want everything in one area it costs 55 Billion). After they have done this, slash the budget to 30 billion and do the same task.

We all know that Sampling is one of the most boring topics on any Sociology syllabus. Here are all the resources you’ll probably need to get through it at any post-16 course. It’s a dry topic but this covers all the bases I should think. All of it is pretty self-explanatory and tasks do lend themselves to linking to Methods in Context.

Sorting task just highlight in blue New Right policies, and in red the Social Democratic policies. Easy to use and then provoke discussion. Sheet to be filled in afterwards.

This is a basic task which should be completed near the start of any research method topic. It’s a pretty basic sort the cards out into the right box task, the actual table should be printed on A3 and the cards cut out on card. Once stuck on correctly, students should have this table on their desks whilst each individual method is being taught.

Pretty detailed matching task on Sociological concepts. Ideal for AS revision.

This should be enlarged to A3. Designed with IGCSE in mind but could also be used for AS level. Fine for all syllabus.

This is a full lesson analysing contemporary feminism through Darts, specifically Fallon Sherrock at the Worlds in December 2019. YouTube links are in the notes. Tasks integrated in. Very niche, but very easy to teach. An interesting twist on feminism. EDIT: Added a PDF of the PPT as it was reported to not be working.

These are based on some very old resources I had. I have since tidied them up and made them more accessible. Nothing special, just some graphic organisers to help students formulate some arguments around New Media. One sheet is designed to be an intro where they do two spider diagrams identifying forms of old and new media. Like I said, nothing special.

I took an ancient resource on here and updated it with activities and make it more student friendly. Designed with IGCSE in mind but advanced enough that can be used for A-Level. Two lessons worth, very discussion based. I have checked that all the videos are on YouTube as of 11/2019.