This contains a fully resourced, differentiated revision lesson on different scholarly views towards ther distinction between the body and soul, such as Plato and Dawkins. Main activities in the lesson include a group Venn diagram task and essay planning task. It is designed to support the 'Philosophy of Religion' component AS-Level 'OCR Religious Studies' specification. Learning Objectives: To compare the philosophical views towards the distinction between the body and soul. To assess the overall strength of their positions.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated revision lesson on Greek philosophy (namely that of Plato and Aristotle). Main activities in the lesson include a mind mapping task, card sort and written task. It is designed to support the 'Philosophy of Religion' component AS-Level 'OCR Religious Studies' specification. Learning Objectives: To explain the major philosophical views of Plato and Aristotle. To assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of their ideas. To evaluate their overall credibility.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how the teleological argument can be challenged, namely on three grounds: moral (John Stuart Mill), logic (David Hume), and scientific (Charles Darwin). The main part of the lesson involves students working in groups to produce a teaching tool based on their allocated challenge (use poster paper, ensure they also make their own copy), from which they then teach the other groups about their challenge. This leads into a written task where students write a model conclusion to an essay question on the challenges facing the teleological argument. Learning Objectives: To explain why David Hume, Charles Darwin and John Mill rejected the teleological argument. To assess the effectiveness of their objections. To evaluate the overall strength of the teleological argument for the existence of God.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how the different grounds under which religious experiences can be challenged, including psychological, physiological explanations, interpretation difficulties and the inability for humans to experience a divine reality. The main part of the lesson involves students summarising the challenge they have been allocated on the sheet, then peer teaching to others in their group. This leads onto producing a bullet-pointed essay plan on the topic. Learning Objectives: To explain the various challenges to the validity of religious experiences. To assess the strength of these challenges. To evaluate whether the notion of religious experiences is valid.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how the problem of evil can be seen by some to challenge the existence of God. The main part of the lesson involves a brief section of note-taking and class discussion on the basic idea behind the problem of evil, with students suggesting their own solutions to the inconsistent triad (logical problem), followed by a written comprehension exercise on the evidential problem. The lesson concludes with a brainstorming exercise on the strengths and weaknesses of Swinburne’s Free Will Defence and class continuum on its success in resolving the problem of evil. Learning Objectives: To explain the logical and evidential problem as a challenge to the existence of God. To assess one philosophical response to the problem. To evaluate the success of this response.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Plato's dualistic distinction between the body and soul. The main part of the lesson involves note-taking and discussion tasks on the different philosophical distinctions between the body and soul, an information comprehension exercise on Plato's approach, and lastly peer teaching of Plato's rationalist arguments for an independent soul from the body (which includes analysis and ranking). Learning Objectives: To outline the key philosophical views on the distinction between the body and soul. To explain Plato’s distinction between the body and the soul. To examine the credibility of Plato’s arguments.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the validity of Plato's analogy of the cave. The main part of the lesson involves annotating the key symbolism of Plato's cave, to draw up a list of strengths and weaknesses of Plato's analogy (prompt sheet available), then finally recording evaluative comments towards his analogy (this will help to build analysis of the strengths and weaknesses). Learning Objectives: To explain the key symbolism contained within the analogy. To assess its relative strengths and weakness. To evaluate your opinion towards his philosophical view.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Descartes version of the ontological argument and its overall success. The main part of the lesson involves students using two colours to add addotations to a copy of Descartes ontological argument to show how it works and its strengths/weaknesses, followed by a comprehension exercise where students answer a series of questions on how Kant criticised the argument, which is concluded with students writing a model conclusion to an essay question relating to the success of the ontological argument. Learning Objectives: To outline Descartes version of the Ontological argument. To explain why Kant rejected the Ontological argument. To evaluate how successful the argument is in proving the existence of God.

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the ontological argument. The main part of the lesson involves an active class demonstration of Anselm’s first version of the ontological argument (supported with a card sort task), with students then drawing a perfect island to draw out how Gaunilo criticsed this version, with students finally annotating Anselm’s second version of his ontological argument. Learning Objectives: To outline Anselm’s Ontological Argument for the existence of God. To explain Gaunilo’s criticism to it. To assess the strength of Anselm’s reply. (Note: You will require chocolate or other food item for the starter activity)

This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the arguments for and against religious experiences proving the existence of God. The main part of the lesson involves some note-taking, class discussion and written tasks to explain scholarly views for and against religious experiences, followed by an extended written reflection considering whether they believe religious experiences prove the existence of God (with focus on what makes these scholarly arguments strong or weak).

This contains a set of model essays that can be used to support the delivery of the OCR AS Philosophy syllabus. Students could highlight and annotate its strengths and make suggestions for improvements as a task, or alternatively simply use it as a revision aid.