Students complete guided tasks and watch a video on Postmodernism before preparing and holding a debate.

This is an introduction and welcome lesson to A Level AQA sociology. The lesson focuses on an introduction to the Functionalism Perspective.

Full A Level Lesson on Talcott Parsons and AGIL and Organic Analogy

Informarion sheet on Emile Durkheim and 3 questions to go with it.

Complete lesson and resources introducing Emile Durkheim and Functionalism perspectives for AQA A-Level Sociology

Decision making lesson on how Prince SIddhartha became the Buddha. Includes whole lesson PowerPoint, card activity and information sheet.

Interesting “no pen” approach to marking- the focus is on Pursuit of Excellence tasks. This policy means that feedback models excellence for students and then requires them to improve their work according to the model provided. Students have responded incredibly well to this approach and it has shortened the amount of “wasted” time spent on marking.

This download includes full lesson PowerPoint, activity table and homework.

labels have been created that can be printed and then stuck directly into student’s books. The idea behind the stickers is for you to identify the literacy error and then to stick the rule and example into their exercise book or onto their work so that they can correct the errors. The labels can be changed to fit onto any size.

This is an editable resource that enables students to review their work and supports their editing process. It provides them with guidance on what good explanations need, shows the difference between sequential explanations and casual. Gives sentence starters and reflection points too.

An editable resource that supports students in editing their extended writing to ensure that they have used contextual knowledge to support their points. It provides students with using contextual knowledge to analyse a source, although this could be removed if not appropriate. It gives examples of connectives from the point and connectives to the explanation to follow the PEEL paragraph structure. There are 4 reflection questions for students to consider too.

Whole lesson focusing on Robert K Merton - Fully resourced.

Full lesson that answers the key question What is the unequal social distribution of health chances in the UK according to social class?

Summary of The Marmot Review (2010): Addressing Health Inequalities in England information and ranking task linked to Peter Saunders

Information sheet and questions on: Raymond Illsley’s Insights on Social Class and Health

The Research of Saunders on Social Class and Health Behaviours information sheet

Information sheet on the evaluations of Talcott Parsons’ Sick Role and a Silent debate statements.

Whole lesson including core information, video and silent debate

This is an interactive lesson that explain the concept of Difference Feminism. You will need to purchase “ingredients” for this lesson, where students are creating a mocktail! Each element of the mocktail represents something importance to Difference Feminism. Students then go on to complete an advertisement campaign for this cocktail.