A complete scheme of work for A Level Philosophy which also works for IB, Scottish Highers and all equivalent qualifications. Package 1: Identity Theory You will find handouts, resources, essay structures, exam-style questions and writing guides for a comprehensive A Level teaching SoW.

Versatile resource for displays, information sheets for fact-finding tasks, prompts to introduce philosophy at KS4 and KS5, and for delivering an assembly or lecture introducing the subject or advertising it for A Level or post-16 study.

Notes on humanism, humanist politics, for KS4 and KS5, GCSE+, assembly or drop-down dropdown day on humanism.

Detailed 1-2 lessons introducing AQA A Level Philosophy Metaphysics of Mind - Identity Theory. Contains explanations, pupil activities and step-by-step clarifications.

Worksheet for KS5 AQA A Level Philosophy Metaphysics of Mind - intentionality, qualia, mental states.

Full lesson & PPT for KS5 AQA A Level on Descartes’ conceivability argument for substance dualism and full criticisms & responses.

Full lesson PPT for AQA A Level Philosophy Mind - conceivability argument for substance dualism; arguments; whether conceivability is a guide to possibility; different senses of ‘possible’.

Full PPT covering 1-2, max 3, lessons on how both substance dualism & property dualism face issues: Interactionism & issues; Epiphenomenalism & issues Contains all criticisms, with teacher’s notes & replies. KS5. AQA A Level Philosophy. Total 15 slides covering: the empirical interaction problem the conceptual interaction problem evolution by natural selection phenomenology of our mental life (ie as involving causal connections) - how this is unintuitive & makes mental causally redundant introspective self-knowledge - How can we form self-knowledge or even self-beliefs if mental states don’t cause anything?

Can be used as lecture, KS5 lesson, assembly, Drop-Down Day or GCSE+ for (able) KS4 pupils. Analyses three extremely engaging approaches to power: Foucaldian, Marxist and feminist. If you like this, buy ‘Political Philosophy Research Project’ on my TES shop.

Lecture, KS5 lesson, assembly, Drop-Down Day or GCSE+ for (able) KS4 pupils. Full lesson (1hr+) on power in political philosophy & how philosophers have approached power. This is a resource that can be used with a range of pupils and contexts but was produced to teach to the top (Y12 very able cohort in a University Preparation week). Taster for my complete unit of work ‘Political Philosophy Research Project’ available on TES.

Handout on abortion with different views across major religions & non-religious worldviews, including Catholic, atheist/humanist, CofE, Islam and Buddhism.

Full lesson, can be 2 lessons, for Metaphysics of Mind for AQA A Level Philosophy. KS5 Y12 / Y13. Covers qualia, intentionality, & whether either is necessary or sufficient to be a mental state.

2-3 lessons on Metaphysics of Mind - problem of other minds, responses to it and criticisms of responses. Full coverage of AQA A Level spec at KS5.

Full 45-60 mins lesson (1 hour) PPT on Chomsky, innate grammar and innate language. Designed for use with Y12 and Y13 Philosophy students on AQA A Level Philosophy course, but could work for KS5 or post-16 Linguistics, English Language or as an assembly. Contains 12 slides which includes: Case study/scenario as starter activity Explanation of Chomsky’s thesis and key claims Criticisms - 5 criticisms, shared slide-by-slide Responses - with 3 main responses visible on board Plenary activity asking students to evaluate Chomsky’s claim (for AO2 at A Level Philosophy)

Checklist for what to include in a 12-marker at AQA A Level.

Revision quiz for AQA A Level, Scottish Highers, IB, KS4 and KS5 recapping & testing content on ‘Defining Knowledge’.

Handout summarising headlines on ‘Functionalism’ as a theory of mind in A Level Philosophy Metaphysics of Mind. Works post-KS5, IB and as revision resource/recap too.

Lesson on ‘Was Jesus the Son of God?’. Covers CS Lewis’ Trilemma, key quotations, 4-mark influence exam-style question. GCSE AQA, Edexcel, KS3, KS4.

Worksheet, for homework or in-class, on behaviourism, identity theory and criticisms & responses. AQA A Level Philosophy - Metaphysics of Mind.

Full PPT for A Level AQA Philosophy, KS5, post-16. Argument + objections + student activities throughout. 1-2 hours’ lesson.