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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.

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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
Why Are Bar Mitzvah's Important For Jews
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Why Are Bar Mitzvah's Important For Jews

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Bar Mitzvah's. The main part of the lesson involves using resource sheets to complete a set of differentiated questions on the activities building up to a Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony itself, and then consider in a consolidation task why they are important for individual Jews and their communities. To describe the key features of a Bar Mitzvah. To explain why these features are important. To analyse the importance of the ceremony for young Jews and their community as a whole.
Why Is Baptism Important For Christians
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Why Is Baptism Important For Christians

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Christian baptism. The main part of the lesson involves students using a resource sheet to describe what happens during a baptism, a ranking task where students consider the importance of reasons why baptism is important for Christians, and a scenario-based discussion task where they finally consider difficulties the ceremony may create for young people. Learning Objectives: To describe what happens during a typical baptism. To explain why baptism is important for Christians. To assess the difficulties this ceremony can bring for young people.
Why Is Life Seen As A Journey
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Why Is Life Seen As A Journey

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the milestones the average person in the UK may experience in their life. The main part of the lesson involves students creating an annotated timeline of all the key milestones, explaining how and why they are celebrated. This can form part of a piece of display work if you wish to do so. To identify a list of milestones. To describe how milestones are celebrated. To understand why milestones are celebrated.
Miracle Lesson Series
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Miracle Lesson Series

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated set of lessons that are used to teach students the different understandings people can have when they use the term 'miracle', assess different points of view towards them using the 'Miracle of the Sun' as a case study, consider the importance of miracles for Christians in the context of both the Old Testament and New Testament, and finally the problems associated with them using the 17th Century philosopher David Hume. It should be taught in the following order: 1. What is a miracle? 2. Was the 'Miracle of the Sun' actually a miracle? 3. What miracles can be found in the Old Testament? 4. What miracles can be found in the New Testament? 5. What are the problems with miracles?
What Is A Miracle
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What Is A Miracle

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how different groups of people understand miracles. The main part of the lesson involves a discussion task considering different points of view towards miracles, then considering the 'miracle of the crystal tears', students complete a worksheet explaining different potential points of view towards it (e.g. atheist, theist). It also allows them to express their own personal viewpoint towards the miracle. Learning Objectives: To describe the different views towards miracle. To explain why they might hold those views. To assess your own view on what makes a miracle.
What Is Plato's Theory Of Forms
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What Is Plato's Theory Of Forms

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Plato's theory of forms. The main part of the lesson involves note-taking and class discussion on the fundamentals of his theory, after which they carry out an independent reading task. This is followed by students analysing the criticisms of his theory followed by a traffic light plenary task. Learning Objectives: To understand Plato’s Theory of Forms. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the theory.
Epistemology - Plato And Aristotle
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Epistemology - Plato And Aristotle

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated set of lesson on Plato's analogy of the cave and Aristotle's theory of the four causes. It should be taught in the following order: 1. What is Plato's analogy of the cave? 2. How valid is Plato's analogy of the cave? 3. What is Plato's theory of forms? 4. What are Aristotle's four causes? 5. What is the Prime Mover? 5.
What On Earth Is A Human Being
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What On Earth Is A Human Being

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on what makes us truly human. The main part of the lesson involves students working in pairs to describe characteristics that make us human (table outline provided), using a clip to add further ideas, then finally completing a piece of writing on what they believe is the most important thing that makes us human. Learning Objectives: To describe the different characteristics that makes us human. To explain your viewpoint on what makes us human.
What Is Inside A Church
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What Is Inside A Church

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the features of a church. The main part of the lesson involves using a clip to describe the key features of a church, then ranking them from most to least important and justifying their choices. Learning Objectives: To describe the key features found inside a Church and their purpose. To explain why they are important for a Christian. To investigate why a Church is of value to a Christian.
Should People Have The Right To Abort A Foetus
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Should People Have The Right To Abort A Foetus

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson which acts as an introduction to abortion. The main part of the lesson involves a true or false worksheet on the UK law on abortion, a card sort on the stages of foetal development and video from which they mark on where they believe life begins, and use a set of adverts to help them explain in spider diagram format pro-life and pro-choice arguments. Learning Objectives: To outline the UK law regarding abortion. To explain different views as to when life begins. To explore reasons behind Pro-Choice and Pro-Life beliefs.
What Are Christian Attitudes Towards Abortion
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What Are Christian Attitudes Towards Abortion

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Christian attitudes to abortion. The main part of the lesson involves students producing a fact file on either the Anglican or Catholic viewpoint, which is then peer taught, followed with a set of Biblical quotes from which students have to explain which denomination they believe it best supports, and finally complete a piece of extended writing where they express their personal viewpoint towards abortion (linking it to religious and secular arguments). Learning Objectives: To explain varying Christian attitudes towards abortion. To explore how Biblical evidence can support their views. To evaluate the morality of abortions.
What Are Christian Attitudes To Euthanasia
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What Are Christian Attitudes To Euthanasia

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Christian attitudes to euthanasia. The main part of the lesson involves a card sort where students organise the key arguments into those that support either the Anglican or Catholic viewpoint, a Biblical quote analysis task, and a 12-mark evaluation practice exam question. Learning Objectives: To explain different Christian attitudes towards euthanasia. To examine how Biblical evidence can support these viewpoints. To evaluate whether euthanasia is acceptable or not.
Should People Have The Right To Die
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Should People Have The Right To Die

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson which acts as an introduction to euthanasia. The main part of the lesson involves a match-up task on the different types of euthanasia, a colour coding exercise on the secular arguments for and against euthanasia, then finally a group exercise where students have to produce a short newspaper article where they use the arguments to try to convince the other half of the class (the public) that Frankie Dunn was right/wrong in helping Maggie to die (scenario based on the movie 'Million Dollar Baby'. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of euthanasia. To explain non-religious arguments for and against the morality of euthanasia. To analyse which side you believe presents the strongest argument.
What Are The Problems With Miracles
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What Are The Problems With Miracles

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the problems associated with miracles, focusing on those from David Hume. The main part of the lesson involves students summarising them into their notes and using those as a basis, linked to a case study, to produce an advertising campaign designed to convince people that miracles simply do not happen. Learning Objectives: To explain why David Hume argues miracles are impossible. To apply his arguments to a real world case study. To express your personal view towards his criticisms.
What Miracles Can Be Found In The Old Testament
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What Miracles Can Be Found In The Old Testament

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on miracles from the Old Testament. The main part of the lesson focuses on the '10 Plagues' miracle, where students watch a clip and record the plagues in their exercise book, discuss and make notes as a class why it is important for Christians (and the potential problems), then finally create a survival kit for the '10 Plagues' if it were to happen in the modern day. To describe one example of a miracle from the Bible. To explain why Christians see it as important. To investigate its use as proof of the existence of God.
What Miracles Can Be Found In The New Testament
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What Miracles Can Be Found In The New Testament

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the miracles in the New Testament, in particular the 'Feeding of the 5000'. The main part of the lesson involves discussing in detail the different views people may hold towards miracles, after which students create a newspaper article explaining different viewpoints (as if they were there) towards the miracle. Learning Objectives: To describe different viewpoints towards Biblical miracles. To explain how these viewpoints could link to one New Testament miracle. To assess how credible you believe the miracle to be.
Was The 'Miracle Of The Sun' Actually A Miracle
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Was The 'Miracle Of The Sun' Actually A Miracle

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the 'Miracle of the Sun', otherwise known as the Fatima miracle. The main part of the lesson involves reading the story as a class and summarising it into a grid, a pair ranking task of arguments for and against the event being a genuine miracle, and a continuum line task where students express their view towards the event. Learning Objectives: To describe the story of the miracle. To explain the contrasting arguments held about the event. To evaluate whether you personally believe the event was a miracle.
What's The Age?
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What's The Age?

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the legal age limits in the UK. The main part of the lesson involves students completing a worksheet detailing the age limits for different activities in the UK and them explaining whether they believe they are appropriate or not, and why. To outline the legal age limits for activities in the UK. To explain your opinion towards the appropriateness of these limits. To explore what you consider to be age appropriate limits.
What Is A Religious Experience
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What Is A Religious Experience

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introductory lesson on religious experiences. The main part of the lesson involves students produce a spider diagram showing William James’s criteria for a religious experience, working in groups to complete a grid task showing its different types (i.e. mystical, corporate, conversion, visions and voices) and then link it back to William James’s classification scheme for analysis (how these examples meet some or all of his criteria), finishing off with a fun and innovative plenary. Learning Objectives: To describe the meaning of a religious experience. To explain the various categories of religious experience. To analyse whether they meet William James criteria for a religious experience.
OCR AS Philosophy - The Existence Of God (Theme 2)
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OCR AS Philosophy - The Existence Of God (Theme 2)

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This contains a set of fully resourced, differentiated lessons on arguments for the existence of God to cover the OCR AS Philosophy specification for Theme 2 - The Existence Of God. It was taught in the following order: What Is The Teleological Argument? How Can The Teleological Argument Be Challenged? What Is The Cosmological Argument? What Is The Ontological Argument? Does The Ontological Argument Work?