A new unit all about new movements and alternative religions. Created to really engage and intrigue students in the wonderful subject of RE, before they go on to do the (slightly drier) GCSE courses in more mainstream religions. Includes: An investigation into cult leaders vs religious leaders An Introduction to Scientology An introduction to Mormonism An introduction to Humanism An introduction to Jehovah’s Witnesses An introduction to the Amish An introduction to alternative Islam An introduction to the Illuminati An introduction to Atheism A introduction to Rastafarianism Special Christmas lesson on Paganism Assessment, mark scheme and feedback sheet Scheme of work 11 x 1 hour lessons: 11 x one hour PowerPoints dozens of worksheets, fully differentiated, clip links, activities, all you need for teaching the unit to students who don’t have much background info on the movements (with plenty to challenge those who do). MORE RE RESOURCES You can also find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecteachresources/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ec_publishing and our website EC Publishing .com

More added! Now 5 hours’ worth of lessons introducing Buddhism - perfect for KS3. This pack has been created for Year 8 although could be tweaked for other KS3 groups. It can be used with students who know very little about Buddhism to begin with. Each lesson contains a detailed PowerPoint and worksheets, well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, a variety of activities, information packs, clips with differentiated questions, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activities. The pack is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow. Lessons included: Introduction to Buddhism, Buddha’s life and Wesak Introduction to Buddhist Beliefs (Three Universal Truths, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path) Introduction to Buddhist Holy Texts (focus on Tripitaka) BONUS LESSON: Reincarnation Free assessment (Hinduism and Buddhism assessment) Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

Thanks to all of those who have left reviews below and helped this to become the “go-to” resource for teaching Buddhism at GCSE level. This bundle contains 20 high-quality lessons, each with lesson plans, presentations, and most with worksheets. It is suitable for all GCSE specifications: especially AQA and OCR. It covers all necessary material for the ‘Beliefs, Teachings & Practices’ section (Section A) of the course in relation to BUDDHISM. It is the product of many weeks work: I have aimed to make these resources such that every lesson would receive a good or outstanding rating if inspected. All lesson downloads include: -A detailed lesson plan: explaining objectives, differentiation, cross-curricular aims, AfL tasks, and an activity timeline. -A presentation file designed to the highest professional standard. -Integrated and varied AfL -A suggested homework task The course features 15 worksheets, a ‘Buddhist board-game’ template, various ‘knowledge hunt’ activities and also features an IT Suite Lesson. It is designed to be a complete course for the first year of GCSE Religious Studies teaching. Downloading this bundle will certainly save you many many hours of preparation time: as a practising Buddhist I hope it will allow Religious Studies Teachers to teach the Buddhist component of their chosen GCSE specification. Positive reviews are warmly welcomed: I have made this course with pride and hope you will find it comprehensive and useful. “May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be peaceful.” . . Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES! GCSE Religious Studies Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit) Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units) Christianity (Thematic Studies Units) Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit) Islam (Thematic Studies Units) .    GCSE Sociology Resources Complete Units (Whole Course) .  AS/A2 Revision Sessions OCR Religious Studies AQA Philosophy AQA Sociology .  Philosophy for Children (P4C) The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack The Debating Society Toolkit Philosophy Boxes . Other Tools A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!) KS3 RE Units

KS3 RE COMPLETE PACKAGE from EC Publishing- Includes lessons, assessments and schemes of work. mark schemes, feedback sheets, homework projects, all divided into half terms. Contains new and exciting content, all written with consultation of a collection of UK city SACRES, so the pack follows the instruction that RE should be ‘in the main, Christian’ (this is about 60%). All of the content is in the three ‘Complete’ downloads, but some of the lessons included have also been added as single resources so you can get a good look at the content. The pack is also available on the EC website at a discounted price. All lessons are complete with at least one hour-long PowerPoint per lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, GCSE -style prep-tasks, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout. Units covered: Year 7 1 Introduction and overview lesson 2) Religious Festivals 3) Christianity 4) World Religions - Beliefs , Life and Death 5) Sikhism 6) End of year RE fun lesson Year 8 Exploring Islam Exploring Judaism Exploring Hinduism and Judaism Religion, Peace and Conflict Philosophy and Ethics Religion and the Afterlife Year 9 New religions, alternative movements and cults Exploring Christian denominations Religion, science, medicine and ethics Religion and Human Rights … Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE + RE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack We also run the EC Publishing website and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

ISLAM Religious Education lessons: belief, practices, teachings, everything. More just added, so now 12 full 1 hour lessons and one assessment. This includes 12 x 1 hour PowerPoints, dozens of worksheets, all fully differentiated, clip links, activities, literacy focus tasks - everything you need for a full teaching unit. Perfect for students who don’t have much background info on the religion (with plenty to challenge those who do) - most suitable for KS3/4 (but amendable and fully differentiated). There is also an optional scheme of work that you can use. All off these lessons are taken from the Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Package. Theres about 20 hours worth of planning here - I use all these lessons myself as Head of RE. Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1 You can also find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecteachresources/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ec_publishing

These engaging and colourful learning mats are indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Developments in Christian Thought, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Each learning mat is downloaded as an A3 Word document and an A4 PDF, for compatibility. Topics include: 1.Augustine on Human Nature 2. Death and the Afterlife 3. Knowledge of God’s Existence 4. Jesus Christ 5. Christian Moral Principles 6. Christian Moral Practices/Action 7. Religious Pluralism 8. Challenge of Secularisation 9. Gender 10. Karl Marx and Liberation Theology Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!

This seven lesson unit is for teachers covering Buddhism as a comparative religion at GCSE level. It covers Theme A: Relationships & Families and focuses on Buddhist views, beliefs and teachings. It was designed around the GCSE AQA specification, Theme A, and, consequently, covers the three topics listed: • Contraception. • Sexual relationships before marriage. • Homosexual relationships. Each lesson is fully resourced and includes a lesson plan, homework, AfL tasks. Most lessons are based around professionally designed A3 worksheets. The resources are authored by the same professional resource designer who created the 20-Lesson GCSE Buddhism bundle for the 'Beliefs, Teachings & Practices' section of the course: which has soon become the highest rated premium GCSE RS product on all of Tes! ( https://goo.gl/5gQDEE ) You can buy this 7 lesson unit alongside a 10-lesson Christianity Thematic Study Unit in one bundle to save money. The lessons included are outlined as follows: Lesson 1 - Sexual Ethics Lesson 2 - Premarital Sex Lesson 3 - Contraception (1) Lesson 4 - Contraception (2) Lesson 5 - Homosexuality Lesson 6 - Unit Overview Lesson 7 - Unit Overview It also contains three bonus resources: -The GCSE Buddhism Ethical Debate Generator -GCSE Buddhism Learning Mats -A PLC (Personal, Learning Checklist) for this unit Positive reviews are warmly welcome! ------------------------------------- The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017) Contents may differ slightly from those depicted on the cover photo, which are meant to be a fair illustration of the quality and activities contained in the download. ____________________ System Requirements: Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word) Printing (for the worksheet) 512MB Ram 1.5GHZ Processor

This bundle is comprised of lessons 1-4 from the 'Christianity: beliefs and teachings' unit for the new AQA A Religious Studies GCSE specification. These lessons are on: 1. God as omnipotent, loving and just 2. Trinity 3. Creation 4. Incarnation Each lesson is fully resourced, differentiated, challenging and engaging. It has been planned by a Lead Practitioner who is passionate about excellent quality teaching and learning. These lessons have been designed for you to 'pick up and go' so there is no preparation work other than a small amount of printing required. I will be adding the next set of lessons on 'Christianity: beliefs and teachings' shortly and these will be available in a separate bundle. Please see my other bundles for the AQA GCSE specification on the Christianity 'practices' unit and Islam 'beliefs and teachings' unit. If you make use of these resources I would be really appreciative of a review.

12 hours of fully resourced Philosophy lessons and an assessment offering an introduction to Philosophy for KS3/4. All lessons include a 1 or 2 hour PowerPoint, clips, worksheets and are differentiated fully to three or four levels. All our RE, PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

This bundle contains ten fully resourced and professionally designed KS4 Religious Studies lessons as well as additional teaching materials for GCSE Religious Studies: Thematic Studies. It has been created for the latest AQA GCSE Religious Studies Specification and covers the thematic study ‘Religion, Peace & Conflict’ (Theme D) and focuses on Christian teachings. It should be useful to all GCSE Religious Studies teachers: even if using other specifications. The download includes 10 Lessons, though some can be used over two 1-hour periods: Introduction Central Debates The Causes of War Christianity, Pacifism & Peaceful Protest Christian Teachings About War & Peace Nuclear Weapons & Weapons of Mass Destruction ICT Suite Lesson Religious Responses to War Assessment Lesson Unit Overview (Video-Learning Worksheet Lesson) The bundle also includes: -A Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for this unit -A collection of older files, relevant to this topic, from my teacher career -A DIRT/AfL Worksheet -The Christian Ethical Debate Generator For most RE teachers this download includes everything you need to teach this thematic study, not including the comparative religion aspect of the thematic study. Lessons about comparative religious traditions will be released at a later date as “bolt-ons” to this 10-lesson unit. My ambition was to make the best available thematic studies resources on Tes, so I hope you like it! If you are pleased with this bundle, please leave a review so that other RE teachers know that it is worth getting :) Feel free to contact me if you have any questions: godwin86@gmail.com ____________________ System Requirements: Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Word) Printing (for the worksheet) 512MB Ram 1.5GHZ Processor The contents of this page, the download, and all included materials are copyrighted by Adam Godwin (2017) . Check-out some of our most popular resources on TES! GCSE Religious Studies Buddhism (20 Lesson Unit) Buddhism (Thematic Studies Units) Christianity (Thematic Studies Units) Hinduism (20 Lesson Unit) Hinduism (Thematic Studies Units) Islam (Thematic Studies Units) . .    GCSE Sociology Resources Complete Units (Whole Course) .  AS/A2 Revision Sessions OCR Religious Studies AQA Philosophy AQA Sociology .  Philosophy for Children (P4C) The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack The Debating Society Toolkit Philosophy Boxes . Other Tools A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!) KS3 RE Units Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)

4 hours’ worth of lessons introducing Hinduism - perfect for KS3. This pack has been created for Year 8 although could be tweaked for other KS3 groups. It can be used with students who know very little about Hinduism to begin with. Each lesson contains a detailed PowerPoint and worksheets, well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, a variety of activities, information packs, clips with differentiated questions, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activities. The pack is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow. Lessons included: Introduction to Hinduism Hinduism and holy texts - Vedas and Rig Veda Hinduism and Gods - Polytheism, Monotheism and Henotheism BONUS LESSON: Reincarnation Free assessment (Hinduism and Buddhism assessment) Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.