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).
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This resource covers both the Pluralism and Theology unit and the Pluralism and Society unit from the Development of Christian Thought A2 section of OCR A-level RS. It includes two complete PowerPoints and two workbooks, one for each unit, as well as a worksheet task on the key questions.
This explores issues of inclusivism, pluralism and exclusivism, questioning whether Christ is the truth. It also covers issues of interfaith dialogue, the scriptural reasoning movement, multi-faith societies and whether Christians have a duty to convert others.
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This resource covers the Problem of Evil unit taught in the A-level RS AQA specification. I do have another resource covering OCR which may be more helpful if that is your exam board!
This covers the whole unit, including a PowerPoint and a work booklet which matches identically to reinforce student-led learning.
It covers key topics such as the logical problem of evil and the inconsistent triad, with theodicies offered by Augustine, Irenaeus and Hick, such as the soul-making theodicy. It also explores key questions, such as whether the logical or evidential aspects of the problem of evil are more challenging for belief and overall whether monotheism can be defended in the face of evil.
It is all ready to go - can just pick up and teach. If you do like this resource, please leave a rating and a review. Happy teaching!
A Medical Ethics Unit lasting 12 hours (one lesson is a double) that was created for Year 9 RE, but could easily be used for a capable Year 8 or none-GCSE KS4 group.
Each lesson is very detailed, editable and differentiated three ways with colour-coded challenge tasks for every activity. The lessons are very easy to follow as all the instructions are on the PowerPoints and worksheets. Each of the individual lessons have had excellent reviews so far.
The unit includes:
What are the religious and ethical views on abortion? A lesson exploring the pro-choice and pro-life debate and introducing the concept of sanctity and quality of life.
What are the religious and ethical views on euthanasia? A lesson examining the quality vs sanctity of life debate in detail while examining types of euthanasia and religious views on these.
Stem Cell Research - an investigation into embryology and the controversial issues surrounding the science. The lesson investigates how scripture can be applied to these issues and why there is so much debate.
Capital Punishment and The Death Penalty - a two hour lesson which focuses on capital punishment, its legal status around the world, the moral and religious arguments for and against and the history of the death penalty.
Drugs and morality - a lesson exploring the moral and religious debate around drug use before examining religious quotes and practicing GCSE style exam questions.
Genetic Engineering - an overview lesson on test tube and designer babies as well as religious objections to the technology, with a focus on Christianity and Islam.
An detailed article with differentiated comprehension questions all about the ethics, morality and faux-science of the anti-vaxxer movement.
Why do some religions have objections to particular medical technologies and procedures?
IVF - what is this and what are the different religious views towards it?
What do Islam and Christianity believe about medical death?
Religion and science - are they forever destined to work against each other, or can they work together?
Assessment, feedback and mark scheme
Scheme of work
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A revision workbook for AQA Religious Studies A Christianity and Islam, plus themes A (Relationships and Families) B (Religion and Life) D (Religion, Peace and Conflict) and E (Religion, Crime and Punishment)
Workbook includes:
A ‘Self-Audit’ to indicate students own knowledge of each topic, based on the Exam Specification.
List of Key Terms for each topic
Space for notes along with space for quotes/teachings on each topic
Sample questions for each topic
Please note, there is information about dates of exams for 2023, but this can easily be changed to 2024 and beyond. Also this book DOES NOT include Themes C or F.
Firstly, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the more than 1000 of you who have downloaded this display pack! I hope your classrooms look gorgeous!
This is a complete 200+ page pack of a number of classroom displays that I have developed over the last couple of years to invigorate my department. Two updated booster packs have already been added.
Original Display Pack:
- Philosophers and Religious Figures Timeline (Over 40 thinkers with pictures, dates and outlines of their thinking).
- Famous quote callouts to add along the timeline (one for almost every philosopher). Get students talking!
- Custom-made colourful lettering for timeline eras.
- Over 20 ethical and philosophical questions in colourful speech bubbles to inspire thinkers in your classroom (A great one for open-evenings or tutor time discussions!)
- Steps/Levels display with optional number arrows. Department levels policy documents included.
- ‘How to’ guides for all displays.
Booster Pack 1:
- Philosophical Language Literacy Display with sentence starters for knowledge/explanation and assessment/evaluation.
- Agree --> Disagree continuum signposts to make human bar charts in your classroom!
- Blooms thinking guidance for teachers with question prompts. Great for shrinking and sticking on desks or displaying at the back of the room.
Booster Pack 2:
- A raft of additional thinkers to give greater flexibility to the Philosopher Timeline across exam boards.
- Quotes for every new thinker of course!
I’ve also added another high-quality display pack covering Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/logical-fallacies-and-cognitive-biases-display-pack-philosophy-psychology-11925635
These detailed course / revision notes were specially written to give AQA A Level Religious Studies students a comprehensive understanding of all the key knowledge from the specification for Component 2: Study of religion and dialogues - 2B Christianity:
Section A: Christianity
Sources of wisdom and authority
God
Self, death and afterlife
Good conduct and key moral principles
Expressions of religious identity
Christianity, gender and sexuality
Christianity and science
Christianity and the challenge of secularisation
Christianity, migration and religious pluralism
Section B: Dialogues
The dialogue between Christianity and philosophy
The dialogue between Christianity and ethics
These extensive notes are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics / areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. They give peace of mind that every single corner of the specification/syllabus has been covered in great detail.
Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)
24 hours+ (around 140 resources, all worksheets, powerpoints and everything totalled up) of Citizenship GCSE 1-9 revision and lesson content. This revision + lessons Mega Pack also contains 2 x exam question generators. Used for AQA but content covered by OCR and EDEXCEL too. Huge bundle of lessons, revision booklets to be given out in the lessons or as revision materials later, past question practices, differentiated 1-9 activities, campaigning packs and a fun GCSE question generator.
Suitable for GCSE Citizenship 9-1 easily adapable (all editable formats)
Different level tasks for MA,LA or Core
Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above.
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A complete student workbook for the death and afterlife unit of the OCR A-level Religious Studies syllabus, Development of Christian Thought unit. It can also be applicable for other exam boards, such as Edexcel and AQA.
The workbook is 17 pages covering beliefs in heaven, hell and purgatory; whether these are spiritual, symbolic or physical places; different beliefs about election (including limited, unlimited and universalism); the importance of Jesus’ resurrection and the teachings of St. Paul; the key questions of the unit - e.g. whether the afterlife is eternal, if purgatory is a state everyone goes through and whether heaven is the perfection and transformation of the whole of creation. This includes a great range of Biblical scripture and parables, and key scholars, e.g. Calvin, Augustine, HIck and Barth - to name a few
There a range of different activities and key questions for discussion. The whole unit can be taught purely form the workbook with enough space for students notes and clear structure for the whole scheme of work.
I usually take approximately ten teaching hours with the use of this booklet for the whole unit.
I hope you find it useful and happy teaching!
This is a complete unit of work that meets the specification of Eduqas’s A-level RS - Component 3 - Ethics - Theme 3def - Utilitarianism.
This resource includes 11 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons). It was designed for Year 12 in my school and to be taught as the sixth topic in the ethics component (after divine command theory, virtue theory, ethical egoism, natural law and situation ethics)
MINIMAL PRINTING
It includes:
A tracker for the whole of the Y12 content (Theme 1abc, Theme 2abc, Theme 3abcdef)
Bentham’s Utilitarianism lesson
Hedonic Calculus lesson
JS Mill Development lesson
Writing a 20MQ lesson
Strengths and weaknesses of Utilitarianism lesson
DIRT on 20MQ lesson
Issues for analysis and evaluation lesson with worksheet
Writing a 30MQ lesson
DIRT on 30MQ lesson
Application of Utilitarianism to animal experimentation for medical research
Application of Utilitarianism to the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent
20MQ and 30MQ marking stickers (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’.
This is complete and ready to teach!
Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
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This printable textbook provides a systematic explanation for every point mentioned in the specification.
In the next section It then provides arguments for and against each point and, where appropriate, summarises arguments using premises and conclusions.
The file is a .doc Word file, 140 pages in length, 72000 words.
It is designed to be a comprehensive reader for AQA Philosophy students.
This should be viewed as a printable information book: it does not include learning activities or images. It aims to provide the necessary information as effectively and comprehensively as possible.
Note: it does not cover the Applied Ethics section which, if this resource succeeds, will be covered in a later volume.
This is a complete unit of work ready to teach!
This resource covers the arguments from reason unit of the OCR A-level RS, focusing on the ontological argument. It includes arguments from Anselm, Gaunilo, Descartes, Kant and Malcolm, with key questions, such as whether or not existence can be treated as a predicate, considered and evaluated.
This resources includes a PowerPoint covering the whole unit, a workbook which matches the PowerPoint exactly and encourages student-led learning, as well as a set of revision notes and guidance for answering 40-mark questions.
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Liberation Theology for OCR A Level Religious Studies Developments in Christian thought.
This is the full unit broken down into detailed 5-6 individual lessons within a 40 slide PowerPoint presentation. It includes information worksheets for key scholars and influences including Gutierrez, Marx, Segundo and Pope Francis and discussion around Jesus Christ as a social revolutionary. This pack also includes detailed information sheets for students on core themes including interviews with Gutierrez, a breakdown of Liberation Theology and its links with Marxism as well as a resource around Pope Francis. This also includes embedded videos, links and images to improve visual interest for students. The resources included provide class, homework and assessment opportunities covering the full range and depth of this OCR A Level unit.
2x Lessons - British Values and our Complex Sense of Identity. NEW GCSE Citizenship Lessons (9-1) Product Code: CIT/C8/LS/07
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
This resource contains:
1 x PowerPoint for double lesson 120 min - British Values and Identity
1 x PDF hand-out sheet
2 x Differentiated exam practice sheets
These PowerPoint and PDF resources can be used to cover the GCSE Citizenship topic Multicultural Britain and Living Together in the UK.
This lesson material is designed to be used for between two and three teaching periods and includes; activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, student hand-out (for use during lesson or as a homework), embedded URL links (where appropriate), differentiated tasks and, all relevant information to help students learn about issues relating to the topic.
AQA Specification covered is: Theme 1 Life in Modern Britain
Edexcel Specification covered is: Theme A Living Together in the UK
OCR Specification covered is: Section 3 The UK and the Wider World
Product Code: CIT/C8/LS/07
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A professionally designed Christmas quiz for Religious Studies teachers to use with their students, featuring 60 well-presented questions and an answer sheet.
If you like it: leave a 5* rating and email us (godwin86@gmail.com) and we’ll send you a beautiful Christmas Crossword worksheet for free!
The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds.
Fifty of the questions are Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology, KS4 exam specification contents, or “fun facts”.
Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
The resource is fully editable.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2018)
Not for re-distribution.
Covers the whole topic of Christianity, Migration, Multiculturalism & Religious Pluralism:
How migration has created multicultural societies, which include Christianity, with particular reference to the diversity of faiths in Britain today; freedom of religion as a human right in European law and religious pluralism as a feature of modern secular states; the influence of this context on Christian thought. Developments in Christian thought: - Christian attitudes to other faiths: Exclusivism with ref to John 14:6; Inclusivism with ref to the concept of ‘anonymous Christians’; how Christian denominations view each other - Pluralism with ref to John Hick; its implications for interfaith and interdenominational relations - Christian responses to issues of freedom of religious expression in society
Includes a variety of activities, such as: previous learning recap, discussion points, textbook work, video, data analysis of religiosity, a booklet to complete, exam questions. To illustrate about religious diversity in Britain, I have referenced the Jewish community in Bournemouth as local to the students I teach; you might want to change this to a community near you.
Included: PPT, lesson plan, migration timeline sheet, Christian influences and attitudes booklet
Not included: textbook
This resource consists of two speaking and listening discussions for Functional Skills English Level 1. It is for staff use, providing a topic for a discussion and a checklist to assess the pupils progress. Although this assessment follows the theme of Christmas, it can easily be edited for any topic and used multiple times. There are two pages for each activity, one for teachers to assess multiple pupils and one for assessing one pupil which can be placed in this pupil’s file.
The first discussion asks pupils to imagine that they are arranging a charity Christmas dinner. As a group they must discuss what food and drink to serve, what activities to put on, where to hold it and what charity to raise money for. The must make a final decision as a group to end the discussion.
The second discussion poses the question, “Is Christmas too commercialised?” In a group, students must discuss this question and come to a group conclusion. This discussion is linked to our Christmas Functional Skills English Level 1 reading resource.
Both discussion should last around 15 minutes, but it depends on the number of pupils involved.
Please look at our other Functional Skills Christmas resources ranging from Entry Level 1 to Level 1 and including reading, writing and speaking and listening activities.
A workbook which has a series of research tasks for students and makes full use of reading beyond the curriculum.
Some of the stated resources may not be available for most schools but I put it out there for use.
The powerpoint has been checked by my son who has Mears Irlens syndrome and none of the letters moved about. It has been put together from several powerpoints on the TES web site with additional information provided by myself. Topics include Siddartha's life, Kisagotami, The Universal Truths, The Noble Truths, Nirvana, Life as a Monk, Wesak. I am a teacher in a single person department and welcome comments.
A series of clear posters and labels which name the 5 British Values and give a brief child-friendly statement in explanation.
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