Based around the question 'What is Philosophy and Ethics?', this display looks at RE/ Philosophy & Ethics from different viewpoints: politics, maths, history, writing, science etc to show why RE/ Philosophy & Ethics is important today!
AQA syllabus Religious Studies for Philosophy and Ethics. An A-level lesson introducing the concept of philosophy with a particular focus on exploring meta-ethics. There is an outline of the major branches of philosophy introduced through video clips from popular Hollywood films to allow students to connect with the quite abstract nature of philosophical inquiry; meta-physics, epistemology, meta-ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and ethics. If watching all clips and allowing for discussion of student understanding, this can last a full 60 minute lesson, This is followed by a peer-teach style lesson on meta-ethics, where peer-teachers are chosen from among the students (I usually choose high ability) and the rest of the class carousel between them to gather information. This is followed by a reflection using De Bono's Hats. The meta-ethics element of the lesson can also be stretched to last 60 minutes, making this cover 2 sessions. This lesson always divides the class into those inspired and those who feel their brain has been squashed - I love teaching it.
This resource contains all relevant materials for the ‘Meta-Ethics’ section of Moral Philosophy for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included alongside exam materials and questions to probe students for deeper thinking. For further activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resource includes:
Moral Realism
Naturalism
Innatism
Moral Anti-Realism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
Cognitivism and non-Cognitivism
Strengths and issues of these
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A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated 2 hour lesson which serves as an introduction to Ethics. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE or philosophy unit and focuses on philosophers, theories and fallacies.
This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning and contains match up tasks, clip tasks, literacy and debate tasks, information sheets and more, as well as an engaging 2 hour PowerPoint. It is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task and very easy to follow.
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This resources contains all materials needed for Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, as part of the ‘Moral Philosophy’ section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included, alongside relevant exam practice and questions to probe student understanding. For additional activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resources includes:
Function of the soul
Moral responsibility
Virtue and vice
Doctrine of the Mean
The role of practical wisdom/reasoning
Eudaimonia
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
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This resource contains all lessons for ‘Moral Philosophy’ under AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for either the AS or A-Level, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
An introduction to Moral Philosophy
Utilitarianism (including: Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Two-Tier Utilitarianism, Psychological Hedonism, strengths/issues of Utilitarianism and application of Utilitarianism to the eight specified scenarios)
Deontological Kantian Ethics (including: The Categorical Imperative, The Universal Law Formulation, The Humanity Formulation, strengths/issues of Deontological Kantian Ethics and application of Kantian Ethics to the eight specified scenarios
Aristotelian Virtue Ethics (including: the function of the soul, Aristotelian virtue/vice, the Doctrine of the Mean, the role of practical wisdom/reasoning, Eudaimonia, strengths/issues of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and application of Virtue Ethics to the eight specified scenarios
Meta-Ethics (including: Moral Realism, Naturalism, Innatism, Moral Anti-Realism, Emotivism, Prescriptivism and Cognitivism/Non-Cognitivism)
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
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An easy to follow end of unit assessment, mark scheme and feedback sheet for an introduction unit on philosophy and ethics. It has been created for the EC Publishing Introduction to Philosophy unit, but is editable and can be tweaked to suit your own. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE or philosophy unit and focuses on philosophers, theories and fallacies.
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 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.
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Set of lessons (all in one PP-102 slides/sectioned as below)
Lessons link
Re-cap throughout
Range of scaffolded activities
Teacher friendly/answers are revealed on hidden slides etc.
Lessons ready to go and well-resourced
Assessment throughout (could be done as a lesson or home learning if needs to be taught over one half term)
Taught all the way through - amazing pupil engagement
**Philosophy: **
L1 – What is Philosophy (Socrates)
L2 – Existence of God – Introduction to Arguments
L3 – The Design Argument
L4 – Miracles
L5 – Existence of God Extended Writing
Ethics:
L1 – Introduction to Ethics/Utilitarianism
L2 – Deontology
L3 – Utilitarianism and Deontology Extended Writing
Application:
L1 – Introduction to Capital Punishment and Debate
L2 and 3 – Documentary and Consolidation/Evaluation Activities
L4 – Capital Punishment Extended Writing and Speech
A complete collection of resources needed for studying Deontological Kantian Ethics for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. This contains all relevant theories, criticisms and and defences. Whilst questions and activities are provided, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook for additional activities.
Resource includes:
The Categorical Imperative
The Universal Law Formulation
The Humanity Formulation
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
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A detailed scheme of work created for our [Introduction to Religion, Philosophy and Ethics Unit] which covers one term’s resources and includes an assessment and mark scheme. This was created for our Complete Year 8 RE package, which can be found on Tes here.
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.
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
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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.
A range of revision worksheets that cover the Edexcel Catholic Christianity and Philosophy and Ethics sections of the Religious studies course. I use these for year 10 and 11 mock and GCSE Exam revision and independent study.
Included are:
Prayer, Creation, Pilgrimages, Visions,
Eschatology and Life after death
Forms of Expression
Religious Imagery and Symbols
Architecture and Design
Marriage and Divorce
Remarriage
Gender Prejudice and discrimination
The Design Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Trinity
Evil and Suffering
Designed as an introduction to philosophy and ethics in year 9, looking at key philosophical skills and the types of ethical questions discussed at philosophy and ethics GCSE.
A series of summer tasks for students to complete before starting their AS Philosophy of Religion and Religious Ethics. This is designed for the OCR Specification (G571 and G572).
The 4 week test and mark scheme cover some basics around argumentation and logic in Philosophy and Ethics. It is designed to bridge the gap between a full AS assessment and a Level 2/GCSE assessment.
The Summer Tasks involve reading, research and link to the 4 week test.
The other two sheets are handouts/worksheets to help prepare students for Part 1 of the test.
This is a series of 8 posters depicting various famous people with Religion, Ethics and Philosophy related degrees that I have used to create a raising aspirations and employability display promoting REP related careers and degrees.
I have attempted to include a range of both male and female people with a broad range of careers paths. These include, actors, comedians, footballers and civil rights leaders.
The degrees mentioned include: Theology, Philosophy, PPE and Eastern Religions.
Alongside the posters I have created smaller sized cards depicting various REP degree courses around the country which annotate a map of the UK. (To be uploaded shortly)
Photos of the completed display to be uploaded shortly.
The lesson discusses what it means to be a good person and ethics.
Level: Advanced (C1)
Time: 90 min+
Age: 15+
Language: discussing what it means to be a good person.
Additional resources: lesson uses YouTube.
This bundle is made up a detailed handbook which can easily work with both workbooks with matching headings to combined together. The Ethics quotes are a useful way of helping to share and display key religious teachings
3 ESSAY PLANS INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE
These essay plans helped me get an A* overall in OCR Philosophy & Ethics (Full Marks on ethics paper).
Essay plans discussing the complexities surrounding Death & Afterlife. The essay plans have a particular focus on AO1, so that students are able to learn this topics content whilst acknowledging how they are going to categorise this information in an essay. This produces essays that contain the most relevant and well-organised information. These essay plans specifically target the knowledge that ‘learners should know’ as said on the specification.
These essay plans are VERY detailed. This is because I designed my essay plans so that they can be used without the aid of revision notes, in isolation. All the extra detail you need on the topics have been included in the essay plans.