Issues and Debates – AQA A-level Psychology Topic Overview The Issues and Debates topic challenges students to think critically about how psychological knowledge is developed and applied. It examines the assumptions, biases, and values that underpin psychological theories, and how these impact research and real-world applications. Key areas include: Gender Bias – Understanding androcentrism and alpha vs. beta bias in psychological research. Cultural Bias – The impact of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in the development of psychological theories. Free Will and Determinism – The debate over whether behaviour is freely chosen or shaped by internal/external forces. Nature vs. Nurture – Exploring the influence of genetics and environment on human behaviour. Holism and Reductionism – Whether human behaviour is best understood by breaking it down or looking at it as a whole. Idiographic vs. Nomothetic Approaches – Differences between studying individuals in-depth vs. establishing general laws. Ethical Implications of Research – How psychological findings may influence societal views and policy, especially in socially sensitive research. This topic deepens students’ understanding of psychology as a science and encourages reflection on how values, assumptions, and ethics influence both research and theory.

A revision mind map which is based on the new AQA GCSE PE specification - socio-cultural paper 2 - Commercialisation (media and sponsorship), and ethical and social isses (performance enhancing drugs, ethical conduct, spectator behaviour/hooliganism). It is designed to be printed on A3, however, it can also be printed on A4.

Resources for French GCSE about social issues. Suitable for students who have covered this theme but the resources are editable. Includes a PPT with vocabulary matching, speaking practice, reading texts and a photo card with questions (answers on slides) Also includes a student worksheet with the exercises from the PPT as well as 2 additional reading comprehensions (with answers) and a writing exercise.

Lesson material for Spanish GCSE about social issues. Includes a PPT and accompanying student worksheet with vocab matching, speaking activities, reading comprehensions, a photo card with questions and a writing exercise. Answers are animated on the slides or in the answer key on the worksheet.

A great writing, speaking, reading on social issues in French

This unit of work contains 10 lessons to prepare your students for the general conversation (theme 2, social issues and global issues).

2026 RSHE guidelines compliant (see lesson plan included for details) - A new PSHE online safety lesson suitable for KS3/4. This lesson covers a variety of issues, including cyber-bullying, social media safety, online-scams, data theft and privacy, image sharing and fraud. Students will explore the best safety tips to use as well as why they need to use them, with real and genuine online dangers explained in context. This lesson is taken from the new 2026 EC Publishing Complete PSHE Package, found at the EC Publishing website. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk. This contains all the new DfE RSHE 2026 topics - AI deepfakes, sextortion, chatbots, brain development, coercive control, incels, vaping, online misogyny, harmful behaviour online, parenting, pregnancy and so much more. This is all new content and all editable. The lesson will last you an hour and is scaffolded, easy to use and engaging. There is a lesson plan included. There is a detailed and colourful PowerPoint, clip tasks with questions and answers, information pack, worksheets, literacy tasks, class group tasks, signposting to further help agencies and charities, clear outcomes and also partnered activities. Includes optional assessment sheet. It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow. 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, The Bank of England, The British Legion, 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. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You may also like our: COMPLETE KS3 PSHE PACKAGE COMPETE KS4 PSHE PACKAGE COMPLETE KS5 PSHE PACKAGE COMPLETE RE KS3 PACKAGE ONE YEAR OF KS3 CITIZENSHIP AQA CITIZENSHIP MEGA BUNDLE All of which can also be found at discounted rates on the EC Publishing Ltd website (with a quick Google). For any queries or school invoice orders contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk 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 10,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

(For Topic 2:Healthy living and Lifestyle or the new GCSE, please check this resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13083926) In this resource file: You will find teaching materials for Theme 2- Unit 6 (AQA-2016) : Social issues (Les problèmes sociaux) The PPT (approx. 80 slides including answer slides) covers the whole Unit and is composed of 3 parts: ’ charity and voluntary work’, ‘healthy and unhealthy living’ and ‘old and new health habits’ It includes: -Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing and Translations activities (3 of each minimum) -Grammar points and practice: en + present participle, revision of the present tense for regular and irregular verbs, revision of the perfect tense with avoir and être, revision of the imperfect tense, an introduction to the difference between the perfect and imperfect. -Homework tasks -a link to an online vocab learning course+ (a paper version of the vocab list) -a vocab test linked to the course -QR codes at the bottom of worksheet for extra independent study -Tips, reminders and strategies to support students -Comments under the slides for advice and worksheets location -A full revision session on ailments (should you wish to revise this aspect at the start of the section: healthy and unhealthy living)- This can also be found for free here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ailments-revision-lesson-gcse-french-12288013] All worksheets and answers are provided in.pdf and editable formats Activities are differentiated and exam- style After downloading, save the .zip file (Unit6) in the “my documents” area of your computer, then right-click and extract all to access all the resources Please note: the first 12 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder If you have any questions or if you are interested in more resources like this one, you can check this Facebook page: @frenchresources, where updates, links and freebies are posted regularly.

UPDATED FOR 2024/2025 - AQA GCSE Sociology - Lesson for Chapter 1 - The Sociological Approach. Lesson 5 - Social Issues

7 pages of reading and writing activities including GCSE-style tasks to practise the vocabulary for this topic. The vocabulary list and answer sheet make this activity pack ideal for independent work, homework, revision, consolidation or for cover lessons.

Social Issue Unit of Work Created for year 11 general English Australian focus, however in preparation for the assignment we reviewed the death penalty in countries around the world. 3-4 week unit depending on ability Students were assessed on creating an ICT presentation on an Australian social issue of their choice.

year 9 and year 10

Matching the AQA specification on Social issues a full lesson with interactive games to engage lessons and a listening activity. Suitable for Higher tier but could be adapted.

This activity can take a whole lesson and generate some brilliant discussion. you can use the resource for the following: Starter - spot the difference (see whats been changed) discuss why it might have been altered. Main - discuss the questions write first draft -discuss how to improve - introduce appropriate connectives rewrite using connectives. Plenary - discuss how they improved their answers

A higher level GCSE Italian lesson on the topic of the homeless. Includes a PPT and word document with vocab test/ new vocab a reading text, questions, translation and speaking exercises. Also suitable for A level students.

Spanish Social Issues Quiz for KS3 or KS4 Students. An editable Spanish resource on a PPT for either an online lesson or a classroom based lesson for teams or individuals. This quiz includes 5 rounds including: multiple choice, a picture round, a word round, odd one out and fill in the blanks. Over 30 questions related to social issues. (Covers a variety of topics within the theme such as poverty and homeless people). Includes a student answer sheet and an answer key on the final slide of the PPT so students can self mark.

Italian Social Issues Quiz for KS3 or KS4 Students. An editable Italian resource on a PPT for either an online lesson or a classroom based lesson for teams or individuals. This quiz includes 5 rounds including: multiple choice, a picture round, a word round, odd one out and fill in the blanks. Over 30 questions related to social issues. (Covers a variety of topics within the theme such as poverty and homeless people). Includes a student answer sheet and an answer key on the final slide of the PPT so students can self mark.

Original resource, easily adaptable to any topic. Each student chooses/highlights their own individual answer and hides them from each other! Then, student A starts by reading out the text with the answers that they think their partner has chosen. If correct, student A can continue reading and guessing but if an answer is guessed incorrectly, they have to go right back to the beginning and start again until they reach the end. Then swap! You can also play teacher vs. class.

A 3-page French resource focusing on speaking about the topic of social issues’. On each slide there is a different photo with four random questions about the topic (eg. “Quelle est votre opinion sur la guerre?”), and prompts for students. This resource will not only help students to develop their knowledge of French, but rather on the general topic. Level: Advanced Tenses used: Present Tense Skills developed: Speaking

Podcast covering social issues that are traditionally covered on GCSE or AS level ICT papers

Two interactive self-marking html activities practising vocab relating to social issues. Each activity has twenty words embedded into it but reveals only a random selection of ten each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW. If working with a class in a computer suite, they can all open the files but each student will get a slightly different activity.