Updated for 2025 specification
Lesson includes:
Re-cap of ethical guidelines (PPT and handout)
Definition of social sensitivity and application to research task (PPT and handout)
Consequences of socially sensitive research (PPT and handout)
Factors to consider when conducting socially sensitive research (PPT and handout)
Application of knowledge to Cyril Burt and Bowlby (PPT and handout)
Evaluation of socially sensitive research (handout)
Exam questions and mark schemes (PPT)
Pearson BTEC AAQ in Health & Social Care Unit 5 Promoting Health Education
Learning Aim B; B1 and B2
This unit is completely resourced in individual packages also on TES.
This package has 270-slide presentation with pause points and lots of teacher guidance in the Ppt notes, to support teachers that are out-of-subject. Included is also a 74-page student booklet with activities to engage and to guided note taking for the applied learning to PSAB Task 1
There are accompanying additional information and all resources are editable to suit your teaching style and cohort need.
The content covered is:
Learning aim B: Explore key issues and priorities for health and the factors
that affect health and wellbeing
B1 Health issues and priorities
B2 Factors affecting health and wellbeing
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This Learning Pack includes resources, activities and assessments which cover the topic of Zimbardo’s prison experiment, as well as covering the topic on issues in Social Influences.
This can be used as the main learning resource within lessons, or as an independent resource book, which enables the use of ‘flipped learning’
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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