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

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.

Essay model answer, relevant to both Edexcel A Level and Edexcel International A Level Psychology specifications

Resources for ESL/ EAL GCSE about social issues. Includes a PPT and accompanying student worksheet with word/definition matching, speaking activities, reading comprehensions, a photo card with questions and a writing exercise.

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.

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

Spanish - Social Global Issues Escape Room Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive ‘Arctic Expedition themed Escape room’ experience. Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term. There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction. The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more… Spanish - Social Global Issues Escape Quiz Escape Room is fully editable and takes less than 1 Minute to set up. Spanish - Social Global Issues Escape Quiz Arctic Expedition Escape Room Contents ☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge ☞ Optional Escape Certificates ☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead) Common FAQ’s ★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180) ★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!) ★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil. How to run this escape challenge This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice. The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections. Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation. Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle. Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish. Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes. Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully (Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.

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.

A couple of resources to introduce and practise key vocabulary, phrases & structures on the topic of environment and to introduce some key vocabulary linked to the social issues topic.

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.

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.