Complete set of presentations for the first unit, tried and tested with real classes. No textbook needed. Includes worksheets and end of unit assessment. Mini-whiteboards would be ideal and access to ICT is required for a couple of lessons - one laptop/computer between two students. Created inline with AQA's recommended scheme of work.
This taster lesson is designed to introduce prospective students to sociology. It covers what the subject of sociology is, what the A level exam entails and the types of topics that are studied. It includes some ‘lesson samples slides’ which are mini tasks taken from typical A level lessons. It also includes a ‘build a society’ task which allows students to begin to explore the different perspectives.
This is a lesson I use as an introduction to the AQA A-level Sociology course and to the sociological imagination or line of inquiry. The lesson includes:
an overview of the course, exam and curriculum
activities to introduce students to Sociology and sociological thinking/ inquiry.
suggested reading, podcasts, revision websites youtube channels that students can use to develop their knowledge and understanding of key ideas and concepts.
Expectations
Can be easily edited to meet your needs, e.g. specification, expectations and can also be used as an introduction to AQA GCSE Sociology .
A lesson introducing students to the role of the Media, as part of ‘Crime and Deviance’ for A-level Year 13 students on the AQA Specification
Activities include:
Fact vs. fiction - stereotypes of villains, victims and police
Imagine you are a journalist - what is newsworthy?
News Values - application to modern case studies
Case Study - James Bulger and the role of the media
Deviancy Amplification Spiral - modern examples
Fear of crime - statistics vs. media
Evaluation web
Exam questions
Model paragraph
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This bundle contains a complete series of workbooks made for GCSE Sociology students. It includes the four new workbooks made for each of the four main sections of the course (Family, Education, Crime & Deviance, and Social Stratification) and, as a bonus resource, my very popular Research Methods workbook.
The workbooks were designed for the AQA specification and adapted for the WJEC/EDUQAS specification (two versions of each workbook are included in this resource pack).
Each of the four main workbooks contains the following:
Student Progress-Check Tasks
A Personal Learning Checklist
Activity 1 - Mind-Map Overview Task
Activity 2 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 3 - Key-Work Match & Listing Tasks
Activity 4 - Online Research Tasks
Activity 5 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 6 - Bare-bones Essay Planning Task
Activity 7 - Creative Tasks (Posters & Poetry)
Activity 8 - Investigate & Report (Newspaper Article Task)
Activity 9 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 10 - Essay-Planning Activity
Activity 11- Essay Assessment
Extension Tasks (Many!)
Each contains 25+ sides of activities and is designed to be printed as a double-sided workbook. The files are in editable Word (.doc) format in-case you wish to make any amendments (e.g. changing the exam questions).
The workbooks are not designed to be a comprehensive: they each include selected readings and cover some (not all) of the topics listed in the specification.
UPDATE: This bundle has now been enhanced with four additional workbooks: these ‘video-learning workbooks’ help students to learn from online video resources more effectively.
If you are happy with your purchase and leave a review and rating for this TES bundle, please email me ( godwin86@gmail.com ) and I will send you a FREE ‘Revision Strategy Battle Planner’ which will be useful for your Year 11 students.
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This bundle contains 20 lessons for the ‘Sociology of the Family’ section of the new GCSE Sociology specification.
Whilst it is useful to any teacher of Sociology, it was designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192) taught from September 2017.
It is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive and complete resource: everything a teacher/department need to teach the sociology of families section of the course.
Each lesson comes in a .Zip file, This file contains:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality, editable, PowerPoint Presentation
-Homework
[-Most of the lessons include a worksheet
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A thorough and comprehensive revision booklet for the education section of the paper 1 exam, which covers all content they need to know. It includes information for students, and 7 activities ranging from crosswords to essay planning. Last year I published booklets which only included the advanced info, so I have updated them this year to include everything! They worked really well last year to make sure that students were revising early on, and I’m sure they will be as succesful this year too.
I will be using this in lessons with students- instructions on how I plan to do this are in the booklet.
May need the latest version of word or you might need to play around with the formatting. I’ve also uploaded as a pdf to avoid any trouble.
I really hope this is useful to you!
This is a large pack of resources for learning and revision of the “Families” section of AQA Sociology GCSE. The pack includes:
The Functionalist Perspective
The Marxist Perspective
The Feminist Perspective
Different Families
Rapoport & Rapoport
Conjugal Role Relationships
Changing Families
Changing Households
Wider Family Relationships
Marriage and Divorce
Theories of Divorce
Criticisms of Families
Is the Nuclear Family Still Important?
Knowledge Organisers
Practice Exam Questions
A lesson introducing students to the connection between globalisation and crime, as part of ‘Crime and Deviance’ for A-level Year 13 students on the AQA Specification
Activities include:
Define features of globalisation
Explain cause and effect - globalisation and crime
Groupwork - news bulletin and handout - globalisation and ‘new’ crimes
Comparison table
Policing global crime - help and hinder scales
Evaluation web
Exam questions
Model paragraph
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This is the entire unit for the beliefs in society topic in A level sociology. This includes topics on:
Theories of beliefs
Ideology, science and nationalism
Social change
Religious organisations, movements and members
Religion and globalisation
Secularisation
Alternatives to secularisation
Features of the lesson includes (Not included for all lessons):
Exam practice
MWB match up
Video tasks
Explain why task
Application task
Essay plan task
A Level Sociology Research Methods: Interviews
This is a full lesson resource for A Level Sociology Research Methods in Interviews, and it covers everything needed for students to know in the AQA Sociology specification. This consists of 52 slides with a range over content and activities which include:
Activities to limit student writing time, but still effective in understanding the different types of interviews used by sociologists
The practical, ethical and theoretical issues of structured and unstructured interviews
The strength and limitations of interviews
Sociological case studies on interviews for student application
Interpretivists and Positivists viewpoints on interviews
Exam practice including the breakdown of how students should be expected to answer it
Methods in context for interviews
10 and 20 mark methods in context exam practice
This is a great resource for both specialist and non-specialist teachers to get a head start in teaching research methods interviews effectively to students. I have been using this for a number of years and recieved excellent results every time.
This is a large pack of resources for learning and revision of the “Education” section of AQA Sociology GCSE. The pack includes:
Functions of Education
Education & Capitalism
Feminist Perspective
Types of Schools
Independent vs State Education
Alternative Education
External Factors on Educational Achievement
Education Policies
Processes Within Schools
Social Class & Education
Social Class & Education - Explanations
Gender & Educational Achievement
Gender & Education - Explanations
Perspectives on School Processes
Ethnicity & Educational Achievement
Ethnicity & Education - Explanations
Practice exam questions
Knowledge organisers
Complete set of presentations for the second unit. All have been tried and tested with real classes. Mini-whiteboards would be ideal alongside student workbooks. Created to fit with with AQA’s recommended scheme of work.
Walking Talking Mocks: guided by the teacher. This activity is aimed at year 10/11 breaking down 2, 4 and 12 mark questions to explicitly teach how to answer these exam questions.
Revision booklet for students to fill in and condense their knowledge of this topic. Previously my students have loved these as it has all of their knowledge in one place, and they can create their own revision guides.
For the AQA GCSE Sociology Specification
This resource is approx 2-3 hours of teaching time. It includes both green crime and state crime. Based on a wealth of sources.
This lesson includes;
Recap questions
Summary task
Exam practice
Extended writing task
Application task
Video tasks
This is a GCSE sociology lesson [Eduqas, WJEC]. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and the power point consists of a total of 12 slides. This lesson focuses on changes in conjugal roles. By the end of the lesson students will be able to outline the main changes to conjugal roles, examine whether roles within the family are changing and refer to key studies such as Willmott and Young- Symmetrical family.
Included:
-starter activity encourages students to think about what roles are predominately completed by men and women in the household.
-explanation of what conjugal roles are. Referring to segregated and integrated conjugal roles.
-images from the good housekeeping guide, students to think about how women are portrayed in these images. Discussion task.
-two video clips, a guide to how women to behave/ act. Students to list all the ways women should behave according to the clips.
-explanation of the traditional domestic division of labour and how things are starting to change.
-worksheet activity. Students to tick which tasks are completed by the males and females in their household. Challenge questions included.
-explanation of the symmetrical family as explained by Willmott and Young.
-explanation of the new man. Students to think about whether they think this is true. Encourage them to think about celebrity examples.
-Willmott and Young reading. Worksheet provided. Questions for students to answer on the power point.
-Evaluation- referring to feminism (Oakley)
-plenary- how far do students think that families have become more symmetrical.
The Complete Media Bundle for A Level Sociology offers a full, engaging, and exam-focused set of resources covering every topic required by the specification. It enables students to master the sociological study of the media through in-depth PDF summaries, visually dynamic PowerPoint presentations, and a range of skills-based and assessment-focused materials. Core content areas include: Media Ownership and Control, The New Media, Globalisation and the Media, Media Representations (of class, gender, ethnicity, age, and disability), Media Content and Audiences, and Media Effects and Audience Theories.
Each topic is supported by comprehensive PowerPoint slides that break down theoretical perspectives (Marxist, Pluralist, Feminist, Postmodernist), key sociologists, and contemporary examples such as streaming services, citizen journalism, media moral panics, and the impact of digital algorithms on consumption. The bundle explores how media both reflects and shapes society, power structures, and identities, and how audiences actively interpret or resist media content.
To build exam confidence and critical writing skills, the pack includes connectives worksheets, skills-based activities (e.g. PEEL paragraph practice, media text analysis, theory-application tasks), and essay planning templates. Each major topic comes with a focused podcast episode, offering accessible summaries of key theories, debates, and sociological applications—ideal for independent revision or flipped learning. The question bank features a wide range of exam-style questions and model answers, including 10- and 20-mark essay questions such as “Evaluate the view that media owners control media content for ideological purposes” and “Assess the impact of new media on audience behaviour.” A series of interactive quizzes reinforces key terms, theorists, and concepts through fun and formative assessment.
Altogether, this full-course Media bundle equips students with the theoretical depth, real-world application, and analytical skill needed to excel in the media unit of A Level Sociology. It’s ideal for teachers delivering the course or students seeking a structured, content-rich, and engaging way to revise.
Topic: Beliefs in Society
Specification link: The significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context
Focus: Globalisation & Religion
What’s included:
• 1 × fully editable lesson PowerPoint
• 1 × student work booklet (fillable during lessons)
• 1 × completed teacher version of the work booklet
• A range of engaging tasks including stretch & challenge for differentiation
• Links to video clips and suggested discussion prompts
• Clear lesson objectives with links to the specification and exam papers
Perfect for AQA A-Level Sociology Paper 2: Beliefs in Society, this resource pack covers Globalisation & Religion. It’s ideal for teaching the section on The significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context. With a detailed PowerPoint, a student workbook, and plenty of built-in activities, this lesson is ready to deliver straight away.
The pack includes one lesson PowerPoint, designed for 60–90 minutes of teaching time depending on the number of activities selected. The lesson features a combination of teacher-led tasks, independent student activities, and video clips, along with embedded stretch and challenge opportunities to support differentiation.
The lesson is designed to run alongside a work booklet, provided in two versions:
• a student copy for learners to complete during lessons
• a completed copy for teacher reference or additional student support