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.
Introduce students to A Level Sociology with this engaging and interactive Introduction / Taster Lesson.
Perfect as a first lesson, transition activity, induction session or introduction to the subject, this resource introduces students to key sociological concepts while developing discussion, analytical thinking and early exam skills.
Students explore how sociologists explain behaviour and begin to understand the expectations of studying Sociology at A Level.
Part 1: Introducing Sociology
Lesson objectives:
• Know the meaning of the key terms: culture, norms, values, socialisation, status and role
• Understand the importance of culture and socialisation in explaining human behaviour
Part 2: Developing Sociology Skills
Lesson objectives:
• Understand Sociology assessment objectives
• Develop confidence using the P.E.E.L structure in Sociology responses
What’s included:
• Easy to deliver PowerPoint presentation with helpful teaching tips in the notes
• Student friendly activities and discussion opportunities
• Worksheets formatted and ready to print
• Stretch and challenge activities included
• Focus on literacy and key sociological concepts
• Strong links to exam skills and assessment criteria
• High-level questioning and opportunities for written application
Resources are made for the AQA A Level Sociology specification, but may be tailored for use with other exam boards.
Textbook page numbers and references are made to AQA A Level Sociology Book One and AQA A Level Sociology Book Two.
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A Level sociology taster session for year 12.
Introductory powerpoint on A Level Sociology including activities for students to complete.
Overview of course content
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
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
Topic: Theory & Methods
Specification link: the nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific
Focus: Sociology and Science
What’s included:
• 1 × fully editable lesson PowerPoint
• 1 × student work booklet with an exam work section
• 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 Theory & Methods 2, this resource pack covers Sociology and Science including key concepts and how this links back to topics studied during A level sociology. Please note that due to the synoptic links, this lesson has been designed to be taught at the end of the course. It also contains some pre-reading activities and tasks which students are expected to complete prior to the lesson (although this is optional).
The pack includes one lesson PowerPoint, designed for 60–90 minutes of teaching time depending on the number of activities selected. It 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, which has a exam section included.
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.
A bundle of games to revise ‘Education’ for AQA A-level Sociology. These are based on popular board games and UK TV shows, and allow students to solidify their sociological understanding in a fun, interactive and memorable way.
Each game includes a lesson powerpoint, full written instructions for gameplay, and printable resources.
Perspectives on Education - 'Connect 4’
Play a game of Connect 4 to recall and expain sociological perspectives on the function of education
Class, Gender and Ethnicity - 'Snakes and Ladders’
Play a game of Snakes and Ladders to explore factors which help and hinder educational achievement across class, gender and ethnicity
Pupil Identities - 'Guess Who’
Ask sociological ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions to determine which pupil subculture or identity has been selected by your opponent
Education Policies - 'Snap’
Play the popular card game to match education policies with impacts across different educational contexts
Methods in Context - 'Blockbusters’
Make an unbroken line across the board by explaining how different research methods can be used to study issues in education
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.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2020) - strictly not for redistribution.
This is a document containing accurate predictions for what might be the 2026 AQA A-level Sociology questions
It includes:
Every past paper question
Each of my predictions for paper 1
Each of my predictions for paper 2 (families and beliefs)
My predictions for each Crime and Deviance question
Each prediction was informed by an AQA examiner and in light of questions from recent years.
Topic: Education
Specification link: the significance of educational policies, including policies of selection, marketisation and privatisation, and policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome, for an understanding of the structure, role, impact and experience of and access to education; the impact of globalisation on educational policy
Focus: Privitisation and Globalisation
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 1: Education, this resource pack covers Privitisation and Globalisation. It’s ideal for teaching the section on the significance of educational policies, including policies of selection, marketisation and privatisation, and policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome, for an understanding of the structure, role, impact and experience of and access to education; the impact of globalisation on educational policy. 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
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 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 bundle of games to revise ‘Families and Households’ for AQA A-level Sociology. These are based on popular board games and UK TV shows, and allow students to solidify their sociological understanding in a fun, interactive and memorable way.
**Sociological Perspectives on the Family - ‘First Dates’ **
Students become a perspective and “date” others to test compatibility on family issues
Family Diversity - 'Taboo’
Students take it in terms to use sociological reasoning to describe a key term on their card
Demographics and Family Patterns - 'Family Fortunes’
Students compete in two teams to answer questions about patterns and trends
Couples and Family Roles - 'Married at First Sight’
Negotiate and make decisions as a couple in different family scenarios - will your marriage survive?
Childhood - 'The Million Pound Drop’
Compete to wager money and answer questions on childhood – how much of your £1 million will you have left at the end?
Policies - 'Draughts’
Play a game of draughts, where every move is “earned” by applying a social policy to the family
Description allows students to recap the key terms and sociologists covered in the education unit and apply this to exam questions. Goes through the different types of 4 marker (excluding research methods 4 markers) students can be asked.
ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES
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
Topic: Crime & Deviance
Specification link: globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes
Focus: State Crime
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 3: Crime and Deviance, this resource pack covers State Crime. It’s ideal for teaching the specification section on globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes. 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
A work booklet with a range of revision questions covering aspects of the topic of education including: hidden curriculum, setting and streaming, types of school, labelling and self fulfilling prophecies.
Suitable for AQA GCSE or any A Level.
Introduction to Sociology – Key details and Taster activities (AQA A Level)
A ready-to-teach introductory lesson designed to give students a confident and engaging start to AQA A-level Sociology.
This resource includes a clear, visually structured PowerPoint alongside a student booklet, guiding learners through the key details for the AQA specification including information about the assessment objectives and the exam.
Perfect for the first lesson of the year, transition from GCSE, or a sociology taster session, this resource starts to build essential subject knowledge while introducing the analytical thinking required at A level.
What’s included:
✔ Fully editable PowerPoint detailing key details for studying AQA A level Sociology
✔ Student booklet to accompany the PowerPoint (useful for a course reference guide)
✔ An overview of the assessment objectives
Resource features:
• Clear explanations using accessible language for new A-level students
• Key details relating to the specification and exam highlighted throughout
• An introduction to sociology activity to encourage discussion and critical thinking