Attitudes to Contraception - Christianity and Islam WJEC GCSE Religious Studies 8 Marker booklet

This series of five slides is designed to be printed off and stapled together in the top left and given to students to work through in roughly an hour.

The question they will be working on is the following 8 mark WJEC Religious Education GCSE question:

Explain from Christianity and Islam attitudes to the use of contraception.

On the first page, students are given a very simple model answer an are tasked with explaining how it could be improved.

On the second and third pages, students are given indicative content that could be included and are tasked with highlighting key information from both Christianity and Islam’s viewpoints on the issue.

They are then, on the third slide, given a better model answer. They will read this and explain, given the information they now have in their heads from the previous two pages, how it could be improved.

Finally, they are given space to write their own answer to the 8 mark GCSE question without looking at any notes.

My students really liked this because it was clear and the tasks were ‘chunked’ into easy to digest pieces. There was a clear structure to the lesson which needs minimal teacher input since the instructions are clear on each page. Lined paper isn’t needed either - it’s all self-contained.

By the end of the lesson every single student had made progress and, crucially, felt better able to answer 8 mark questions under timed pressure.

Hope this helps, thanks for looking and hopefully it’ll save you some time in the hectic run up to exams! :)