KS3/4 Ethics: Contentious Issues Unit - 8 Lessons

New KS3 Contentious Issues Unit that includes PowerPoint-led learning through engaging and well-designed lesson sheets. The PowerPoints are well-planned and visusally engaging to promote maximum knowledge retrieval and evoke great interest from our learners.

The 8 lessons are a combination of beliefs, teachings and practices. If you’d like your unit to be shorter, you can ‘pick and choose’ the lessons relevant to your students.

The PowerPoints aid a ‘plug in and play’ approach to teaching, benefiting both subject specialists and non-subject specialists alike.

In addition, the Powerpoint and the lesson sheets now include all resources that the students need to access an engaging, high-quality education.

Lessons include:
L1 - What are Contentious Issues?
L2 - Reporoductive Rights
L3 - Euthanasia (Assisted Dying)
L4 - Right to Education and Healthcare
L5 - Global Inequality
L6 - Drones in War
L7 - Cultural Appropriation
L8 - Gender in Competitive Sports

Each lesson includes:

• Homework slide
• Review of prior learning (from L2 onwards)
• Title, objective and date
• Key Words
• AO1 - Knowledge and understanding
• AO2 - Analysis and evaluation task
• Plenary

Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoints themselves and also in the lesson sheets to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension. Challenges (extension tasks) also exist throughout the unit to further enhance skills and understanding.

There are a variety of knowledge, understanding and evaluation tasks throughout the unit, including video and debate activities that the students always love - year-on-year.