Philosophy & Ethics - KS3 Unit

This is a complete unit of work introducing students to the idea of philosophy and ethical thinking. This resource includes 10 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons).It was designed for Year 9 in my school, but would be suitable for any KS3 year. There’s a range of different resources and activities to keep students engaged and encourage independent learning.

It includes:

A tracker for the whole of my Y9 schemes of learning, featuring this as the first unit
Progress map for students to highlight after each assessment in the year

L1 - What is Philosophy?
How did Plato think we can know the truth? (realm of forms and realm of appearances)
L2 - The design argument
L3 - The cosmological argument
L4 - Scientific arguments for creation
L5 - Ethics & Trolley problem
L6 - Organ donation
L7 - Animal Testing
L8 - Animal Testing Mystery (escape room/murder mystery style lesson)
L9 - Assessment
L10 - DIRT

A key skill test opportunity to provide students with feedback on the skill ‘evaluate’
A factual recall test opportunity (link to a microsoft form)
'Evaluate’ 12-mark question marking sticker templates (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
Knowledge organiser for revision for assessment
All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’ and differentiation is present in the form of sentence starters, excellence challenges and model answers.
This is complete and ready to teach! Non-specialists have used it and followed it with ease.

Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
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