Religious Studies - Crime and Punishment: Socially Distanced Unit of Work

Due to the change in the way teaching will happen in September, I have revised the GCSE Themes: Crime and Punishment (AQA - though applicable across specifications - sometimes known as ‘Good and Evil’) unit to include no sharing of resources and PowerPoint-led learning through an engaging and well-designed Work Pack. This unit explores all of the nuanced and specialist learning by adopting socially distant teaching techniques.

The PowerPoints aid a ‘plug in and play’ approach to teaching, as staff will be moving around a lot and will not be able to carry the normal resources needed for a lesson outside of a specialist curriculum area.

In addition, the Powerpoint and the Work Pack now includes all resources that the students need to access an engaging, high-quality education, whilst effectively minimising risk to health due to the current situation.

Lessons include:
L1 Authority and Religion
L2 -3 Crime, Good and Evil
L4 Aims of Punishment
L5 Prisons and Treatment of Criminals
L6 Corporal Punishment
L7 Capital Punishment
L8 Suffering and Forgiveness

Comprehensive Work Pack also included with a variety of activities, development of analysis and evaluation skills and exam practise.

Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoint itself and also in the Work Pack 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.

Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!