A starter activity allowing pupils to reflect on different views about the meaning of life and form their own opinion.

This resource contains a card sort with text and pictures giving four arguments ‘for’ the Design Argument and four arguments ‘against’. There are accompanying teacher notes with detailed explanations of 8 exciting activities to be used in conjunction with the card sort. These activities vary in length and cater for different learning styles and abilities.

This activity is based on the fictional ‘Greenridge Research Centre’ - which tests drugs on Beagle dogs with the hope of finding cures to serious diseases. Included in the download are character profiles of 8 characters who have an opinion on whether this centre should be closed down or remain open. There are four views on each side of the argument, including two different Christian perspectives. The Teacher Notes give a detailed description of 2 class activities that can be used in conjunction with these character profiles to get students thinking about the pros and cons of vivisection and animal rights. There is also a set of extension questions which challenge students to think about the ethical and philosophical issues vivisection raises. Also included in this download are two worksheets to be used in connection with the two activities which will support and scaffold the learning.

This is a great resource to get your students using all their senses to imagine what life was like in the time of Jesus. Suitable for KS3 and some KS2 children, this forms an introduction to looking at the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and provides excellent cross curricular links. Included in this download are 5 information sheets about different aspects of 1st century life, each one focusing on a sense. There are simple explanations and pictures on each info sheet. There are a number of ways these could be used, but the suggestion is to give each group or pair a particular sense which they read and become the ‘expert’ on. Then the info sheets can be taken away and each group can teach another group what they have found out. The Senses Wheel worksheet will allow students to record their findings. The similarities and differences worksheet can be used as a follow on activity and prompts students to think about how their lives are similar or different to life in the first century. Finally there is a scaffolded worksheet which helps students to write a diary entry as if they were a boy or girl living in Jesus’ time. They can use their completed Senses Wheel to give them ideas for this.

An activity sheet giving pupils a number of tasks and activities to complete based on the Christmas story.

A worksheet that gets pupils thinking about the Christian tradition of giving something up during Lent.

A starter activity allowing pupils to think about some words they would use to describe Jesus.

These profiles could be used to help pupils write a diary entry as if they were one of these characters.

A lesson getting pupils to research Good Friday using the internet and present their findings on a power point document.

A worksheet that can be used as a starter activity after the Easter Holidays getting pupils to talk about what they did during the holidays

Pupils sort miracle stories from the Bible into Nature Miracles, Healing Miracles and Raising to Life Miracles.

A short activity allowing pupils to match ideas to three differing beliefs about how the world began.

A simple matching activity looking at the Big Bang theory, Cosmological Argument, Design Argument and the theory of evolution.

A simple activity getting pupils to think about causation. This could form the basis of a discussion about the Cosmological Argument.

A simple starter activity allowing pupils to give their opinion on whether certain events are luck, coincidence, miracle or something else. Could for the basis for a discussion on what miracles are and whether they happen today.

This tutor resource contains a powerpoint presentation which helps students look at 5 key values - kindness, respect, compassion, honesty and perseverance. Students are encouraged to think about the definitions of each of these values and using the printable ‘Values Reflection’ can think about specific examples of these values in their life and the life of others. The powerpoint touches on the life of Mother Teresa and asks the students to think about what values she showed. There is a follow-up activity on the final slide which can be completed in the next tutor time. This encourages students to think about specific examples of how they have shown values in the week and where they have noticed them in others.

This Powerpoint file contains twelve ideas to help you incorporate literacy into your RE lessons. These range from quick activities that can be used as starters or plenaries, to activities that could be embedded into the main part of a lesson. These can all be adapted to different topics and they are relevant to both KS3 and GCSE Religious Education.

This predictions sheet can be used in connection with a picture of any Bible story or other event. Pupils are shown the picture and they fill in the worksheet predicting what the picture shows and what could be happening.

A card sort allowing pupils to order the events in the Old Testament story of Joseph.

A card sort with a number of different names of Allah.