Complete unit of work covering the relationships and families topic as part of the AQA Religious Studies GCSE, though may also be appropriate for other exam boards. This resource includes at least 8 hours of teaching time, covering the nature and purpose of families; marriage; divorce and remarriage; attitudes towards sex, including sex before and outside of marriage; cohabitation; contraception; homosexuality / same-sex relationships, parents and marriage; gender roles and equality; and revision resources. There are a range of activities, lesson powerpoints and worksheets to keep students engaged and lessons varied. All content is covered from Christianity and Islam, inclusive of lots of religious teachings and examples, as well as non-religious ideas. The whole unit is complete and ready to teach with easy to follow lessons. Please leave a review, and happy teaching!

This 5 week unit of work enables the children to explore the idea about trying to transform the world. It explores what a better world would be like while gathering ideas about some of the problems it has. The following objectives are covered over the 6 weeks: Make sense of belief: • Explain connections between biblical texts and the concept of the kingdom of God • Consider different possible meanings for the biblical texts studied, showing awareness of different interpretations Understand the impact: • Make clear connections between belief in the kingdom of God and how Christians put their beliefs into practice • Show how Christians put their beliefs into practice in different ways Make connections: • Relate the Christian ‘kingdom of God’ model (i.e. loving others, serving the needy) to issues, problems and opportunities in the world today • Articulate their own responses to the idea of the importance of love and service in the world today. All resources are listed here and are referenced in the lesson plans. A great unit that provokes some thoughtful and philosophical discussions. Please note: this unit of work could easily be extended to 6 weeks as there are opportunities for the children to present and share their work with their peers.

Complete unit of work covering theme E of AQA Religious Studies GCSE - crime and punishment. May also be relevant for other exam boards. This is a complete unit of work, inclusive of 7 PowerPoint lessons, resources including worksheets, videos, a revision map, unit checklist and practice questions. These lessons cover: good and evil; crime and the reasons for crime; attitudes towards lawbreakers; different types of crime, including hate crimes, theft and murder; aims of punishment, including retribution, reformation, deterrence and protection; treatment of criminals, including prison, corporal punishment and community service; forgiveness; and the death penalty. All content is covered from Chrsitianity and Islam, inclusive of lots of religious teachings and examples. The whole unit is complete and ready to teach with easy to follow lessons. Please leave a review and happy teaching!

2 hour, fully resourced lesson which focuses on capital punishment, its legal status around the world, the moral and religious arguments for and against and the history of the death penalty. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHCE or Religious Education as an introduction to the topic, or could be used as a standalone lesson as something different for a drop-down-day. This lesson gained an outstanding when it was observed. Find more lessons on everything from misogyny, masculinity, Incels and Andrew Tate to dating, love, health and wellbeing, extremism, pornography, gender and transgender prejudice, racism, sex and relationships and much more at our store. Please visit my Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk The pack includes a 2 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

A set of knowledge organisers for A-Level Religious Studies. They have been designed for the OCR specification but are likely appropriate for other exam boards too. The knowledge organisers cover the whole OCR ethics specification: Natural Law Kantian Ethics Situation Ethics Utilitarianism Business Ethics Euthanasia Sexual Ethics Conscience Meta-Ethics They cover the AO1 content needed, such as the difference between act and rule utilitarianism; the formulas of the Categorical Imperative; the primary precepts; the six propositions; how to apply the theories to homosexuality; theological vs. psychological views on the conscience, and much more! They each cover every part on the content section of the specification in a good level of detail. A great revision tool for students about to approach exams or to consolidate knowledge of a unit. These would make brilliant posters and also work very well on a phone screen to share with students! If you like these, please leave a review and happy teaching!

A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated 2 hour lesson which serves as an introduction to Ethics. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE or philosophy unit and focuses on philosophers, theories and fallacies. This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning and contains match up tasks, clip tasks, literacy and debate tasks, information sheets and more, as well as an engaging 2 hour PowerPoint. It is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task and very easy to follow. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: RE lessons and units Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated lesson which serves as an introduction to religious attitudes towards euthanasia. Includes worksheets, source tasks, PowerPoint, match up tasks, information sheet and more. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE unit and has been created for the EC Publishing Year 9 RE Package. Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning and contains match up tasks, clip tasks, literacy and debate tasks, information sheets and more, as well as an engaging 1 hour PowerPoint. It is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task and very easy to follow. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are top TES RE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here: RE lessons and units Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 1100 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

Complete unit of work covering the relationships and families topic as part of the AQA Religious Studies GCSE, though may also be appropriate for other exam boards. This resource includes at least 9 hours of teaching time, covering peace, justice forgiveness and reconciliation; violence, including protests; terrorism; reasons for war; just war theory; holy war; pacifism; religion as a cause of violence and war; nuclear weapons; weapons of mass destrcution; peacemakers in the modern world; religious responses to victims of war; and revision resources, including a full set of past paper and practice questions. There are a range of activities, lesson powerpoints and worksheets to keep students engaged and lessons varied. All content is covered from Christianity and Islam, inclusive of lots of religious teachings and examples, as well as non-religious ideas. The whole unit is complete and ready to teach with easy to follow lessons. Please leave a review, and happy teaching!

1 hour, fully resourced lesson which provides an overview and introduction to Humanism as an alternative movement and worldview. It explores what it means to be a humanist, why religiosity is in decline in the UK and how humanists believe their worldview can benefit humanity. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for RE or Citizenship, or could be used as a standalone lesson as something different for a drop-down-day. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. The pack includes a 1 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE RE RESOURCES

Firstly, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the more than 1000 of you who have downloaded this display pack! I hope your classrooms look gorgeous! This is a complete 200+ page pack of a number of classroom displays that I have developed over the last couple of years to invigorate my department. Two updated booster packs have already been added. Original Display Pack: - Philosophers and Religious Figures Timeline (Over 40 thinkers with pictures, dates and outlines of their thinking). - Famous quote callouts to add along the timeline (one for almost every philosopher). Get students talking! - Custom-made colourful lettering for timeline eras. - Over 20 ethical and philosophical questions in colourful speech bubbles to inspire thinkers in your classroom (A great one for open-evenings or tutor time discussions!) - Steps/Levels display with optional number arrows. Department levels policy documents included. - ‘How to’ guides for all displays. Booster Pack 1: - Philosophical Language Literacy Display with sentence starters for knowledge/explanation and assessment/evaluation. - Agree --> Disagree continuum signposts to make human bar charts in your classroom! - Blooms thinking guidance for teachers with question prompts. Great for shrinking and sticking on desks or displaying at the back of the room. Booster Pack 2: - A raft of additional thinkers to give greater flexibility to the Philosopher Timeline across exam boards. - Quotes for every new thinker of course! I’ve also added another high-quality display pack covering Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/logical-fallacies-and-cognitive-biases-display-pack-philosophy-psychology-11925635

Religion and Life Theme - AQA RS GCSE - Scheme of lessons covering the whole unit of work! This resource includes at least 8 lessons (though will likely be more teaching hours!) covering the whole specification for AQA Religion and Life, including origins of the universe, the value of the world, including human duty, use and abuse of both the environment and animals, the origins of human life, and issues such as euthanasia and abortion, and life after death. There are PowerPoints for each lesson plus a wide range of other resources, such as worksheets, revision maps and practice questions. There are also a range of tasks and video links. This is appropriate and accessible for all students, supporting students to stretch to a grade 9 but also to access the topics in a clear and understandable way. The whole unit is ready to teach! Please rate and comment if you like the resource or have any questions. Thank you!

This extensive revision PPT revises the whole of OCR A Level Philosophy, helpfully summarising each topic into one revision grid. After each unit, ten sample questions (based on the language of the spec) are there to focus revision and prepare for possible exam questions on the topic. Topics include: Ancient Philosophical Influences Soul, Mind and Body Arguments from Observation Arguments from Reason Religious experience Problem of Evil Nature of God Religious Language 20th Century Perspectives Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. 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!

This is a complete unit of work that meets the specification of Eduqas’s A-level RS - Component 3 - Ethics - Theme 3def - Utilitarianism. This resource includes 11 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons). It was designed for Year 12 in my school and to be taught as the sixth topic in the ethics component (after divine command theory, virtue theory, ethical egoism, natural law and situation ethics) MINIMAL PRINTING It includes: A tracker for the whole of the Y12 content (Theme 1abc, Theme 2abc, Theme 3abcdef) Bentham’s Utilitarianism lesson Hedonic Calculus lesson JS Mill Development lesson Writing a 20MQ lesson Strengths and weaknesses of Utilitarianism lesson DIRT on 20MQ lesson Issues for analysis and evaluation lesson with worksheet Writing a 30MQ lesson DIRT on 30MQ lesson Application of Utilitarianism to animal experimentation for medical research Application of Utilitarianism to the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent 20MQ and 30MQ marking stickers (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm) All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’. This is complete and ready to teach! Hopefully this will save you time and energy :) Please leave a review!

A fully resourced KS3 pack of lessons including engaging activities and student self evaluation assessment. 8 lessons total. Easily amendable accompanying worksheets, clips with a large variety of tasks. 1.) Why did the Buddha leave the palace? 2.) What is ‘enlightenment’? 3.) What are the 5 precepts? 4.) How does a Buddhist monk live? 5.) What is the 8fold path? 6.) Who is Thich Quang Duc and what are the 3 poisons? 7.) Revision lesson 8.) What are the 3 marks of existence? + Self evaluation assessment

This resource includes a complete unit of work for the Soul, Mind and Body unit of the OCR A-level Religious Studies, though could be adapted for other exam boards. Included are a whole unit of PowerPoint slides covering the whole spec, a workbook which matches the slides, a revision activity of a unit overview map, two exemplar essays and a set of links to further resources/revision notes. Covered in this unit of work are Plato and Aristotle’s beliefs on the soul, including discussion of whether the soul is immortal; an introduction to the mind body problem, e.g. the Ship of Theseus; Descartes’ substance dualism; property dualism; hard materialists, such as Skinner and Dawkins, with criticism from Dennett; soft materialism, including Hick; and Ryle’s category error. A complete unit of work all ready to go! Hope you enjoy and happy teaching :)

Here are all of my essay plans for the Ethics paper of the 2018 OCR Religious Studies exam. I have structured the plans as follows: First I’ve made Line of Argument (LOA) Tables which outline my response to the four main key questions of the topic, listed on the exam mark scheme on the website. The exam questions they have asked and put in text books are based around these four questions so if you have a pre-prepared essay plan for them (which you can adapt) you’re pretty much sorted. I structure my response by listing two lines of argument I will reject (forming the first two paragraphs) and then the loa I accept (forming the last paragraph). After the table I have the individual plans for each question (and other similar questions I have found from various resources). I outline an intro and then fill out three paragraphs/ sections. P1 and P2 are structured with an argument (one I reject), a counter argument, a rebuttal, and finally a counter rebuttal. P3 is structured with an argument (my accepted argument) a counter argument and a rebuttal (ending on my argument). I then outline a conclusion. Each plan is colour co-ordinated and includes loads of relevant scholars, with their points/ quotes condensed into one to two lines so you can write everything down in time/ learn the plans easily. These essay plans cover almostt EVERYTHING you need for an A star. They took me two years to perfect. I learnt them off by heart and achieved A*. PLEASE NOTE I only did one plan for Kant as I predicted it wouldn’t come up on my years exam

A complete unit of work all ready to go! This resource includes a complete unit of work for the Nature of God unit of the Philosophy section of OCR A-level Religious Studies (A2), though could be adapted for other exam boards. Included are a whole unit of PowerPoint slides covering the whole spec, a workbook which matches the slides, two exemplar essays, a bunch of worksheets/extra resources and some exemplar filled in tables considering the clashes and compliments between different attributes. There are a great range of discussion points and various activities to keep students engaged. I usually take about twelve teaching hours to complete this unit of work. Covered in this unit of work are various interpretations of omnipotence (including Descartes, Aquinas and Augustine); interpretations of omniscience; whether God is eternal or everlasting (including Boethius, Anselm and Swinburne); how far free will is affected; interpretations of benevolence, including whether the existence of Hell is compatible with God’s attributes; and how far the contradictions between attributes can be resolved. A complete unit of work all ready to go! Hope you enjoy and happy teaching :)

I , Julie Claydon, put together two powerpoints which I downloaded from the TES recently. The pp contains many film clips from Youtube and was used over two lessons as an aid to get my students talking to each other and to the class. It worked a treat! Many thanks to the original makers of the powerpoints.