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These resources were created by specialist and experienced staff and lead practitioners from a Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethics department.
Please don't download and run! Review what you download and leave feedback for our development. Thanks!
Sixth lesson in a unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Link to homework and previous learning.
Literacy task on nam japna and reflection on it's application
Shared reading task on Kirat Karna and evaluate it's importance
Discussion task
Analysis of a video clip on Vand Chakna and Seva
Application of Sikh morals to moral dilemmas
Homework task.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
2nd of 3 lessons on the Teleological Argument for the new 2016 specification.
Bell work task, homework check, a-level key terms, prediction task - criticisms from Hume, Written task and discussion plenary. Gifted and Talented 'Bright Sparks tasks and AFL throughout. Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RS department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
This lesson is the third in a series of ten. It gives an overview on how Islam split into Sunni and Shiah before moving on to look at the Shiah festival of Ashura next lesson.
Recall starter - what have we learnt about Islam lower down in school?
Timeline walkaround activity to look at the most significant events in the development of Islam.
Independent work - what qualities does a good leader need?
Prediction task - what do we think happened after some of these significant events?
Body smart task - how did some of these events make people feel?
Homework on the legacy that muhammad (pbuh) left behind on his death.
AFL, Bright Sparks G&T tasks and differentiation included, along with resources for all activities.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A full unit of work, including lesson PPTs and information sheets, an assessment essay and multiple choice quiz, and simple knowledge organiser. Built around knowledge rich curriculum principles with a disciplinary question which is explored through the unit. Retrieval quizzes feature throughout to support retention of knowledge. Designed for Y7.
THE INTRO, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
Lesson 1 - Introduction to new topic (short lesson to tag on to a feedback lesson for a previous unit.
Lesson 2 - General and Specific revelation (Quran and Bible)
Lesson 3 - Rules and Guidance (Moral and Ritual Mitzvoth)
Lesson 4 - Rules and Guidance (Tripitaka and the Eightfold path)
Lesson 5 - Stories from History (Bhagavad Gita)
Lesson 6 - Stories from History (Ramayana)
Lesson 7 - Living Scriptures (Guru Granth Sahib)
Lesson 8 - Revision lesson
Lesson 9 - Assessment
Lesson 10 - Assessment feedback and introduction to the next topic
All PPTs and worksheets are in dyslexia friendly font and size, with PPTs being on pale blue background. Worksheets and wordy tasks are scaffolded with sentence starters and explicit teaching of tier 2 and 3 vocabulary.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
This lesson is the second in this series on Shia Islam and looks at the different beliefs between Shiah's and Sunni's. Students investigate the festival of Ashura and make informed opinions on why some people would agree/disagree with Ashura as a festival.
It looks at the four rightly guided caliphs and analyses the issue of Ali not being the first leader after the death of Muhammad (pbuh).
G&T tasks, Peer-assessment, AFL and homework task included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
First in a series of 10 lessons. Looks at religions practised in Britain which are not as well known.
Students are given time to set up new books etc as this is the first lesson of the year.
Students look at a number of optical illusions to highlight the fact that people can see the same thing in different ways.
Prioritising task - students have to create their own groups within the class based on shared values.
Mind--mapping task to look at things that people find important.
Personal reflection homework
Contains Bright Sparks G&T tasks throughout
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at holy books as sources of rules and guidance through the moral and ritual mitzvoth in the Torah.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Lesson PPT and a knowledge sheet for the question based tasks. Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how holy books are revealed, through general and direct revelation, and looks at the difference between the Quran and the Bible.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
A complete lesson, built around the principles of a knowledge rich curriculum, which seeks to explore the disciplinary question of whether holy books are still relevant today. Designed for Y7.
Resources are in dyslexia friendly font, with scaffolding and sentence starters. Also available as part of a bundle.
This lesson looks at how holy books contain historical stories that we can learn from, by looking at the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
A collection of practice exam questions, categorised by question type, complete with suggested responses on the reverse. Covers only Christianity but easily edited to include a second religion.
Can be printed onto thin card and folded in half (questions are on left and answers on the right) or printed onto Avery L7165 stickers and stuck onto index cards etc.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
This is lesson 7/10 in our unit on alternative religions and looks at the practice of Zen Buddhism. Students will analyse a clip to learn about the way of the Buddha. They will then go on to look at the practice of meditation before being guided through a meditation by the teacher.
In the last half of the lesson students will have the chance to do some creative work and design their own special ritual that helps them to find peace and calm.
AFL, G&T tasks and homework task included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
In this lesson students will investigate Humanism using resources from the Humanism website.
Students will look at Humanist beliefs and the idea of not believing in God, but valuing human beings.
AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
In this lesson students will investigate Humanism using resources from the Humanism website.
Students will look at Humanist beliefs and the idea of not believing in God, but valuing human beings.
AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
A 'Plug and Play' lesson.
In this lesson students will investigate the religion of Kabbalah. They will begin by peer-assessing the homework due in this lesson and then after sharing the learning objectives will analyse a video clip which looks at choosing whether or not to find out the truth about life.
Students will look at the Kabbalist idea that the universe is full of hidden messages and will decode a hidden message before undertaking a creative work task where they design their own hidden code.Students work in pairs to work out each-other's codes before reflecting on whether or not they could follow Kabbalah and give reasons for their response.
AFL, G&T tasks and Homework tasks included.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department.
Lesson 7 in a unit on morality in religion designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Categorising starter
Link to previous homework/learning.
Walkaround task to gather information
investigated a quote from the quran to find out what it teaches
analysing a story from islam to find out what it teaches
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
Lesson 5 in a unit in morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
Photo starter - empathise with the subjects in the photo
Link to previous learning and homework
cloxe exercise on Hindu morals
mind-mapping skills to show examples of activities which conflict with ahimsa and how Hindu morals could solve them.
PMI (positive, minus, interesting) a video clip on Ghandi
Creative independent work based on video clip
SEN and Bright Sparks (G&T) tasks included
Differentiated homework sheet
Created by Allerton Grange School RE department.
This is the final lesson in the unit on religion and morality designed for a Y9 class doing RS in one hour a week.
The sheet consists of a set of questions, each one allowing students to attain each of the Religious Education levels. Students can respond from any of the religions we have studied over the course of this unit and there is opportunity for students to respond individually to gain AT2 levels.
Created by Allerton Grange School RE Department
This is the introduction lesson to a new topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world.
Also available as part of a bundle. Designed for Y7.
This lesson begins with feedback on the assessment to the previous topic (not yet available on TES) before giving a basic introduction. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
This is a revision lesson for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world.
Also available as part of a bundle. Designed for Y7.
This lesson aims to support students in revising the main response to the disciplinary question and the substantive knowledge that they need in order to address it. There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
This is the assessment for the topic which seeks to explore the answers to the disciplinary question of whether holy books are relevant in today’s world.
Also available as part of a bundle with bonus assessment feedback lesson. Designed for Y7.
The lesson begins with a multiple choice knowledge quiz, before moving on to an essay question which will allow students to show off what they have learnt.
There are notes underneath the slides to help guide teacher delivery.
THE INTRODUCTION, CONSOLIDATION AND ASSESSMENT FROM THIS TOPIC ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AS INDIVIDUAL LESSONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.
