RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
RS Teacher in an Outstanding comprehensive school in London. All my lessons are always conceptual, accurate in content, challenging and engaging for students. The department is consistently among the best results in the school with strong P8 and attainment scores. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on resources, good or bad, I'm always looking to improve, please review!
This is a full unit for the 9-1 AQA GCSE RS course. Please consult individual lesson pages (uploaded individually) for detail on each.
The lessons are designed to be taught as doubles but are easily adaptable to squeeze into shorter periods (as I do because we have an odd timetable)
I recommend doing them in this order, the lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1: Nature of God
Lesson 2: The Trinity
Lesson 3: Creation
Lesson 4: Incarnation and Son of God
Lesson 5: The crucifixion
Lesson 6: Resurrection and ascension
Lesson 7: Sin, Salvation and Atonement
Lesson 8: Heaven and Hell
Lesson 9: Problem of Evil
I’ve also included the keywords revision card game.
Many of the lessons have timers and videos embedded, the videos take a few seconds to load, if they don’t work simply reopen the power point.
I’ve kept the pricing low, all of us work hard for our money.
Thank you!
Here is the whole unit for Christianity practices, if you have seen my other lessons then you will know that my slides are loaded with information, key terms, key quotes and questions (mostly exam style). These are very adaptable slides to change for your style or class set.
These 10 lessons are:
Worship and Prayer
The Sacraments Baptism and Communion
Pilgrimage
Festivals
Role of the Church in the community
The place of mission and Evangelism
Growth of the worldwide Church
Reconciliation
Persecution
Church’s response to worldwide poverty
I’ve also included my question bank for this sub-unit and the key words booklet.
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
AQA GCSE RE RS - Islam Beliefs lessons 1 - 4
For more information on each lesson, please see individual lesson pages.
Lesson 1: Sunni Shi’a Split
Lesson 2: Tawhid - oneness of God
Lesson 3: Nature of God and Supremacy of God’s will
Lesson 4: Predestination.
Lesson 5: Angels
Lesson 6: Life after death
Lesson 7: Prophets
Lesson 8: Qur’an and Holy books.
I’ve also thrown in my question bank for this topic.
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
There are videos embedded using the web player app. You need to click to activate the plug in on the embed. Sometimes they don’t work but normally reloading the PPT solves the problem!
Also including the key words booklet to go with the unit, Unit overview and revision work book
My complete GCSE Islam unit. Lots of information on each powerpoint, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable to include more active learning activities as per your style of teaching. Lots of practice exam questions in each lesson.
Also included are to massive question banks for each subunit and a Keywords card game (easily adaptable to flash cards)
Beliefs:
Lesson 1: Sunni Shi’a Split
Lesson 2: Tawhid - oneness of God
Lesson 3: Nature of God and Supremacy of God’s will
Lesson 4: Predestination.
Lesson 5: Angels
Lesson 6: Life after death
Lesson 7: Prophets
Lesson 8: Qur’an and Holy books.
Practices
Lesson 1 – Introduction 5 pillars, 10 Obligatory Acts, Shahadah
Lesson 2 – Salah
Lesson 3 – Sawm
Lesson 4 – Zakah
Lesson 5 – Hajj
Lesson 6 – Id-ul-Fitr Id-ul-Adha
Lesson 7 - Jihad
Lesson 8 - Ashura
This is a scheme of work for AQA GCSE RS, there are 8 lessons.
1 - 5 pillars and 10 obligatory acts and Shahadah
2 - Salah
3 - Sawm
4 - Zakah
5 - Hajj
6 - Id-ul-Fitr and Id-ul-Adha
7 - Jihad
8 - Ashura
My lessons tend to be quite information heavy so they are a good revision resource, you may find you need to add in more activities as appropriate for your teaching style.
A brief introduction to the main concepts of Judaism, used engaging videos.
Themes introduced include covenant and Law.
It explores the idea of the Judaism both as a religion and as 'Jewishness' - ethnic Judaism. That of a people belonging to God, agreeing to keep God's holy commands.
(Picture for attention, it provokes some great responses in class!)
4 Lessons covering various topics from AQA A level Religious Studies unit on secularisation.
I didn’t find it the most interesting of all the topics to teach so hopefully this allows you to get through it quickly and efficiently!
Topics include:
Militant Atheism
Develops in Christian thought (wealth and poverty)
New forms of Expression: Fresh Expressions
New forms of Expression: House Church Movement
Liberation Theology
In this lesson we explore the issue of gender equality. It looks at what it is and what it look/ doesn’t look like. A provocative starter includes images of 1950s sexist adds given out, great for getting discussion going.
The lesson focuses on how Christians perceive gender difference as a good thing, but that it might mean there are different but equal roles men and women should play. It looks at the reasons why some Christians think this and why some do not.
Lots of opportunity for discussion throughout.
Extended lesson power point on the Free Will Defence theodicy, with reference to Mackie and Plantinga's arguments.
Also included are sort cards for Mackie's arguments.
Please rate and review.
Included:
Full lesson and activities for:
Process Theology
Free will defense
Presentations for:
Irenaen/Hick Theodicy
Augustinian Theodicy
Problem of Evil (intro)
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
There are videos embedded using the web player app. You need to click to activate the plug in on the embed. Sometimes they don’t work but normally reloading the PPT solves the problem!
Key words booklet included.
Lesson 1: What is Crime?
Lesson 2: Reasons for Crime
Lesson 3: Attitudes to Criminals
Lesson 4: Aims of Punishment
Lesson 5: Attitudes to the Treatment of Criminals
Lesson 6: Attitudes to Forgiveness
Lesson 7: Attitudes to the Death Penalty
This bundle includes my keyword revision game for themes B,C,D,E,F AND Christianity and Islam
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
This is a game I’ve created for my year 11’s. They’ve been struggling with keywords so this is a fun activity that can be played multiple times with them.
There are differing levels of rules so can allow for differentiation as well.
The cards have been created so that you can print them double sided and the tiles will match up (or print and photocopy 1 sided - 2 sided and it should work)
The rules in short are,
Spread the cards out across your table with the keyword facing up
Each player takes it in turn to select a card and guess the definition of the word.
If the player guesses correctly with the reverse of the card they keep the card and add it to their pile.
If they are incorrect the leave the card to the table and put back 3 cards from their hand.
Winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Also available
Christianity
Islam
A: Marriage and the Family
B: Religion and Life
C: The existence of God and revelation
D: Peace and conflict
E: Religion, Crime and Punishment
F: Religion, Human rights and social justice.
Thanks
This is a very detailed Scheme of Work for Christianity and Islam sections of the AQA Short Course, it is designed to be taught on roughly 2 hours a fortnight but can be adapted easily.
Included are lesson activity ideas and guidance on content.
It covers both Christianity and Islam beliefs.
This large lesson covers both Eids. There are also exam questions included. For Id-ul-Adha I have included some links to environmental ethics, you may not wish to show some of these images to you class or go down that road, but I found my year 10s really got into a debate about whether it was necessary to sacrifice that many animals today.
Revision work book for Theme D: Religion, peace and conflict.
This large pack has a number of questions designed to target revision and draw attention to particular understandings and themes.
I focus the majority of this unit on Christianity as there is enough diversity to fulfill the exam requirements. However, it does still include Islam when appropriate.
This lesson contains lots of information slides, ideal for home learning/revision. Easily adaptable into active learning strategies for your teaching style.
There are videos embedded using the web player app. You need to click to activate the plug in on the embed. Sometimes they don’t work but normally reloading the PPT solves the problem!
Also including the key words booklet to go with the unit.
Lesson 1: Origins of the Universe
Lesson 2: Value of the world
Lesson 3: The Environment and Pollution
Lesson 4: Use of Animals
Lesson 5: Abortion
Lesson 6: Euthanasia
This lesson explores Christian attitudes to sex (there is enough diversity to cover exam requirements) it goes behind the scenes to look at the idea of complimentary pairs in creation.
I really wanted to help students understand that when some Christians disagree with homosexuality it isn’t necessarily the case that they are homophobic, but rather that their world view doesn’t sustain the idea of homosexuality and so it places them in a difficult position, choosing between what they believe are eternal principles and what modern society expects. I find this helps students to understand the diversity of views.
there are exam questions included.
This has been designed to be adaptable, there is an information sheet that can be adapted in multiple ways, differentiated questions and optional activities that you can do with it.
Also on the slides are exam questions.
Note - the embedded videos take a few seconds to load, if they don’t simply re open the power point, go to the slide and wait a few moments.