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.

This lesson looks at the nature and purpose of families for Christians. It looks at traditional views against modern ones as well as the diversity of views. Exam style questions included.

This is a really fun couple of lessons, aimed at KS3 Y8-9. They take the role of investigators, looking into detailed 'case files' which include eye-witness testimonies, scientific reports and images. There are also videos contained within the power point. Topics include reincarnation, NDE, Mediums/Ghosts. I would recommend turning out the lights, have some lamps or fairy lights (at least initially) and play the X files music while the students come in. They get really excited and enjoy it. I'd also recommend photocopying onto sugar paper to add to the effect, printing each activity on different colour helps too.

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 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.

This lesson is very detailed, it looks at the main challenges to ethical naturalism by Hume and G.E.Moore. Ideal for adapting to your lesson.

Rather fittingly perhaps, this lesson follows on from marriage. We look at the contrasting attitudes to divorce within Christianity and why some see it as ok whilst many have difficulty with it. Exam style questions included.

This lesson follows the Church’s response to worldwide poverty following the AQA textbook. I have put a few questions throughout but the bulk of the lesson was designed to be an information retrieval/into a mind map activity - easily adaptable to carousel or group work. There are information sheets for each of the charities they can research.

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.

Lesson on Bradley’s Ethical Naturalism, follows the A level text book. Ideal for adaptation, lots of information.

This lesson focuses mainly on Christianity and looks at marriage and it’s value for Christians. It thinks about the nature and purpose of marriage for Christians. You can’t teach this without touching on the difficulty of homosexual marriage for Christians, this idea is explored in previous lessons but comes up again here. There are a couple videos, one is a nice one of the recent royal wedding, I found my students went all gushy and it was a nice moment as a class. The activity associated is about spotting the symbolism and understanding what it says about the beliefs.

This lesson is all about reconciliation and follows the AQA textbook. I have punctuated the lesson with various questions including some exam style ones. As with all my powerpoints, key words are colour coded in blue boxes, key quotes in yellow.

This lesson covers the contrasting beliefs in Christianity surrounding creation. It looks at the narrative of the story, before moving on to look at the interpretations - Non-literal, partly-literal and literal. There are a number of engaging activities in the lesson. Differentiation is primarily by outcome. Also included is my excellent 12 mark question plan

This is a really big lesson for worship and prayer, you may find it easy to split in two. It covers the who the whats of these different styles. I’ve also now updated it to include lots of videos through, which the students really like. My year 10s like to write EVERYTHING down, its good training for A level and will help the revise, however you may want to just turn them into crib sheets if you want the to note take. The activity is a sorting one but in the interests of time I recommend using highlighters, the hands are also included, it is a way of listing advantages and disadvantages - thinking along the lines of 12 mark question. In the powerpoint I’ve included a video that has stuff to do with speaking in tongues (its a long video but you’d start from about 11 min in. Obviously, skip this if you’re not confident in explaining this belief and don’t want to open a can of worms, most people find it a bit freaky. If you do include it, I recommend talking them through the video and explaining that these people are having a ‘religious experience’ and it’s their emotions on display. If the videos don’t load after a few moments, re launch the power point.

This is a shorter lesson that introduces the practices and explores the first of the 5 pillars, the Shahadah

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.

Long lesson on Genetic engineering designer babies, cloning etc. originally designed for outgoing WJEC but highly adaptable