I am Head of Social Sciences at a Cambridgeshire School. Last year we achieved 80%+ A*-C in Sociology GCSE and over half of our students achieved A*/A at A Level.
Currently teaching OCR Sociology A Level and WJEC GCSE Sociology.
Any questions, message me.
I am Head of Social Sciences at a Cambridgeshire School. Last year we achieved 80%+ A*-C in Sociology GCSE and over half of our students achieved A*/A at A Level.
Currently teaching OCR Sociology A Level and WJEC GCSE Sociology.
Any questions, message me.
See individual descriptions of documents in my shop but includes:
Essay planning book for The Family and Crime and Deviance
An overview of the theories of the family
Blue collar & White collar crime sheet.
Sociological theories task sheet.
This is for the OLD WJEC Sociology GCSE Specification A*-U
This is a series of resources to get students retrieving information from the memory and psychopathology.
There is a bit of variety including:
Bingo (2)
Crosswords (2)
Work out the picture (1)
True/False (1)
Pyramid Builder (2)
Take 1 from each column (1)
Anagrams (1)
Odd one out (1)
Sort the PEEL paragraphs (1)
This is the answer, what is the question? (1)
Characteristic card sort (1)
And others
I use this at the start of other topic lessons to force students to recall information about previous topics.
A workbook to complete in order to summarise each of the studies needed as part of the OCR GCSE Psychology course. APRCE template for each study.
Each page has the same format where studies need to fill in information relating to the study.
We set this for homework as a consolidation activity.
Front page contains information that relates to our school but is uploaded as a publisher file and so can be deleted/adapted to your own school.
This is a simple overview of four different sociological theories (Functionalism, Feminism, Marxism and New Right)
There is an activity to do on each in order to work out what each theory argues. There is also an empty string puppet for students to fill in about who controls society according to that theory and whether they see it as good or bad.
There is also a key terms section to fill in.
Students enjoy doing this and provides them with a basic overview of each of the theories.
GCSE level and can be used for any exam board.
My students found these extremely useful and many have them on their wall for revision. I would recomment blowing up to A3.
Brief overview on the theories of the family including generic statements and key terms, family they prefer and don't prefer. Put these up around where students gathered before their GCSE exam.
A lesson about how the roles of women have changed in the family and why they have changed. More concentration on the latter.
There is also some debate about whether feminism is still needed or not by looking at improvements in women's lives and what is still to be improved.
File includes:
Powerpoint (with links to appropriate video clips)
I like to start the lesson by showing Meghan Trainor 'Dear Future Husband' to allow students to try to guess what we will be studying in the lesson.
Within the powerpoint there is also recent adverts to compare to the 1950s to show how little has changed.
Also a worksheet on adverts from the 1950s. Students have to find the point of the advert, what has improved for women, and what hasn't improved to help them come to a conclusion about whether feminism is still needed.
There is also a document from the Good Housekeeping Guide to show how women were expected to behave in the 1950s.
Kahoot link. I have also provided a Kahoot link (in powerpoint) for a fun quiz on the family (overview). Students love Kahoot!
Students loved this lesson and worked well with year 10-11. Great for the family topic or feminism in general.
Could be adapted for A Level.
Any feedback is greatly received.
A revision book for the first unit 'Understanding Social Processes' of the GCSE WJEC Sociology exam. Activities for students to work through in order to help them prepare for the exam. Exam help, activities etc. WJEC currently do not have a revision book so I have made my own.
Please leave a review or feedback of how to improve.
I also have a revision book for Understanding Social Structures available at: https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/understanding-social-structures-revision-book-wjec-sociology-11044585
Essay planning booklet for WJEC Sociology GCSE Family.
Includes:
List of past questions
Questions I have come up with (around 15-20)
Planning sheet with the title of each essay question on
An example mark scheme.
Tips on essay structure.
Our feedback sheet which I have after every essay page.
I tend to have a front cover (attached), followed by the past questions and my questions, then have a question plan sheet, followed by space (lined paper sheet), followed by a feedback sheet.
Students find these extremely helpful. Can be done in class and/or at home.
I have a booklet for crime and deviance and a booklet for the family
Please note this does not have topic info in, use the book for that.
I put together 3 overview sheets covering Top Down and Bottom up approaches to offender profiling. There are 2 sheets on AO1 and 1 sheet covering AO3 (all word documents). Photocopy as many as you like for your students but please don’t share with other teachers. These took roughly 3 hours to make!