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!

The file includes the following: Blank board games sheet. (publisher) Sociology themed game counters (publisher) Instructions for students to make the board game (powerpoint) Question cards templates for students to cut out. (word) Students enjoy making their own games. I give each group a topic (The family or crime and deviance for example) and get them to make a game based around this. Give each group scissors, glue, an A3 game board on card and the resources and they make it. It may take 2-3 lessons but well worth it. Students then get the opportunity to play theirs and others in the lesson after. Great way of students to check understanding of topics and turn the learning on its head. Students have to go through the book to formulate questions, Great for revision without them even realising it! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. Can be used in any subject but the counters are specific to Sociology.

This sheet contains a huge number of names as a spider diagram, Laid out a students wanted, where each theorist falls and under which topic. Took an extremely long time to make!

3 booklets containing information about essay structure for each question type, lists of questions for each question type, and specification overview. All three exams are covered in the three booklets. Questions have been taken from elsewhere or thought up by myself. We print each booklet in different colours. Front page will need to be changed to suit the school and examination date. All in PDF format, sorry I don’t seem to have the publisher/word versions any more. Please note: This is NOT a content revision booklet, it is just for structure of exam questions, specification overview and practice questions. Took roughly 8 hours to make the booklets. Last year over half our students achieved A*/A in A Level Sociology (2 were predicted an A/A*).

All the resources you need for a Sociology theories display. I have included: 4 theory overview sheets (Marxism, Feminism, Functionalism and New Right). On each of those sheets is some information regarding: Theory’s view about society, key sociologists linked to that theory, views on the family and views on crime. These can be changed if you study a different topic as they are in publisher format. I’ve also made them in Word format following constructive feedback! I have also included pictures and pieces of information, quotes etc that I used for my display. I do not own the rights to the pictures and so to make it clear, you are paying for the overview sheets and the information I have produced. I have included the picture about how I laid it out, but you may wish to lay it out differently. I also backed on different coloured paper to highlight the different theories. Currently working on Interactionism and Postmodernism. Alternatively/additionally, you can print off just the overview sheets to hand out to students. Took roughly 6 hours to do make all of the resources so asking for £8. Once it’s all up though it will last for years and won’t need updating. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

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.

Essay planning booklet for WJEC Sociology GCSE Crime and Deviance 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. This is for the OLD WJEC GCSE Sociology Course A*-U

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

OCR A Level Sociology. Crime and Deviance revision sheet. Overview of theories, names, concepts etc. Took a long time to make! I also have one available for Sociology of the Family, see other resources. Please feel free to review and give feedback on how to improve. Students were extremely happy with this resource, probably more so than any other as it helped them visualise where theory relate to one another.

7 files to help teach research methods. There are no powerpoints in this file. The file includes a worksheet on access (gatekeepers) where students have to come up with the gatekeeper for the situation. A worksheet where students are given ways in which values (bias) can enter research and they have to think of ways this could impact on their research. A double page activity sheet on positivism to highlight its scientific approach etc. A Twitter sheet for students to outline what each methodological perspective may tweet about when it comes to research #quantitative etc. A sampling activity where students think about the best sampling type for each piece of research. A blank tables for students to fill in about four approaches to methodology (positivist, interpretivist, realist and feminist) Another blank table for students to fill in about different types of observations.

The activity gets students to apply their knowledge of the bottom up approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling to 2 crimes cases. They have a 2 maps, 2 lists of crimes. They have to work out, using geogprahical profiling: If it is a marauder/commuter (they would need to have been taught this but most teachers do as part of geographical profiling). Where their home base is Building up an offender profile based on the evidence they have. This resource includes: 2 maps (best printed A3 doubled sided) - publisher 2 lists of crimes (best printed A4 double sided) - word - be careful, teacher answers are on the last page. Powerpoint introduction and instructions for the activity. This took my 4 classes 20-30 minutes. They loved doing it and it will definitely become a staple of my teaching. It is based in Peterborough but will work anywhere. Best taught straight after the AO1 on geographical profiling and before AO3.

I have created a revision booklet for Paper 1 OCR GCSE Psychology 9-1 (new spec). This has a variety of activities to help students revise the content for: Criminal Psychology Development Psychological Problems There is no research methods in this booklet. I have decided against putting it in this booklet as I feel it would be best as a stand alone booklet due to the fact it is in both papers. There are many research methods booklets available and little changes in research methods so people will want to use their own. Also, I have NOT included the studies in here. The reason is that I have a separate studies booklet that I get my students to fill in across the 2 years for homework. I have included this for you to use (if you wish). This is a page for each study for students to fill in. There are a variety of crosswords, word searches, gap fills, cryptograms, double puzzles and others. The criticisms involve note taking. There is also a front cover, you may wish to do your own, hence why it is at the end. A side note: I am a teacher (not a full time author, or part time for that matter), just like you! It has taken me roughly 20 hours to make this booklet, if you are expecting a bound revision booklet then please look elsewhere. This is mainly to help students revisit content alongside the Billingham book. Equally you are paying to be able to print as many copies of this for your own students as you like. Please do not reupload! Many thanks! If you have any questions please feel free to message me. I will eventually produce a booklet for Paper 2.

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.

Revision book for Understanding Social Structures (compulsory core 2). This is for the WJEC exam board. Can be used in conjunction with the WJEC GCSE Sociology book. Some activities and note taking sections for students to complete. There is also an exam tips section as well as a key terms section for students to fill in. I also have a revision book for Understanding Social Processes. No revision books exist for WJEC GCSE Sociology so I made this. Students have found this very useful.

This is a sorting activity. Students put into groups and have to sort the slips into Approach, Name and Year, Aim, Procedure (1,2, or 3 slips), Results (1, 2 or 3 slips), Group design, Research method, 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage. There are also 7 red herrings that don't fit in any of the groups. To help students, keep checking their red herring pile. Tell them if they are right or wrong on the red herrings every so often. Students had great fun doing this. I put up a prize for the winning team. Took around 45 mins but students enjoyed it and took a lot from it. There are two attached files: one in colour for the teacher to distinguish between the different approaches) and one in black and white for students to sort through. Great for paper 3, comparing the different approaches and classic studies. It covers, Sherif, Baddeley, Raine, Watson and Rayner and Rosenhan Any questions, message me. Thanks

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.

Students love doing this fun cartoon and stages match up. Hand drawn by myself to illustrate the stages of Cohen's Status Frustration. File comes with each of the 6 stages. Students have to put them in a flow diagram. Students can also add their own speech and thoughts to the bubbles on the pictures. (Correct order of the stages included as a picture). Can be used for GCSE or A Level. All exam boards use Cohen's Status Frustration in Crime and Deviance topic. I am looking at providing more of these cartoons to illustrate different theories. Let me know if there are any you would like. Please provide feedback if you like.

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.

Activity to label structure of a neuron. Colour coded table including part, description and function. Cut and stick exercise. Made for A Level Psychology but no reason it couldn't be used for other sciences. (Answers included)