An introduction to Theories and Methods for AQA 2015 Specification This is to encourage students to look at the development of Theory over time and link some of the concepts that the will have some knowledge of through their Year 12 studies. The tick sheet is an outline of the Theory and Methods Unit

The Sampling PowerPoint works through the whole lesson - explaining and prompting where activities follow. It works through types of Sampling, their advantages and disadvantages. Provides activities for Sampling, which are fairly hands-on and attempts to make the content more interesting and memorable for students. The Tick sheet is used to help students organise their folders/notes

The PET PowerPoint works through the whole lesson - explaining and prompting where activities follow. It works through the role of Practical, Ethical and Theoretical Considerations (PET), provides activities for these 3 focus areas, using for example Suicide as a Case Study for Theoretical Considerations and Laud Humphries for Ethical. There is a Peer Marking activity with Markscheme. The Tick sheet is used to help students organise their folders/notes.

This PowerPoint is used as the 9+th lesson for GCSE WJEC Sociology (Paper 2: Crime and Deviance Section). The PowerPoints covers Sociological Theory – Interactionism their core concepts and theories and an evaluation - with a separate ppt examining the role of the media. There are also a range of activities included. Reference to the text book is the WJEC Illuminate Textbook. I have embedded a video clip within the Media and Crime ppt, any problems, please let me know and I will send it to you separately.

This long activity supports a ‘Crime Day’ for Year 8/9 launched by the school. The activity is designed to last 1hour 20 mins. I have run the session several times and the activities work over an hour lesson but time can be reduced to make the lesson work for a 1 hour slot. The aim of this session is to introduce students to offender profiling (they are not expected to have any previous knowledge). The activities introduce the idea of offender profiling and what it is. Students are then introduced to the real crimes of the Railway Murderer (Railway Rapist) where offender profiling was successfully used. The student copy powerpoint, is simply what I printed off for students and gave out at the relevant stages of the lesson. I made students aware of two important things - 1. There is some relatively graphic content which I included because this information provided important clues. I made sure students knew that they had the option to leave the room if anything was upsetting. I have never had a student leave however! 2. At the end of the lesson, I made sure students were aware that I had used some poetic licence with some of the details. The events are true, but I have made up suspects 1,2 and 4, simply for the sake of the activity. There obviously were other suspects, but I did not have access to any details. I have also made up some of the information, for example the blood groups is entirely fictitious. So please do be aware of this! The activity works well and is very effectively, creating lots of analysis, deduction and discussion. The final slide is time dependent but provide a contrast where ‘offender profiling’ has not worked and actually been detrimental to justice.

I created this lesson for my A'Level Psychology lesson on Biological influences on Gender - specifically the role of genetics and hormones (Gender). There is a PowerPoint, videos as well as activities, e.g. the Silent Debate and assessments within the PowerPoint. I have a VLC copy of 'The Boy with no Penis' so if the link doesn't work let me know! AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3

This PowerPoint is used as the 5th lesson for GCSE WJEC Sociology (Paper 2: Crime and Deviance Section). The PowerPoints covers patterns of crime in terms of Social Groups, concepts relating to these and an evaluation. There are also a range of activities included, I used as a focus the town where the school is situation and base an applied task around it. The information I have used comes from - https://www.crime-statistics.co.uk/ This activity could easily be adapted to another area using this website and amending the figures. Reference to the text book is the WJEC Illuminate Textbook.

Year 8 lessons on SRE and health. There are a number of lessons and activities included here for various ability levels with lesson plans and a scheme of work.

Year 7 lessons on Government and Democracy.

1st lesson with my Year 12s - Tutor time. I used the powerpoint to get them to think about the GCSE/GCE gap! The powerpoint was to help get to know their fellow tutees. I have further Year 12 and 13 Tutor material uploaded.

I used the 1st 3 documents with my Yr 12s. We used the powerpoint and clips. In Yr 13 once the students had chosen, been on open days etc and been through the process, I asked them to write a how to guide for the year below - see Word Doc. They also made a short info film which I have and can provide. A good 6th form Tutor session and activity. I have other Yr 12 and 13 Tutor work uploaded

This provides a 1 hour plus start to Psychology develops the ideas of the methodology of psychologists and in particular ethical considerations, changes in ideas, thinking and medical ability. There are a good range of accompanying resources to see you through the lesson, to teach from and for students to record their individual/group ideas. This is based on the ethical experiments idea. . I have 3 taster sessions (all are uploaded).

Designed for Yr 13 as part of Post 18 pathways. An introduction to Apprenticeships and leads to plenty of discussion. I have other Yr 12 and 13 tutor material uploaded.

This PowerPoint is aimed at students and can form part of the taught delivery. It goes through the the reading and researching process and how to reading effectively, considering the role and significance of the book. It begins to introduce source evaluation. The resource log accompanies the PowerPoint and I used it in subsequent lessons as students got further into the research process. AQA A'Level EPQ 7993

Students were set the task of designing a revision booklet - working together on this as a group activity. The Revision Booklet Doc - 'Their instructions&' suggested all groups follow the same format, so that the end product had common themes. The other docs &';Ideology & Beliefs, Classification of Religion sections' are an example of what some groups produced. Students obtained the &'Possible Questions&'; from past AQA papers and questions suggested in the AQA text.

Activity for Social Groups and religion - info giving, followed by research and consolidation activity for students, followed by essay practice (SCLY3 format so would need a wording and total mark adaption).

Quiz involving 4 rounds - Sociologists, studies, picture round and pot luck. The Joker card enables a group to double their points (groups must declare their joker before the round starts). For a really competitive group 'The Devil Card' works well, enabling another team to steal points from one they elect. The document has the answers for each round included - make sure these are removed before use with a class!