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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.

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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
Charities
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Charities

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on charities. This contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives: To describe what a charity is. To explain the reasons why people give money to charity. To evaluate whether it is any less moral to give money to charities abroad than at home. This resource has been adapted from an excellent resource by 'Charity Choice' which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charity-choice-1-hour-citizenship-lesson-plan-6051322
How the Media influences our ideas
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How the Media influences our ideas

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This lesson focuses on the different ways in the mass media influences our values, whether that be in a positive or negative manner. This is designed to take place over two 50-minute lessons.
The Four Noble Truths
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The Four Noble Truths

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A lesson on the Four Noble Truths that aims to take a different direction to other lessons posted on TES. It focuses on whether they adequately explain why there is suffering in the world. Please comment for feedback.
What Are Religious Experiences
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What Are Religious Experiences

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on religious experiences aimed predominantly at KS3 students. I have adapted previous material uploaded onto TES and included some of my own also. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of religious experience. To assess the evidence for religious experiences. To evaluate whether or not they provide convincing proof for the existence of God.
The Via Negativa
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The Via Negativa

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the via negativa. The main part of the lesson involves a set of discussion tasks and short written tasks to understand how the via negativa works, from which they then produce fact files on how three different scholars (including Aquinas) have contributed to the argument, leading to an evaluation task where students generate their own arguments for and against the via negativa 'providing the only the true way to understand God'. Some ideas have been borrowed from other contributions on TES, to whom I am very grateful. Learning Objectives: To describe how the Via Negativa approach works. To explain how scholars have supported this approach to describing God. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach.
Aquinas and Analogy
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Aquinas and Analogy

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on why and how Aquinas believed analogy provided the only meaningful way to describe God. It contains a series of short discussion and written exercises to meet the following objectives: To outline why Aquinas rejected the use of using univocal and equivocal language to describe God. To explain why Aquinas believed analogy could help us to describe God. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
How successful is the verification principle?
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How successful is the verification principle?

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This 50 minute lesson addresses A.J. Ayer's response to criticism from his strong and weak verification in the form of direct and indirect verification, then explores the strengths and weaknesses of the verification principle. In the plenary an evaluation of its relative success is discussed. Constructive feedback would be a bonus.
What are your attitudes to money
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What are your attitudes to money

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This lesson focuses on people's attitudes to money, then explores their own. It is a lesson that can be taught on its own, or as part of a wider unit on wealth and poverty.
London Terror Attacks
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London Terror Attacks

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A simple presentation used in my tutor group to explore what happened during the London terror attacks and how the UK government and the international community responded. It could easily be adapted to be used as an assembly.
Modern Conflict Fact Files
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Modern Conflict Fact Files

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This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.
Day Of The Dead
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Day Of The Dead

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Students use the information cards to add at least three facts about the Day of The Dead Festival using the 6W's. A set of SEN cards are available for less able students. This task can then be used as a base for students to create their own illustrated posters about the Day of the Dead Festival.
Viewpoints Towards Life After Death
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Viewpoints Towards Life After Death

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A set of simple information sheets regarding different views towards life after death including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Atheism and Spiritualism. Was used as part of a lesson where students constructed fact files on the different views, commenting on their overall opinion towards them.
OCR AS Philosophy Model Essays
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OCR AS Philosophy Model Essays

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This contains a set of model essays that can be used to support the delivery of the OCR AS Philosophy syllabus. Students could highlight and annotate its strengths and make suggestions for improvements as a task, or alternatively simply use it as a revision aid.
The Benefits of Living in a Multicultural Britian
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The Benefits of Living in a Multicultural Britian

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This contains a fully resourced lesson with a clear set of activities on the definition and benefits of living in a multicultural society. Credit must be given to the user 'Owall' for some of his/her ideas. If you amend or add to this please do add to TES since it is an important topic that I feel is under-resourced on TES.
The Morality of Abortion
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The Morality of Abortion

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This contains a fully resourced lesson towards the morality of abortion, aimed at KS4 students. It contains opportunities for class discussion, a video and a set of tasks in order for students to consider both pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints towards abortion. Learning Objectives: To describe the different viewpoints towards abortion. To explain the reasons for these viewpoints. To express your personal view on the morality of abortion.
LOST Decision Making Exercise
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LOST Decision Making Exercise

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A group task where students have to decide on the right course of action presented to them during their stay on the island. A good way to introduce this task is to show the clip of the plane crash from the first season of LOST to get them emotionally involved within it.
Three Refuges Assessment
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Three Refuges Assessment

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An assessment on the Three Refuges or Three Jewels. It contains clear levelled outcomes and sentence starters for the less able. Please feedback.
Student Guide To Marking Part E Evaluation Questions
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Student Guide To Marking Part E Evaluation Questions

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This resource can be used as a guide for students so they are clear in how to achieve full marks in the 12 mark evaluation questions or to help them peer assess another students answer. Aimed at the new AQA GCSE Religious Studies B Specification.
Light in World Faiths
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Light in World Faiths

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This information sheet and worksheet details how light in two of the world's major religions - Christianity and Hinduism. Students use the first page to complete two tasks (grid filling and venn diagram) to help them understand this. Worked very successfully with my students.