Eight page booklet : define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists
Geography Case Study
NEOM is a planned urban development in north-west Saudi Arabia
When completed it will cover 26,500 km² which is larger than the whole of Wales
Why does Saudi Arabia want to build Neom?
Why is the Huwaitat tribe extremely worried?
Abdul Rahim al-Hwaiti: terrorist or martyr?
This resource includes a variety of lesson activities to pick and choose:
Photographic Analysis: The Line (includes worksheet)
Which Geography keyword is the odd one out?
Which country is the odd one out?
Several slides to project and set the scene (locational knowledge, artists’ impressions of the planned districts)
Links to videos of the Neom development: ‘Saudi Arabia’s mega project’; ‘“The Line” under construction in Saudi Arabia’; ‘Neom: The dark side’
Question Grid: Neom (Who? What? Where? etc, vs is… did… can… etc)
The death of Abdul Rahim al-Hwaiti, a Huwaitat tribesman from the area where the Saudi government wants to build Neom. Abdul posted a video on YouTube saying he did not want money to leave his home. A day later and he was shot dead by the Saudi Army
Concept Map: Neom (35 facts, to be colour coded - Locations; Causes; Effects; Management; Supporting Data
Illustrated glossary: Neom (Peak Oil; Economic diversification; Population density; Desalination plant) - definitions given, students to draw their understanding
Thought Chains: Neom - using knowledge learned so far, students complete boxes (because… and so… Therefore… For example…) to show understanding using scaffolding for higher level answers (eg ‘Saudi Arabia needs to DIVERSIFY its industries…’; ‘The region currently has a POPULATION DENSITY of just 6 people per km²’; ‘Neom is / is not ENVIRONMENTALLY sustainable
(‘Planet’)…’)
Geo-Trinity: Neom - students show similarities and differences between the Saudi government, Huwaitat tribespeople and foreign tourists
‘Six Hats’: Neom: - de Bono’s critical thinking technique
Design a sustainable hotel for Neom - choose five (from twenty-four) features of a sustainable resort, then explain the decision (eg eShuttle buses between the hotel and public transportation hubs; Install ‘smart’ showers that limit their usage to a pre-set time; Stock locally-made Fair Trade hotel souvenirs rather than branded/designer items)
Stakeholders conclusion: Neom - students compare different opinions of the development with their own
Teachers’ background information: links to websites, including the original BBC News story and the official Neom site
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
ETHICAL LANGUAGE – META-ETHICS
Definition
Do mind-independent moral properties exist?
Moral realism
Moral anti-realism
Cognitivism
True/false statements
Non-cognitivism
Grounding problem
NATURALISM
Cognitivist + realist
Fixed absolutes
F.H. BRADLEY
Concrete absolute reality
Moral perspective
Self-realisation
Observation
Criticism
DAVID HUME
Empiricist challenge
Reason vs emotion
Moral good + evil
Hume’s Law
Moral ‘ought’ statements
Factual ‘is’ statements
Non-cognitive vs cognitive
PHILIPPA FOOT
Virtue ethics
Moral rules
‘Natural goodness’
J.L. MACKIE
Anti-realism
Moral rules
Tradition
Variations between cultures
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Moral nihilism
Verification
Tautologies
Open question argument
Non-moral property
INTUITIONISM
G.E. MOORE
NON-NATURALISM
Intuition
Intrinsic good
Non-natural property
Naturalistic fallacy
Closed vs open questions
H.A. PRICHARD
Moral obligations
Duty
Moral vocabulary
W.D. ROSS
Conflicting duties
Prima facie duties
Overriding obligation
Seven foundational prima facie duties
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Argument from queerness
Cultural relativism
EMOTIVISM
Approval vs disapproval
DAVID HUME
MORAL JUDGEMENTS MOTIVATE ACTION
HUME’S FORK
A.J. AYER
Three kinds of knowledge
ANALYTIC JUDGEMENTS
SYNTHETIC JUDGEMENTS
MORAL JUDGEMENTS
Judgements of value
Utterances of preference
C.L. STEVENSON
Attitude relative to fundamental belief
Persuasion
Approval/disapproval
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Quantify goodness/pleasure
Foot’s moral realism
Moral diversity
Moral nihilism
Changing moral views
Moral progress
Embedding problem
Key issues:
What is meant by ‘good’
Meaningful vs meaningless
Powerpoint inspired by the RGS scheme of work "China Today". Whole lesson, includes starter (multinational companies), comparison of Shenzhen in 1970 with today, Geographical mystery about Apple's involvement ion China (WHAT were the reasons for moving iPhone production to China? HOW were the Foxconn workers treated? WHY are there nets outside Foxconn factory windows? WHO benefits from Apple products being made in China? ), differentiated questions (Explain why Apple was so interested in making its products in China; Compare the opinions of a Foxconn worker in China with an Apple customer in the UK. Then give your opinion of Foxconn/Apple; Describe the living and working conditions inside a Chinese factory like Foxconn) and plenary (the suicide of Ma Xiang Qian )
The establishment of government and power
Peace with Germany
Civil war and foreign relations (1918 to 1924)
War Communism and New Economic Policy (1918 to 1921)
Lenin, government and the Communist Party
colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates
Two part fieldwork/coursework booklet
Made with the 2016 GCSE syllabus changes in mind
Follows Footsteps to Investigation (Hypothesis; Expected Outcomes; Methodology; Results; Analysis; Conclusion; Evaluation) plus the chance to write a simple risk assessment for the trip
Part One: COASTAL investigation to answer the hypothesis "Hornsea needs sea defences"
Includes destructive/constructive waves; beach cross section; annotated landscape sketch; tally chart; angle data chart
Part Two: ECONOMIC investigation to answer the hypothesis "Tourism is important for Hornsea"
Includes: Land use survey; bipolar landscape evaluation; visitor questionnaire; sphere of influence; cumulative frequency graph; bar graph; pie graph; Butler's Model
Revision for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Three pages
OMNIPOTENCE
Divine power
• DESCARTES
• AQUINAS + SWINBURNE
• ANTHONY KENNY
Self-imposed limitation
• PETER VARDY
• JOHN MACQUARRIE
• ALVIN PLANTINGA
• WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
OMNIBENEVOLENCE
Divine benevolence
JOHN
HOSEA
EXODUS
AMOS
PSALMS
ETERNITY
Divine eternity
Boethius
Anselm
o HARTSHORNE; KENNY
• RICHARD SWINBURNE
• FRIEDRICH SCHLEIRMACHER
FREE WILL (+ omniscience)
Romans
Hebrews
Key Issues
Each page is set up so there is room to add revision notes. The idea is that each page contains one case study so that exam revision can be condensed and is hopefully generic enough for any school’s chosen case studies. Topics are straight from the AQA syllabus…
TECTONIC HAZARDS IN A DEVELOPED COUNTRY
TECTONIC HAZARDS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
TROPICAL STORMS
EXTREME WEATHER IN THE UK
CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE QUATERNARY PERIOD
SMALL SCALE UK ECOSYSTEMS
TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
HOT DESERTS
COLD ENVIRONMENTS
COASTAL LANDFORMS IN THE UK
COASTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE UK
RIVER LANDFORMS IN THE UK
FLOOD MANAGEMENT SCHEMES IN THE UK
GLACIAL LANDFORMS IN THE UK
TOURISM IN A GLACIATED UPLAND AREA OF THE UK
A MAJOR CITY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE URBAN POOR
A MAJOR CITY IN THE UK
AN URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT
GROWTH OF TOURISM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Parts One & Two)
SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY IN THE UK
A LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND WATER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
A LARGE-SCALE WATER TRANSFER SCHEME
EXTRACTION OF FOSSIL FUELS
RENEWABLE ENERGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
GEOGRAPHICAL APPLICATIONS: PHYSICAL FIELDWORK
GEOGRAPHICAL APPLICATIONS: HUMAN FIELDWORK
GLOSSARY OF KEY GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS IN THE AQA SYLLABUS
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Seven pages
DCT – SOCIETY
GENDER + SOCIETY
Key terms:
Feminism
Gender biology
Gender identification
Gender expression
Socialisation
Patriarchal society
Gender dysphoria
Misogyny
EFFECTS OF CHANGING VIEWS ON GENDER + GENDER ROLES IN CHRISTIANITY
Roles of men + women in family and society:
Hermeneutics
Genesis 1
Both genders reflect nature of God
Genesis 2: “no suitable helper”
Implied inferiority
‘Helper’ depends on translation
Genesis 3: Eve tempted by serpent
Women weaker will than men
Men shouldn’t let women take lead in decision-making
Ephesians 5: “Wives, submit yourselves"
Husbands must love their wives like their own bodies
Paul
Cultural norms of 1st century Rome
Patriarchal society
Comparisons to Church + Christ’s relationship
1 Peter 3: ‘weaker sex’
1 Timothy 2: women must learn in silence + never assume authority over man
‘Head’ in Greek also translates to source of life
‘MULIERIS DIGNITATEM’
JOHN PAUL II
Response to rise of feminism
Virgin Mary recognised as theotokos
Gender roles
Mariage is mutual relationship of equals
Genesis 2
Women shouldn’t take on male roles
“Feminine originality”
Motherhood + parenthood
“The woman’s part”
Cultural shift in attitudes to women
Rejects feminist criticisms (eg de Beauvir + Frieden)
motherhood demeaning to women
MARY THE MODEL OF MOTHERHOOD
Special value God place on motherhood
MYSTERY OF GENERATION
Mystery inherent in Trinity
‘sincere gift of self’
Man +woman ‘one flesh’
MUTUALITY
“Special debt to the woman”
ACTIVE MOTHERHOOD
Different types of family:
"Intact families
Blended family relationships
CATECHISM OF CATHOLIC CHURCH: “does not tolerate ‘trial marriages’”
Christian responses to contemporary secular views about roles of men + women in family and society
Conservative Protestant Christian responses
Biblical theology is timeless
Gender roles:
Purely biological, not product of culture
Foucault
KATY RUDY
Gender roles illustrate power the ‘Right’ in American politics + society
Mistrust of socially liberal ideologies
Feminism cause of family breakdowns
Men + women created equal but different
Complementarianism
Motherhood + parenthood:
Woman’s role ‘domestic haven’
Christian home place of refuge, love, peace
Eve = ‘mother of all living’
Paul: husband must provide for family
Different types of family:
Critical of feminism, cohabitation + same-sex relationships
Feminism has led to eroticisation
Foucault
Couples expect too much from relationships
Christianity values permanency
Relationships too private + egocentric
Christian family should look outwards
Same-sex parents not truly Christian
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Six pages
DCT – CHALLENGES
THE CHALLENGE OF SECULARISM
Secularism
Secularisation
DAVID FORD
JOSE CASANOVA
God is an illusion
SIGMUND FREUD
Humans personify ‘purpose’
Link to Plato’s forms
Coping mechanism
RICHARD DAWKINS:
Religion narrows perception, science widens it
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
Matthew 5
Objections to secularism
JO MARCHANT
Physiological benefits
“Feeling part of something bigger"
"Knowledge of our own mortality”
CHARLES TAYLOR
'Subtraction stories’
Post-Enlightenment attitude
TERRY EAGLETON
Marx
“Secularism is largely doomed”
Secular capitalism
Events of 9/11
Positivist dream of world without religion
Christianity should play no part in public life
Secular humanism
AMSTERDAM DECLARATION
Seven aims of modern humanism
Programmatic secularism
Procedural secularism
“Diversity gone mad”
ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST FAITH SCHOOLS
Radicalisation
House of Lords
Dominionism
Reconstructionism
SECULARISATION PROS AND CONS
Social cohesion
Corrupt theocracy
Disenchantment
Religious motives replaced by rational motives
MAX WEBER
Key issues
LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND MARX
Marx’s teaching on alienation + exploitation
Alienation
Dehumanisation
"Fundamental evil of capitalist society”
Exploitation
Means to an end
Historical materialism =
Praxis
Proletariat must revolt against bourgeoisie
False consciousness
‘Joined-up’ thinking
Working towards common good
Pearson Edxcel A-level Music
Two pages
To be printed A3 size
JS BACH - 'CANTATA, EIN FESTE BURG, BWV 80: MOVEMENTS 1,2 8’
Mind map: 'Movement 1’
Mind map connections:
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Structure
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Mind map: 'Movement 2’
Mind map connections:
Harmony
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Notes on 'Movement 8’
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel )
Two pages
To be printed A3 size
BERLIOZ - 'SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’
Background notes
Mind Map (‘Introduction’):
Melody
Texture
Instrumentation
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Mind Map (‘Sonata Form’):
Melody
Instrumentation
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION – RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE
NEGATIVE, ANALOGICAL, OR SYMBOLIC
APOPHATIC WAY
• PSEUDO DIONYSIUS
• MAIMONIDES
CATAPHATIC WAY
• AQUINAS
• VINCENT BRÜMMER
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE
• PAUL TILLICH
Key Issues
TWENTIETH CENTURY PERSPECTIVES
LOGICAL POSITIVISM
• VIENNA CIRCLE
• A.J. AYER
LANGUAGE GAMES
• LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
• DON CUPITT
• DZ PHILLIPS
FALSIFICATION SYMPOSIUM
• KARL POPPER
• ANTONY FLEW
• R.M. HARE
• BASIL MITCHELL
Key Issues
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Five pages
DCT – LIVING
CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES
BIBLE = ONLY AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN MORALS
Theonomous Christian ethics
Jesus criticised Pharisees for following law too literally
Sola scriptura
2 Timothy
theopneustos
2 Peter
Issues with theonomous ethics
TRANSLATION
Exodus
WHICH BIBLE
Martin Luther
apocrypha
CONTRADICTIONS (OT vs NT)
CHERRY PICKING
Leviticus
Bibliolatry
INTERPRETATION
BIBLE, CHURCH + REASON
SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN MORALS
Heteronomous
Roman Catholic attitudes
Order of decision-making authority
Sacred Tradition
Magisterium
VATICAN II COUNCIL 1975
Papal infallibility
ex cathedra
Pius IX
Human reason (Natural Law):
JOHN PAUL II
Issues with accepting Church teachings
Jesus
Pharisees
ROSEMARY RADFORD REUTHER
Liberation theology
Protestant attitudes to Church teachings
Order of decision-making
Tradition
Archbishop of Canterbury
Reformation:
STANLEY HAUERWAS
AGAPE
Autonomous Christian ethics
1 Corinthians
Mark
HANS KÜNG
BENEDICT XVI
person of goodwill
'global ethic’
PAUL TILLICH
CHURCH HAS AUTHORITY OVER INDIVIDUALS
Subjectivity
Collective wisdom
God’s word
Agapeic action
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: PERSONAL vs COMMUNAL
Human freewill
Ability to reason
Beliefs of majority
Utilitarianism
God’s judgement of individuals
Community **
CHRISTIAN MORAL ACTION
BONHOEFFER
Assassination attempt against Hitler
DUTY TO GOD + THE STATE
Obedience, leadership + doing God’s will
Cost of Discipleship
Romans
God-given authority
God’s will
DAWKINS
**CHRISTIANS’ KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL **
Conscience
AQUINAS
Humanity corrupted by Fall
Decisions checked by community
Freewill
Civil disobedience
Teachings of Christ
‘Act and Being’
Church or state
Mark
Romans
Exodus
Daniel
MLK + Rosa Parks
Suffragettes
DUTY TO GOD OR STATE?
Choice should be obvious
Jesus
“Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s”
Bonhoeffer
Passivity and evil
Romans
Leadership on Earth
Fundamental Christian principles
Christians protesting abortions
Bonhoeffer’s extreme circumstances
Hitler as ‘anti-Christ’
MEIN KAMPF
Anti-Semitism
CHURCH AS COMMUNITY + SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
Confessing Church
Visible Church community
Proverbs
Sermon on Mount
SALT + LIGHT
‘Religionless Christianity’
Focus on Christ
Finkenwalde
Personal discipline
Look outwards, not inwards
Foundation of prayer
Centrality of study + discussion
Brotherhood
‘Cheap grace’ vs 'costly grace’
Struggling as Christ did
Mark
"The badge of true discipleship”
Jesus “the man for others”
BONHOEFFER’S EMPHASIS ON SUFFERING
Contemporary relevance
Bonhoeffer’s extreme experiences
Effects of globalisation
Jesus as central starting point
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Two pages
RELIGION + ETHICS – CONSCIENCE
AQUINAS’ THEOLOGICAL APPROACH
‘Reason making right decisions’
Ratio
Aristotle’s SENSITIVE SOUL
Synderesis
Conscientia
Vincible ignorance
Invincible ignorance
FREUD’S PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Human psyche
Unconscious mind
Preconscious mind
Conscious mind
Tripartite personality:
Id
Ego
Superego
Other religious responses:
JOSEPH BUTLER
Innate God-given morality
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN:
Voice of God
AUGUSTINE
Intuitive, less rationalist
Secular responses:
JEAN PIAGET
Mature + immature conscience
Two stages of moral development
Heteronomous morality
Autonomous morality
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG
Authority figures
Social interaction
ERICH FROMM
External authorities
Guilty conscience
Authoritarian conscience
Humanistic conscience
Modern responses:
RICHARD DAWKINS
Evolution
Is conscience real?
Romans 2
‘Lust to be nice’
Product of nurture
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Seven pages
APPLIED ETHICS
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Examples of CSR:
Gates Foundation
M&S f
Merck & Co
Amazon
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Friedman Doctrine
'Hypocritical window dressing’
Greenwashing
Coca-Cola’s Giving Pledge
KANTIAN ETHICS
Goodwill
Universalisability
Formula of the End in Itself
UTILITARIANISM
Act Utilitarianism
Bentham
Natural rights “nonsense on stilts”
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Evaluation
GLOBALISATION
Interconnectedness
Issues
Loss, abuse, damage and inequality
KANTIAN ETHICS
Capitalism
UTILITARIANISM
Objective empirical approach
Voluntary diversification
Evaluation
**GOOD ETHICS IS GOOD BUSINESS **
Duty to be honest
FRIEDMAN
Mill’s harm principle
Singer’s strong principle
ADAM SMITH
Self-interest
KARL MARX
Instability in capitalism
Exploiting labour
KANTIAN ETHICS
Self-satisfaction instead
UTILITARIANISM
Pursuit of lower pleasures
Evaluation
EUTHANASIA
Should ‘good death’ be universally permitted?
SANCTITY OF LIFE
Human life made in God’s image
Genesis 1
Catholic DECLARATION ON EUTHANASIA
Natural Law’s preservation of life
Doctrine of double effect
PIUS XII
Secondary effect of medicines
Dignity of the human person
Technological abuse
Criticism of SofL
DANIEL MAGUIRE
PETER SINGER
Value to community also
RONALD DWORKIN
Affirming life
QUALITY OF LIFE
Secular concept
Case studies:
DANIEL JAMES
TONY NICKLINSON
Personhood
GERMAIN GRISEZ
Criticisms of QofL
‘Playing God’
Consent
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
GREGORY PENCE
Autonomy
NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
Persistent vegetative state
PERSONAL AUTONOMY
Self-determination
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
J.S MILL
Individual is sovereign
'Harm principle’
Criticisms
One’s life is of value to others
Depression
MEDICAL + NON-MEDICAL INTERVENTION
Difference between ‘killing’ + ‘letting die’
Morally equivalent, equal responsibility
Active or passive?
JAMES RACHELS
HELGA KUHSE
Nazi Germany
Conclusion
APPLICATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES TO EUTHANASIA
NATURAL LAW
Doctrine of double effect c
Precept of preservation of life
Value of life
Prevents achieving telos
Secular societies
What is ‘natural’?
Blurred distinction
SITUATION ETHICS
Agape
Personalism
Pragmatism
Positivism
Relativism
Eight page booklet : define keywords, Latitude/Longitude map skills, a SPAG exercise about Russia, space for pupils to analyse Russia's citizenship policy, a moral dilemma based on renewing the UK's nuclear weapons, a page to write about the pupil's photo of Russia and finally a chance to research and design a Russian doll