9 November 2012
Links to resources, events and reviews featured in TES this week
A cross to bear, but not in public?
Recommended resources:
Key stage 1 - Sacred symbols
- Khat shares a scheme of work introducing pupils to the signs and symbols of different religions.
Key stage 2 - Symbols of our world
- Try a Teachers TV video exploring symbols in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and everyday life.
Key stage 3 - Symbols of identity
- Citizenship Foundation shares a lesson about the meaning symbols have to individuals.
Key stage 4 - Secular exclusion
- ‘A secular society should not prevent people practising their religious beliefs.’ Students can debate this statement in a lesson from instituteofideas.
Key stage 5 - Burqa ban
- Cecr asks their students whether the Burqa should be banned, in a post-16 RE lesson.
Physics fun
TES partner Cyberphysics shares over 150 resources for all ages on radioactivity, forces, energy and more.
Date for your dairy: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Encourage young entrepeneurs and sharpen students’ business sense next week with a wide range of resources on TES.
Stickers save time
Vmarsden shares several sticker designs to save you time when marking.
Assembly of the week: International Day of Tolerance (November 16)
- Narijagrit shares an assembly focusing on human rights.
- For an assembly for every of the term, check out the TES assembly-a-day collection.
Top 10 Top Interfaith
Resources to teach pupils about interfaith values.
'If you have a novel idea for the classroom – or the solution to a knotty teaching problem - we'd love to hear about it.' Please email ideas to our Resources editor
What else?
- See an outline of DurgaMata’s cave painting workshop.
- Check out more of DurgaMata’s resources on TES.
- For a scheme of work on early man, see potatosoup’s topic plan.
What else?
- Explore the creationism debate, from religious and scientific perspectives. Try rebeccastothers’ lesson.
- BBSRC shares a comprehensive booklet on ethics and stem cell research.
What else?
- Catherine Paver shares a resource on ‘CadaDía– ‘Every Day’, a modern Christian song in Spanish.
What else?
- Investigate the effect 9/11 had on the world with 9/11 education programme’s resources, created in partnership with the Institute of Education.
- Explore identity and diversity with Daniel Willcocks’ case study about the proposal to build a mosque near ground zero.
What else?
- Try Teachers TV’s collection of persuasive writing starters.
- TroyCarnie shares a range of activities introducing pupils to persuasive writing techniques.
What else?
- Show pupils how maths and Islam connect, with mrsblacknell’s pop-up 3D nets and Islamic patterns lesson.
- Or try tp_1986’s lesson on Islamic art and symmetrical patterns.
