This is a lesson that introduces humanism and its core principles. It also explains the difference between atheism and humanism.
Includes:
WALTS and WILFS
Formative assessment
Home learning
Differentiation
L4L activities
This is a double lesson that looks at New Right perspectives on social policy. The book used is the Collins Y1 book.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
Exam question (this is the second in a series of lessons leading up to answering this question)
This lesson looks at funerals and their meanings in Christianity, Islam and Humanism.
Range of activities with differentiation.
Textbook used is the new WJEC 9-1 book.
This is a scheme of learning for KS3 Geography on water:
Water Cycle
Water Usage
Water Scarcity
Access to Sanitation - skills lesson on choropleth maps
WaterAid/Solutions to the water problem
Revision
Please note: this is for an overview of lessons so does not include the resources mentioned on them. I do go into great depth with my SOL so you will be able to create your own lessons and resources based on them.
This SOL uses WALTs and WILFs and all activities are explicitly linked to the WALTs. I have also added in checking of learning/AFL as that is a big focus at my school. Home learning and task marking (extended writing) opportunities are highlighted.
This lesson was created as a ‘lighting fires’ lesson for Y13 IB Social Anthropology, but could be used for taster sessions for the subject/introduction to the course.
Please note, the extracts mentioned are from Joy Hendry’s Introduction to Social Anthropology book. However, you can substitute this information on different cultures with extracts from ethnographies you have/information online.
Covers some basic concepts and theories vital to the course. Includes:
Engaging first lesson
Marxism, Functionalism
Structure Vs Agency
Inequality
Nature vs Nurture
Norms and Values
Assessments, home learning, WALTS, WLFS, checking, activities
Part of the Social Stratification Unit. Retrieval practice/relearning of the class system. Looks at Karl Marx and his views on polarisation of the classes etc. You will need the AQA textbook for this lesson.
A mini revision guide created about global warming for KS3.
Includes:
Global warming, greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases
Physical and human causes of global warming
Effects of global warming
Carbon footprint
How individuals, governments and businesses can reduce carbon emissions
LEDCs and MEDCs use of renewable energy and fossil fuels
Also has questions to test students and frame their revision.
This lesson is a single-period lesson on race and ethnicity. Includes - key terms, discussion activities, a short clip and note-taking. Please note - you will need the textbook for this lesson.
Using a number of sources, this lesson looks at the link between ethnicity and crime rates, with a focus of institutional racism.
The book referred to in the slides is the Hodder textbook.
This is a fully differentiated lesson that looks at evidence and explanations of ethnicity and educational achievement.
Includes:
WALTS and WILFS
Home learning
DARTS
Formative assessment
Exam practice
This is a lesson that looks at what it is like to live in material deprivation in the UK. The photocopy mentioned in the PPT is page 21 of the Napier Press sociology text book.
This resource is a collation of the exam questions asked in the new AQA Sociology GCSE course with the required standards for the highest level for each question.
Lesson looks at forgiveness with a focus on Gee Walker, Sally Dowler and Julie Nicholson. Students complete fact files for each mother and suggest reasons why their opinions differ. Religious teachings included. Long answer question at the end.
This lesson if the first of 2 lessons on how William controlled England.
Students first of all look at problems faced by William and suggest how he could solve these problems. There is a demonstration of the feudal system before students illustrate this in their books and describe the system. They then judge the effectiveness of the feudal system.
This lesson is differentiated: Blue (most able), Yellow (able-mid), Green, (least able).
This lesson looks at Muslim and Christian attitudes to contraception, differing views in each religion and types of contraception.
Taught over a double period with extended writing opportunity.
If you wish to give students extra notes after the Islam video then photocopy information from a textbook. I have used pages 80-1 in the EDEXCEL Religious Studies Religion and Life Christianity & Islam text book.
This lesson introduces students to In Search of Respect. Context of the ethnography is completed, what is respect, migration, a piece of writing based on P1 Q3 and how El Barrio has changed over time.
You will need a copy of In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois.