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Marina had this idea:
My idea is ...using Waiting for Superman and First grader. It shows the true education systems in different countries. Waiting for Superman particularly is fab, after introducing Functionalism and...		 26/01/12
daphnegibbs had this idea:
My idea is ...to link sociology A level topic on the Relationship between religous beliefs and Social Change and stability with Y7's study of Shanty Towns in Brazil and the 'religous' attitudes to...		 20/01/12
keith had this idea:
My idea is the use of music to enagage students in their learning...have created cd tracks on most of the sociology themes.... personal favourite Neil Young Crime in the City...showing my age I know...		 22/11/11
Rachel Boston had this idea:
My idea is ...use the protest camp outside Saint Paul's Cathefral as a basis for discussion around where the Church of England should stand on capitalism, greed, poverty etc. Fits well with the 'can...		 2/11/11
Rachel Boston had this idea:
My idea is ...use the BBC series on demography (based around the 7 millionth child being born) to make the demography topic in F&H a bit more interesting. It has interesting clips and stats on there....		 2/11/11
Peter Riley had this idea:
Britain's Child Beggars - Panorama programme on tonight (19/10/11) - Could be good to explain the Social Construction of Childhood....		 19/10/11
Peter Riley had this idea:
If you are introducing a new topic or definition, I ask my students to write some ideas on a post-it and stick it to the board. Once everyone has stuck their post-it up I look through the answers and...		 15/09/11
Claire Wells had this idea:
My idea is ... look up UK feminista - third wave of feminism?...		 23/08/11
Simon Knight had this idea:
Little online infographic 'how many households are like yours' (for NY city, but still interesting): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/19/nyregion/how-many-households-are-like-yours.html...		 30/06/11
Sabrina Mootoosamy had this idea:
My idea is using skittles to teach sampling techniques...		 13/06/11
Vicky Hindle had this idea:
SlideRocket is a great presentation tool. You can also upload existing PowerPoints and improve animations - and it's free!  ...		 12/06/11
Helen Gibb had this idea:
My idea is watch poor kids on bbc i player 11pm 7th june .Really useful for inequality and really sad .Includes data such as over a million British homes are unfir to live in....		 7/06/11
Daniela Reiter had this idea:
My idea is ... when covering the mass culture debate for Mass Media, use the storylines of various operas. Elite theorists argue that high culture, like opera, represents superior values and...		 7/06/11
James Strahan had this idea:
My idea is ...to look at lonely hearts ads in newspapers for content analysis. You can analyse these in terms of quantative data (how many times GSOH is used etc) or qualitative in terms of how well...		 22/05/11
James Strahan had this idea:
My idea is ...to do sociology noughts and crosses. Get them playing an ordinary game of noughts and crosses then get one half of the class outside or prime them beforehand that halfway through they...		 22/05/11
Liz Mensah had this idea:
I was doing a lesson on Marxism and religion and was thinking of a way I could get my students to consolidate their knowlede when I came up with the idea of the Marxist hymn or Marxist rap. I told...		 18/05/11
Rachel Jones had this idea:
Whent he students got the January exam result I asked them to write a letter to themself about how they felt that day, and what they needed to do. Some were so happy- "I worked hard and I got an...		 10/05/11
James Strahan had this idea:
My idea is ..Jenga can be really good for illustrating the basic concepts of Functionalism e.g every part relies on the other being in place, take away one like the 'cornerstone' of the family and...		 10/05/11
Katie Allan had this idea:
My idea is ...The recent channel 4 documentary 'Katie Pipers beautiful friends' is really good for lots of disability topics - stereotyping, media representation, identity etc...		 5/05/11
Sarah Senior had this idea:
My idea is ...Use the WWII pilots sketch from the Armstrong and Miller Show to introduce Postmodernism...		 8/04/11
Peter Riley had this idea:
Demography - Andrew Marr looked at The British Census and changes around Britain, such as average life expectancy. Could be used for a wide range of topics in Sociology. I will be using it for...		 28/03/11
Helen Gibb had this idea:
watch the british at work bbc 2 last weeks was really good for inequality and change in the workplace.the 80 s tonight...		 24/03/11
Helen Gibb had this idea:
To demonstrate benefits of on going revision and starting early revision. And to do something fun before a boring learning or practice question lesson. All the students have loads of balls of paper...		 16/03/11
Simon Knight had this idea:
Excellent article on divorce from guardian (text copied from my tweet): #Divorce rates, 1858 to now #marriage #family #sociology #del #demography #changing.family via @guardian...		 17/02/11
Katie Allan had this idea:
My idea is ...use an episode of my big fat gypsy wedding to illustrate subcultures within a dominant culture. Also can get students thinking about the values that underpin the norms in the culture...		 31/01/11
Laura Fowler had this idea:
My idea is ...go to bbc.co.uk/labuk This is a survey being done by Mike Savage investigating class in 2011. based on levels of cultural capital. If your students are over 16 they can take part in...		 26/01/11
stuart_wakefield had this idea:
Some songs that help emphasise points.  You can you tube most of these. Fear by Sia, good for showing the negative effects of the family and of close relationships. It Says Here - Billy Bragg,...		 21/01/11
Michele Scott-Akanbi had this idea:
My idea is ... because education is very topical at the moment get group of students to do a presentation each week (have I got News for you style) on what has happened this week in education and the...		 20/01/11
Mark Edwards had this idea:
This is not my original idea but it a very useful one to tell students when revising methods. In order to exaluate any method they must remember the word PERVERT and what each letter stands...		 16/01/11
Simon Knight had this idea:
I'm teaching the research skills part of AQA AS. I'm trying to address positivism?/interopretivism, secondary/primary, PET, and qual/quan via the question "was my education worthwhile?" to tie them...		 14/01/11
Cheryl Hedges had this idea:
Need to keep students engaged and on task? try sociology bingo. Produce bingo cards using website tool - just search bingo cards. You input about 25 concepts - offer a bar of chocholate for full...		 11/01/11
Simon Knight had this idea:
Lifecourse analysis and family diversity. I asked students to create a line with 'Youth' at one end and 'OAP' at the other, then add other ages (roughly) and decisions which might be made at that...		 6/12/10
Simon Knight had this idea:
I had some brilliant things back from this task which I set after an open evening (long long day).  Some of them highlighted and annotated the articles in various colours for different theorists...		 6/12/10
eve mason had this idea:
monopoly...		 3/12/10
Pamela Beddow had this idea:
My idea is use the film White Man's Burden to explore issues of race, stereotyping, themes within the AS family unit. It stars a young(er) John Travolta and reverses the status quo with black people...		 22/11/10
Pamela Beddow had this idea:
My idea is to use the initials SPERM to look at reasons behind patterns and trends in different social phenomena e.g. rise in divorce can have Social, Political, Economic, Religious, Moral reasons...		 22/11/10
Helen Gibb had this idea:
when teaching positivism versus interpretivism or is sociology a science show the first 10 mins or so of dead poet society up to just after when he gets them to rip the pages out of the books.then do...		 13/11/10
LJPierce had this idea:
My idea is ...create sociology tangerines, students divide a circle into 8 segments. Select one segment and write a key sociologists or concept. Every segment must link to the previous one and each...		 28/10/10
Louise had this idea:
My idea is ...to play snakes and ladders to show social mobility and to show how easy it is for people of all classes to go up and down the classes....		 20/10/10
Debi Hardie had this idea:
My idea is ...use Full Monty film to recap on a number of different sociological themes...		 15/10/10
Sarah Hanson had this idea:
My idea is ...SCLY4 - take students to see 'Chicago' the musical to teacher women, crime and the Chivalry factor....		 7/10/10
Sarah Hanson had this idea:
My idea is ...use the song 'Uprising' by Muse for Religion, Neo Marxism and Social Change - mainly Maduro and Liberation Theory. Students could make a 'pop' video using windows movie maker (either...		 7/10/10
Peter Riley had this idea:
Functionalism and Religion - For my last lesson I showed the film Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) and asked them to apply functionalism to the film. If you haven't seen the film before it's about a small...		 17/09/10
gill ries had this idea:
My idea is ...once a year make a true or false quiz where all the answers are true: esp good for simplifying a difficult theory or topic....		 16/07/10
joanne Tattersall had this idea:
search for the mark steel lectures on youtube.  The Karl Marx lecture is excellent for the theory and methods module on the AQA specification....		 15/07/10
Mark Souter had this idea:
My idea is ... to drill some key concepts in AQA Wealth, Poverty and Welfare via 'Quizbusters' I've used past mark schemes (and a little input of my own!) Here are the...		 18/04/10
Mark Souter had this idea:
My idea is ... to drill some key concepts in AQA Wealth, Poverty and Welfare via 'Quizbusters' I've used past mark schemes (and a little input of my own!) Here are the...		 15/04/10
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to use a diamond 9 activity on reasons for increase in divorce numbers (Family, GCSE). Here: http://classtools.net/widgets/diamond9_1/4dUay.htm...		 31/03/10
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to get students to arrange my policy timeline in an ICT lesson/at home as a quiz: http://classtools.net/widgets/timeline_5/cbWjP.htm...		 31/03/10
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Thats Life I have now been doing this activity for about 2 months we do it at the start of every lesson and the students love it.I only do an up down about wealth and it is only life events that...		 19/03/10
Helen Gibb had this idea:
To help embed concepts of inequality e.g. how random life events can mess everything up for people. How the start you get really matters. What social factors contribute to a happy...		 15/01/10
Eugene Spiers had this idea:
My idea is using Twitter to engage students. I am sure others are doing this already but please follow me www.twitter.com/MrESpiers, @MrESpiers and/or search and use tags #yr12soc and #yr13soc...		 11/01/10
Cmglsk had this idea:
My idea is ...Borat scene 20 is a good example to show students an example of a Pentacostal religion....		 16/12/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
If you have not watched it yet the John Prescot north south divide was very good as an intro to class or inequality....		 16/10/09
john greenaway jones had this idea:
Did this today with disillusioned A2 group. It's a mixture of Richard and Judy's 'You say we pay' and never mind the buzzcocks final round. Get a range of concepts/theories/studies of what you've...		 21/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
The Street My idea is that if you missed the episode of The Street by Jimmy McGovern that dealt with racism then you should try to  watch it A.S.A.P.I think it was episode 4 or 5.It was an in...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
  Students write a lonely heats add as a stereotypical person might or a person with prejudices. As an intro to discussion of how culture affects prejudicial attitudes and looking at more...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
My idea is :- I heard about This on the radio. There exists apparently such a thing as a lending library of stereotypes. If you live in the great city of London I believe you can order yourself (from...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Improving Schemes of work I find it’s a good idea to go  through all my  revision notes  at this time of year and reflect on the activities and last min handouts I used at...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Key rings for prizes This year I made key rings with freuds  face on for prizes. You get the key rings from Hobbycraft the transparent type.I photocopied a sheet with about 20 little pics of...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Lollipops Buy the cheapest lollipops you can find in the holidays, to use as prizes.They are less tempting to yourself than chocolate they are cheap and they keep them quiet. I know Mandy Wood ...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Recipe for an essay Students re write their essay plan as recipe to try to get across the idea of proportions eg 5grms of intro including….. 30 grms of  evidence to...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Students review the review   I take a picture of the students trying to look like journalists sporting chewing pens and sporting clipboards. I have a wall display called students review the...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Whenever I get an idea for a new activity I code it Red  Really fun for them a lot of planning for me. Something they wont forget. An event Yellow A staple but fun classroom...		 3/09/09
john greenaway jones had this idea:
The cards for the game !!...		 31/08/09
john greenaway jones had this idea:
THis is a board gane to help check learning. All you do is think up a range of questions about a topic. Put students into groups of 4. Player 1 asks a question, player 2 answers it, player 3...		 31/08/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
A speed dating variation to explore culture and can be used as an ice breaker. I give the students a list that says things like Attitudes to: religeon soap operas politics sports importance of...		 31/07/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
my idea is to start off inequality have a game of loaded monopoly. what to do is let 3 peolple start off with loads more property than the others.make one super rich and 2 others a bit better off ie...		 31/07/09
Hannah Connellan had this idea:
My idea is ...Football. Divide the class in 2 - give them the same material - page of text book or article. - Tell them they have to come up with questions and answers for the other team - the harder...		 11/07/09
Juliette Massey-Smith had this idea:
My idea is ..."Pass the question", an excellent plenary activity I got from teachers.tv: it is like "pass the parcel" - music on, pupils pass an envelope with quetions in it, when music stops, the...		 1/07/09