Resource - AQA Families and Households anagrams: Sheets with anagrams on, 2nd page has the answers for teachers. Useful for a starter, end of term etc.
Resource - AQA Familes and Households pictionary: Words/phrases. Need printing out onto card, laminating and cutting into individual phrases. Dividing class into teams, each one takes it in turn to take a word (unseen by others) and draw on the board
Resource - Postmodernity & the family quiz - who said it: Postmodernity & the family quiz - who said it
AQA AS sociology
Answered using mini white boards. Goes alongside a card sort activity
Resource - AQA GCSE family dominoes whole group: the idea is each person has a laminated domino which has a question and an answer but they don't match. it can be used to revise key teaching points or keywords.
Resource - Functions of the Family (SCLY1) Functionalism: Functions of the Family (SCLY1) - Functionalism
A powerpoint. I gave each of my students an A3 sheet and asked them to split the sheet into 3 sections, Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism and
Resource - Functions of the Family (SCLY1) - Marxism: Functions of the Family (SCLY1) - Marxism
A powerpoint. I gave each of my students an A3 sheet and asked them to split the sheet into 3 sections, Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism and write on the
Resource - AS AQA Compare and Contrast of perpsectives: I used this as an activity after teaching three perspectives on the family. I have adapted it and used it with other modules at both AS and A2.
Resource - AS Sociology of the Family AQA (quick tests): This has been adapted using another person's work. They are test which can be quickly adapted to test knowledge and track the learning of students. I will add more as I along
Resource - Key Sociologists for Families: AQA SCLY1: A list of most of the Sociologists that appear in the Trobe text book with a description of what each of them did.
Resource - AQA Family - Domestic Division of Labour: This is a quick essay plan that I made for my students to help them organise themselves on the topic of division of Labour.
Resource - AQA AS Families and Households: This is an evidence bank I have devised for my students. It details the key studies we have examined and presents them in a fairly concise manner. My students found it helpful so hopefully
Resource - AS Sociology; make up a sentence: For unit 1 of AQA specification; Families and Households. Links to perspectives on Families. Students work in groups to make up sentences including the words on list. Sentences have to be sociological
Resource - The Family and the Division of Labour PowerPoint: A-Level Sociology PP: The Family and the Division of Labour.
Ideal for groups focussing on the 'family' option of AQA Unit One.
Looks at apsects of Talcott Parsons' expressive/instrumental roles
Resource - Is this a family or not activity: A variety of images of households and families - students are to decide whether they are a family or not and why - leads into a great discussion of how do we define family and evaluating sociologists
Resource - Family - domestic violence stats: a powerpoint giving a range of statistics which could be used as evidence for the 'dark side of the family' or critical perspective
Resource - Family - reasons for rising divorce rate workbooklet activity: I go through the first few pages as a class and then split the class into groups, allocating 2-3 reasons for rising divorce rates to each group - they then have to present this to the rest of the clas
Resource - Family - continuum line on divorce: Students write their names on a post-it and stick it onto the continuum line where they think is appropriate to answer the question. Teacher then asks students to justify why they put their name at th
Resource - Family - childhood image starter: look at the images and describe what each shows about the different types of childhood experienced - can start a discussion on whether childhood is socially constructed
Resource - Family: revision cards (SCY1): Helpful set of revision cars to cut out and keep from sociology.org. Summarises different theoretical approaches to 'the family'. Useful for AQA SCY1.
Resource - AQA AS Families and Households: Functionalism: A powerpoint focusing on functionalist views of the family. This is my first year teaching Sociology so any feedbakc would be appreciated
Resource - AQA GCSE Family Decline in Fertility worksheet: Simple worksheet for students to complete about the delcien in fertility - what are the reasons for it and what are the effects on the family and society
Resource - Family Diversity and Modernism (New Right): A powerpoint with activities about modernist perspectives of family diversity including Functionalism, New Right and Robert Chrester.
Resource - Write down 3 - Family Revision Starter: I use this as a starter to revise Family and Households. Each question should represent a typical 6 mark exam question.
I give the students 30 seconds to write down 3 answers, then they have 2 minu
Resource - AQA Families and Households revision: I have done this for the first time and I am going to give it to my students as an A5 revison booklet. I have condensed the sociology AS for AQA Collins book by selecting the different sociological pe