essay planning - Evaluate Marxist Contributions to understanding of deviance A resource to use with students to help them structure answers more effectively. Main focus was to explore contrasting...
Resource - GCSE Key concept display social inequality: I have used these displays to show some of the key concepts linked to each topic. I have them displayed as flowers around my room and they have had a huge impact, the students refer to them all the ti
Resource - pressure groups: introduction to the role of pressure groups and activities based on the white Kidd and Wilson text for GCSE
Resource - AQA GCSE Crime Statistics: Covers arguments against the use of official statistics and the dark figure of crime
Resource - GCSE Mass Media revision notes: Some basic notes for GCSE Sociology - I used these for a couple of students who had missed lessons due to absence or whose notes has been eaten by the dog......!!!
Resource - GCSE AQA Measuring Crime: Pupils start off discussing which crimes they would report
look at official crime statistics
Book is AQA GCSE Sociology class text book
Resource - AQA GCSE norms, culture etc definitions lesson: AQA GCSE Unit 1 lesson based on key words such as norm, law, culture etc. Explores student ideas of normal behaviour - guaranteed to shock a little! I give students copies of the pictures for the task
Resource - Introduction to Methods GCSE: AQA GCSE Sociology-a good introduction to research methods using Xmas presents as an analogy for Year 10. I wrapped up a Monopoly board and they had to guess what it was by shaking it, guessing weight
Resource - GCSE Revision advice: General advice for the AQA unit 1 paper GCSE
I use SEXY paragraphs For 5 markers and SEX for 34 mark Q's
S = State a point E=Explain it X=eXample
Y = analYsis
Resource - OCR Unit 1B Revision Booklet: OCR GCSE Sociology. A revision booklet I created for the Unit 1 part B (Culture, Socialisation and identity). It contains key words, examples and some questions for the students to do.
Resource - Social inequality key words: GCSE social inequality key words with a little key words test sheet. I've uploaded this again as it didn't work the first time!
Resource - GCSE Media key words: GCSE Media key words list. It also includes a little key words test.
Resource - Newspaper powerpoint: For AQA GCSE Mass Media - Powerpoint on newspapers and decline in readership. It is useful if the students have bruoght in a selection of netional newspapers to do a comparison.
Resource - OCR GCSE Student speak markscheme: I have created several student friendly markschemes for my Year 10 and Year 11 students. This one is for the B672 paper
Resource - GCSE OCR B671 revisions materials: This is a comprehensive revision booklet I put together for the above "Sociology Basics" module my students sit in year 10.
Resource - GCSE OCR B671 revisions materials: This is a comprehensive revision booklet I put together for the above "Sociology Basics" module my students sit in year 10.
Resource - Gender roles at GCSE: Questions on gender roles related to the Movie 'Bend it Like Beckham' (Word Doc)
Resource - The Census 2011: Powerpoint based on resources from Schools census website and previous PP i had, I have ammended for GCSE.
Worksheets to follow.
Resource - GCSE theory: powerpoint for teaching basic theory. Also debate exercise on word available
Resource - GCSE Sociology Extra reading and studies: A Word document with details of books, movies and TV series that can be used for students to extend learning.
Thanks to all suggestions given on the disussion board; they have been very useful.
Resource - GCSE Sociology - Marriage: A lesson which examines different types of marriage, with an emphasis on arranged marriage and its advantages and disadvantages.
Resource - Welfare State Views GCSE Sociology: Lesson that follows on from The Welfare State Ppt. This one looks at the diff views on the Welfare State and Cameron's Big Society.
Resource - Model essay for G&T GCSE Sociology AQA: An example of an old spec model essay example... To what extent... are the poor to blame for being in poverty
Resource - Model essay for G&T GCSE Sociology AQA: An example of an old spec model essay example... To what extent... are the poor to blame for being in poverty
Resource - GCSE Social Inequality - Poverty: PowerPoint and worksheet to follow on experiences of poverty
Refers to AQA Sociology book by Wilson and Kidd
Resource - GCSE Education: Revision worksheet including cloze passage and match the term with the correct definition.
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 - AQA GCSE Mass Media Revision checklist: Revision checklist for the mass media module (AQA GCSE) Table is based on the wilson & Kidd textbook. Asks student to traffic light how confident they feel about each topic and write down what areas t
Resource - GCSE Social Experiments worksheet: Worksheet to go with the info sheet. I usually run this as a 'become the expert' activity in groups of 4.
Resource - GCSE Social Experiments info sheet: Four info sheets detailing some examples of social experiments. Each has the same example to start - for the teacher to model - then a different example for them to learn about to teach their peers.
Resource - GCSE Sociology Research Methods: This lesson was used as the first lesson in a RM SOW - it introduces what qualitative/quantitative and primary/secondary data and methods are. The students love the mindmap from memory (they work in g
Resource - Television powerpoint: AQA GCSE Mass Media - Basic powerpoint on Television and changes in viewing over recent decades.
Resource - Media socialisation: AQA GCSE Mass Media - Media socialisation powerpoint. Introduces theory and an activity using mamgazine front covers, work sheet also uploaded.
Resource - Media socialisation sheet: AQA GCSE Mass Media - Media socialisation sheet to go with powerpoint. Teachers should display a range of magazine covers around the room to allow students to compare different messages shown in diffe
Resource - Nature and Nurture for GCSE: A PowerPoint I created to introduce the idea of nature and nurture to my Year 10 GCSE students.
Resource - Riots August 2011: A powerpoint with clips, images and tasks aimed at provoking discussion and leading to individual work.
Aimed at GCSE but easily adapaptable.
NB: Specific focus on SE London as that is where i teac
Resource - Applying the perspectivess: Set of statements (about religion), pupils have to 1) rank the 'interest' the perspectives would have in the statement, and 2) explain what the top 2 ranked perspectives would say about the statement.
Resource - AQA GCSE sociology - research methods quiz: Does what it says on the tin - quiz on research methods. Although aimed at GCSE level could be adapted for A-level as well.
Resource - AQA GCSE sociology - intro to research methods: This is just a basic introduction to research methods, making reference to key terms and concepts (e.g. validity, reliability etc)
Resource - AQA GCSE sociology - poverty: PPT slides on poverty - aimed at the old spec, but could easily be adapted for new spec or A level.
Resource - GCSE AQA Sampling powerpoints: Powerpoint with animated slides showing the different sampling methods. These are modified from Tom H's resource on psychexchange here.
Resource - AQA GCSE Sociology: A basic PPT slide with on the welfare state. It's aimed at the old spec which is in its last year, but could be easily adapted for the new spec/A-levels etc.
Resource - AQA GCSE Education unit: Work sheets that support the education powerpoint I uploaded this sheet class and life chances
Resource - My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (subcultures) GCSE: For GCSE Sociology (I used this during Crime but could be done during Studying Society)
Uses a short YouTube video clip to get students to brainstorm what is sociological about My Big Fat Gypsy We
Resource - Subcultures inductive learning task MBFGW: GCSE Sociology - Subcultures (see My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding powerpoint to accompany this resource)
Photocopy enough for each group. Cut up the sources. Ask students to look for similarities, so tha
Resource - AQA GCSE: Education - a longish powerpoint that will cover the Education unit of the AQA GCSE. I will also publish the associated work sheets
Resource - GCSE Sociology; which social class?: For GCSE Sociology unit 2. Following work on poverty and the underclass (culture of poverty), students are asked to guess the social class based on page one. The answer can either be underclass or upp
Resource - GCSE Sociology: Ethnicity: Summary of some points on ethnicity for GCSE Sociology, unit 2
Resource - GCSE unit 1 revision: AQA GCSE unit 1 revision. PPT includes slides on Studying society, Education and Families.
Resource - GCSE essay structures, education: A sheet to help students think about how they structure their 12 mark questions. This sheet is based around an education question.
Resource - GCSE revision ppt - Mass Media: ppt that reviews key elements of mass media topic. used as part of our pre-exam review session.
Resource - GCSE Revision ppt - Crime and Deviance: powerpoint that reviews key questions from crime and deviance topic. used as part of pre-exam session on day of exam to recap focus of central questions.
Resource - OCR GCSE Youth revision booklet: A revision booklet I created from the OCR textbook for the section on youth. It's basically summarised and has some questions for students to do.
Resource - Intro to Sociology: A pack I use over the first week of AS, to introduce students to sociological thinking, and basic terms e.g. norms, roles, socialisation etc. Lots of thought-provoking activities. Would work for GCSE
Resource - AQA GCSE exam questions and answers for Crime, Media, and Power: This is a collection of 5 and 12 mark questions for the topics of Crime and Deviance, Mass Media, and Power on the AQA GCSE paper. For the 12 mark questions I have included outlines of arguments for a
Resource - Example 12 mark social inequality questions: For AQA GCSE. A list of example questions with some space for students to write down key ideas of what they would include.
Resource - GCSE AQA power revision: Keys terms to revise and examples of questions pupils could be asked on power.
Resource - GCSE AQA social inequality revision: Key terms and examples of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of social inequality
Resource - GCSE AQA crime & deviance revision: Key terms and examples of questions of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of crime and deviance
Resource - GCSE AQA mass media revision: key terms and examples of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of the mass media
Resource - Britain as a nation state: GCSE level notes on history of Britain as a nation state. Brief discussion of ideas around too big too small.Brief info on UK E.U. and nato
Resource - GCSE Mass Media Introduction: This is a PowerPoint used for the first lesson on Mass Media. You may need the Collins textbook for a couple of the activities or you could edit the activities/take them out.
Resource - GCSE education revision sheet: A quick activity based revision sheet to help GCSE students revise for the education topic.
Resource - Differences in educational achievement: This is a summary lesson which I used for revision. The page numbers refer to the Nelson Thornes GCSE book, but it can be used without it.
Resource - GCSE Unit 2 Revision Guide: This is a revision guide for GCSE sociology Unit 2. It covers crime and deviance, strat and power and politics.
Resource - GCSE OCR Unit 1 - Socialisation: A model answer to a 12 mark question on Peer group as an agent of socialisation.
Resource - GCSE AQA worksheet Agents of Social Control: Worksheet for students to examples of social control, examples of going against these, and how effective each is seen to be.
Resource - GCSE possible family question: A summary of possible questions based on AQA books+specimen and past paper
Resource - Education millionaire: Who wants to be a Millionaire game with questions for GCSE topic EDUCATION
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 - Media GCSE Hypodermic Model: Powerpoint looking at the Hypodermic Model - links to Bandura etc - originally made by someone else - but I'm not sure who.
Resource - AQA GCSE sociology research methods: Basic PPT outlining various research methods (e.g. longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies, interviews etc)
Resource - socialization: Short notebook presentation on socialization. The activity consisted in students reading studies on other types of socialization (eg Wolf men)
Resource - introduction to sociology rolling show: This is a power point with pictures of different aspects of sociology - could be used as an introduction to sociology.
Resource - GCSE what is sociology: Brief power point to get students thinking about concepts of social issues, social structures and social processes. The last slide (Pass the question) refers to an excellent plenary activity I got fro
Resource - You are the magistrate: Fun activity for GCSE students studying crime and deviance but can also be used to get A2 students talking!
Resource - gcse Power Lesson 1: For lesson one of the power topic 'WHAT IS POWER' for gcse yr 11 - Links to some videos also included in the slide!
Resource - poverty in the uk GCSE AQA: A worksheet with recent facts about poverty and pictures to match up
Resource - Studying Society AQA GCSE Sociology: PowerPoint Quiz: Key terms from the Studying Society module in Who wants to be a Millionnaire Quiz format!
Resource - GCSE AQA Observation: Powerpoint introducing observation advantages/disadvantages, etc.
Resource - GCSE AQA Ethics - 'acceptable/not?': Set of situations, first presented on slide & students must vote whether it was acceptable or not, and say why. This gives them the key words & 'strict' answers to ethical questions
Resource - GCSE AQA Questionnaires: Slides introducing questionnaires, advantages/disadvantages, & pilot study
Resource - AQA GCSE Stratified & quota sampling, worksheet: Not a great worksheet but an attempt to get students to see the difference between quota & stratified sampling (the book is not at all clear on this).
Resource - GCSE Introductory lesson: Tasks set up to inform pupils what sociology will be about.
Resource - Britain as a multicultural society: A series of questions for GCSE students to stimulate discussion of why Brtitain is a multicultural country.ie when did it all begin.In a number of basic classroom tasks to stimulate empathy.
Resource - gcse ethnicity and crime: Text from powerpoint.Basic gcse intro to topic.Handout will stand alone
Resource - Different types of education: A fun activity to get students exploring different types of school designed for GCSE students but easily adaptable for AS. Will need to collect some school prospectuses or an book ICT room