Starters and Plenaries:
Students draw a line from the symbol to the religion.
Play "A Question of Sport" Two teams. A + B. Draw 9 boxes with Questions in. Cover boxes with numbers 1 - 9. Team chooses a number. Question is revealed. 2 Points awarded for right answer. 1 - if it goes to the other side.
Play theme tune - Mission Impossible. In 3 minutes pupils are to come up with as many key points as they can from last lesson. Teacher has done the same on OHP. Uncover each point as pupils name them.
Imagine your house is on fire. What 6 things would you most want/would you rescue from your house and why?
Lollipop sticks with students names on to answer questions.
Anagrams of the names of Holy Books - or other RE vocabulary - put on the board.
Pupils bring in pictures of 20th Century examples of people who might be considered special. Stick pictures up and discuss why they are special. Vote on top one. Then pupils write about the person who is most special to them.
What places are special to you and why? Like a mystery bag - put together bags of pilgrimage from different religions or from within Christianity.
Cards produced with issues on. e.g. Capital Punishment, Abortion, Euthanasia, Nuclear War. Pupils draw out of bag. Then pick out of 2 cards for or against. They are given 5 mins. to prepare argument to support their position
Pupils draw a Venn diagram as below. Three religions studied are written in the outer shapes. Pupils decide on any concepts/vocabulary that is common to all three and write it in the centre.
Entering the classroom activity. Put Buddhist chant on. Provide pupils with Mandala. 10 mins. given to colour it in. Then questions are provided. How aware are they about what they've done and why they've done it? The best ones are chosen by class. Would the pupils who produced them be prepared if asked to tear them up. Why/why not?
Living Photographs/Picture. I.e.Picture of last supper e.g. Leonardo da Vinci 1. Make a Body sculpture showing this picture 2. What are the thoughts of the people in the photograph.
The Good Samaritan is cut into sentences and put on card. Pupils put the story into the right order (sequencing).
Give out an easy wordsearch and allow 3 minutes to "do" it. Pupil who has found the most words chooses another pupil and one word from the wordsearch. Second pupil must say what the relevance of the word is to Palm Sunday. That pupil then chooses another word and another pupil to explain the relevance of the word. Process is repeated until words are used up or lesson ends.
Class were split into RC/Anglican Orthodox/Baptist/Pentecostal - They researched and planned role plays and each group then did a role play to introduce the lesson concerned.
Provide topic/lesson vocabulary on separate numbered cards. Call out groups of numbers and ask pupils to suggest which card is the odd one out and why the reason they provide is the important part of the activity.
Written on the board is: Synagogue, bimah, torah, ark, nertamid, yad. Students write down/tick on the board words they are familiar with. At the end of the lesson the list is revisited in the plenary to see if all words are now known.
Bingo, with almost any topic.
Throwing ball as plenary to ask questions, good use of differentiation in this activity, i.e. can make questions easier and more difficult according to each student.
Lesson activities:
Story boards, i.e. Jesus life, Moses, Muhammad, Damascus Road...
Seasonal ideas, i.e. christmas, easter, lent...
Acronyms, to remember things i.e. Just War Theory
Email a believer (on R.E. online, http://pof.reonline.org.uk) can ask questions from students.
Debates, i.e. for abortion and against, can be given information or research.
Research a topic online and produce a poster on topic.
Highlight key words in a text.
Write notes on a video clip we have watched.
Euthanasia murder mystery activity.
Ask relevant questions i.e. Why are Miley Cyrus's actions considered to be wrong according to Islam?
Take a Bible and Qur'an verse on similar topic, get students to identify which religion they belong to and what do they mean, then compare meaning and how the religions differ and are similar.
Dalai Lama twitter page, consider what he has said. Do you agree/disagree? How do his views differ from other religions?
Memory game. Pupils in groups, numbered. Number 1 has to go up and get as much information from sheet as possible to write down, then number 2 has to go up and get more information to add to their mindmaps...
Write an article about the lesson we have done.
Bingo to help with keywords and their definitions.
Students draw a line from the symbol to the religion.
Play "A Question of Sport" Two teams. A + B. Draw 9 boxes with Questions in. Cover boxes with numbers 1 - 9. Team chooses a number. Question is revealed. 2 Points awarded for right answer. 1 - if it goes to the other side.
Play theme tune - Mission Impossible. In 3 minutes pupils are to come up with as many key points as they can from last lesson. Teacher has done the same on OHP. Uncover each point as pupils name them.
Imagine your house is on fire. What 6 things would you most want/would you rescue from your house and why?
Lollipop sticks with students names on to answer questions.
Anagrams of the names of Holy Books - or other RE vocabulary - put on the board.
Pupils bring in pictures of 20th Century examples of people who might be considered special. Stick pictures up and discuss why they are special. Vote on top one. Then pupils write about the person who is most special to them.
What places are special to you and why? Like a mystery bag - put together bags of pilgrimage from different religions or from within Christianity.
Cards produced with issues on. e.g. Capital Punishment, Abortion, Euthanasia, Nuclear War. Pupils draw out of bag. Then pick out of 2 cards for or against. They are given 5 mins. to prepare argument to support their position
Pupils draw a Venn diagram as below. Three religions studied are written in the outer shapes. Pupils decide on any concepts/vocabulary that is common to all three and write it in the centre.
Entering the classroom activity. Put Buddhist chant on. Provide pupils with Mandala. 10 mins. given to colour it in. Then questions are provided. How aware are they about what they've done and why they've done it? The best ones are chosen by class. Would the pupils who produced them be prepared if asked to tear them up. Why/why not?
Living Photographs/Picture. I.e.Picture of last supper e.g. Leonardo da Vinci 1. Make a Body sculpture showing this picture 2. What are the thoughts of the people in the photograph.
The Good Samaritan is cut into sentences and put on card. Pupils put the story into the right order (sequencing).
Give out an easy wordsearch and allow 3 minutes to "do" it. Pupil who has found the most words chooses another pupil and one word from the wordsearch. Second pupil must say what the relevance of the word is to Palm Sunday. That pupil then chooses another word and another pupil to explain the relevance of the word. Process is repeated until words are used up or lesson ends.
Class were split into RC/Anglican Orthodox/Baptist/Pentecostal - They researched and planned role plays and each group then did a role play to introduce the lesson concerned.
Provide topic/lesson vocabulary on separate numbered cards. Call out groups of numbers and ask pupils to suggest which card is the odd one out and why the reason they provide is the important part of the activity.
Written on the board is: Synagogue, bimah, torah, ark, nertamid, yad. Students write down/tick on the board words they are familiar with. At the end of the lesson the list is revisited in the plenary to see if all words are now known.
Bingo, with almost any topic.
Throwing ball as plenary to ask questions, good use of differentiation in this activity, i.e. can make questions easier and more difficult according to each student.
Lesson activities:
Story boards, i.e. Jesus life, Moses, Muhammad, Damascus Road...
Seasonal ideas, i.e. christmas, easter, lent...
Acronyms, to remember things i.e. Just War Theory
Email a believer (on R.E. online, http://pof.reonline.org.uk) can ask questions from students.
Debates, i.e. for abortion and against, can be given information or research.
Research a topic online and produce a poster on topic.
Highlight key words in a text.
Write notes on a video clip we have watched.
Euthanasia murder mystery activity.
Ask relevant questions i.e. Why are Miley Cyrus's actions considered to be wrong according to Islam?
Take a Bible and Qur'an verse on similar topic, get students to identify which religion they belong to and what do they mean, then compare meaning and how the religions differ and are similar.
Dalai Lama twitter page, consider what he has said. Do you agree/disagree? How do his views differ from other religions?
Memory game. Pupils in groups, numbered. Number 1 has to go up and get as much information from sheet as possible to write down, then number 2 has to go up and get more information to add to their mindmaps...
Write an article about the lesson we have done.
Bingo to help with keywords and their definitions.