Starters and Plenaries for AS and A Level AQA Religious Studies
Dive into the key issues and debates of the 2016 specification with a huge variety of creative activities.
Starters grab attention; plenaries challenge students, while both promote discussion, explanation, application and critical thinking skills so students can learn to deeply analyse the information they have been taught.
- Pick-up-and-teach activities – no additional preparation needed
- Engaging and visual – tasks for every topic appeal to and motivate students with different learning styles, while extension tasks stretch more-able students!
- Versatile – students can tackle activities individually or in pairs/groups
- All answers provided – great for AfL and speedy peer- or self-assessment
Plus! Includes detailed teacher’s notes for ease of use and to maximise learning.
Easy-to-use activities to help active learning and stimulate interest and discussion... should capture students' attention
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What do teachers say about this resource? (9168)
There are a good mixture of activities here and I think they would be particularly useful for larger classes to have on the board or desk as they enter and for lower ability classes. I like the variety of activities, it isn't just the same time of exercise multiple times it's lots of different types of activity, some very visual, some much more about practicing longer reading. Yes I feel this would enhance learning. It would be a useful refresher of previous content for classes, could also be useful in revision too. I think it would be a good starter for a debate and to get particularly weaker students thinking about a topic.
It was of a good standard, it was well presented and well laid out and gave some interesting inspirations... It would definitely enhance the learning of weaker students, in fact I could see this being used as the basic building blocks for a course booklet as it would not require much supplementing to get all the necessary content for a foundation student there with these sheets. They would be useful as starters and plenaries but some would actually fill most of a 45 minute lesson with discussion. I could also see these being used to help with revision sessions in the run up to the exam and most require a recap of previous knowledge.