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This fun philosophy lesson is focused on ‘environmental ethics’: the branch of ethics that studies the moral relationship between humans and the natural environment. This multi-use session will help your students to explore how we should act towards the environment and the creatures that live in it. This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited. This philosophy session is useful as a part of your schools PSHE/SMSC provision and is of particular interest to biology teachers, geography teachers, teachers of environmental sciences and ethics teachers. It’s also a perfect resource for educators to use for ‘Earth Day’ (April 22nd). The session explores topics such as: Humanity’s relationship to nature Climate change and its implications Moral duties towards wildlife How to live an eco-friendly lifestyle Sustainable Societies The environmental impact of lifestyle choices The big question asked in this session is “To what extent is it climate change a problem that can be solved?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical and ethical questions such as: What is the single biggest threat to the health of our planet’s ecosystem at the moment? To what extent is spending time in natural environments important for maintaining good mental health? In terms of choosing a career: which careers and jobs cause the most harm, and which the least, to the environment? This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment and end-of-lesson reflection activities Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical and ethical claims such as: “It is never acceptable for a company to pollute a river”’ “Since an asteroid will one day destroy all life on earth: environmentalism doesn’t actually matter” “The basic drivers of climate change will not change – so humanity is doomed” “There are too many humans on this planet: it’s best not to reproduce and create more” and “Humans have a right to do with the planet whatever we want” The file is a non-editable PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required, just run the file and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session very easy!

This download contains an editable 50+ slide PowerPoint featuring the most important debates relevant to AS/A2 Economics students (using the new AQA specification). It also contains a ‘randomiser’ slide so that debate topics can be selected randomly. Debates take an ‘agree or disagree’ format: students are asked to move from one side of the room to the other depending on their response to the statements that appear. All topics are taken from the latest AQA Economics (7135, 7136) specification though this product is relevant to all KS5 teachers of the subject. A seperate debate generator has been created for the Business Studies specification: you can find it in our shop. This format allows teachers to foster debates and discussions between students, it can be helpful to ask students to justify their reasons and use sensible arguments. Questions you might ask include: “What is wrong with the other position in your view?”, “Why did you choose to stand where you’re standing?”, “Why do you think people disagree so much about this question?” It is best to encourage students to pick a side rather than float in the middle: but it can also be fun to allow students to change side as the debate progresses, so that students can try to persuade one another to move. This is a great resource to use at the end of lessons if you have a few minutes left, it can be used as an entire lesson or revision session. Check-out some of my most popular resources: .    GCSE Sociology Resources Complete Units (Whole Course) .  Philosophy for Children (P4C) The Ultimate P4C Resource Pack The Debating Society Toolkit Philosophy Boxes . Other Tools A3 DIRT Worksheet (15+ 5-star ratings!) KS3 RE Units

Give one of these three Christmas worksheets to your students and play any videos for them: instant lesson! These beautiful, double-sided, colour, A4 Christmas worksheets structure learning and encourage engagement. They are suitable for any subject or age-group: all you need is a video or a selection of videos suitable for the topic at hand!

A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Geology to use with KS3-5 students, featuring 60 well-presented questions, and an answer sheet. The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds. Fifty of the questions are all Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology of “fun facts”. Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5. Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.