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The Religious Studies Lesson Box whiteboard teaching package includes:
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:
1. A set of GCSE PowerPoint based presentations covering all lesson topics shown below. Perfect for introducing the core content and for revision. Includes unique Lesson Box features to create a lesson to suit each class. Activity buttons reveal starter tasks, discussion points, unit recap, class activities and extension tasks. All content can be changed live without closing the presentation. Select talking avatars to give extra information and generate discussion. Keyword definitions revealed and linked to printable vocabulary worksheets. Store your lesson plans within the presentation.
 2. A linked set of Revise and Test presentations to reinforce and assess learning that now include: A narrated video summary of each topic to use prior to the test. PowerPoint based formal tests with printable question and answer sheets. Change and save to match each teaching group or student.
3. A fully licenced network or VLE version of both the above products. Perfect for anywhere learning even on mobile devices.
 plus flash tutorials, full support, full site licence. All elements can be customised (even the avatar input)


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The Content of the Religious Studies Products.
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:

1. Life Issues and Human Rights
The units are:
Life & Death, Rights and Equality. These units explore sensitive but relevant issues including the sanctity of life, the image of God, when does life start? contraception, embryo research, euthanasia, capital punishment, human rights, animal rights and prejudice.
2. Religion, Marriage and Relationships
The units are Sexual Ethics and Marriage. The units include sex and marriage form a religious standpoint including Christian teaching and original sin, attitudes to marriage, the family, divorce, gay marriage and marriage and the priesthood.
3. Work, Wealth and Charity
The units are: Money and Charity, Money Ethics, The Golden Rule, Work and Rest. These units include biblical attitudes to money including the root of all evil, the parable of the rich fool, the poor, caring for others, the attitudes of other religions to charity and money, issues about the morality of money, consumerism, business, the Golden rule for Christians and other major religions, work and the Sabbath.
4. War and Religion
The units are: Religious Attitudes, Morality of War, Anti War and Holy War. These units include examples of seemingly conflicting attitudes to war in the Bible, the differences between the Old and New Testaments, questions about why nations go to war, whose side God is on and the concept of a just war, genocide, pacifism, Martin Luther King, nuclear weapons and Holy war.
5. The Big Question
The units are: Is there a God? For God, Against God and Beliefs. These units cover the debate about the existence of God form individual belief to the design argument, first cause, the experience of God argument, arguments against God including suffering and scientific views, belief form experience, revelation, the nature of God, Satan, and life after death.
6. The Natural World
The units are: Creation, Science & Religion and Stewardship. These units include creation beliefs of the major religions, scientific explanations and Darwinism, how religion has influenced our attitudes towards the natural world and the idea of stewardship.
7. The Church
The units are: The Building, Variation, Sacraments, Events. These units include the church as a building and its design, denominations, history, ecumenism, different types of worship, sacraments and the associated beliefs , holy communion, baptism, important Christian times of the year including Holy Week, and Christmas and pilgrimage.
8. The Life of Jesus
The units are: Christian Jesus, Time setting, His Life and Holy Week. The units include who was Jesus? how do we find out about Jesus, variation in the Gospels the Trinity, interpreting the Bible, the historical, geographical  and political setting, his life, miracles and teachings, the events leading up to the crucifixion and the empty tomb.