Graphic Organisers: Hierarchies
Following posts on the Frayer Model and the 5-Points of the Star, Hierarchical Models are a further general variation that are worth adding to the list of graphic organisers available to teachers and students who want to explore different, more visual, ways of structuring information. Hierarchies – a top-down list involving a number of levels […]
Graphic Organisers: The 5 Points of the Star
A previous post outlined the basic ideas underpinning the graphic organiser, introduced an example of the genre (the Frayer Model) and teased the possibility of further examples of ready-made organiser templates (as opposed to the more free-form examples you can find in the Revision section here). So, in the spirit of actually trying to deliver […]
Graphic Organisers
I recently stumbled across the notion of graphic organisers while rummaging around on Pinterest, although it’s probably an idea most teachers will have come across or informally used. Venn diagrams or tables of information, for example, represent proto forms of graphical organisation. All this post suggests is that it’s possible to formalise these practices into […]
Sociology in Focus for A2: Crime Resources
A further set of free resources to complement the Sociology in Focus For A2 textbook, this batch relates to the Crime and Deviance option: Overview Map: An introductory map that provides a very general overview of the Module content. Revision Maps: These Unit Maps go into much more depth and detail about the content covered […]
Neo-Functionalism: Dragging “Family Functions” into the 21st Century
The “functions of the family” is an a-level course / exam staple and you can drag it out of the 20th century Murdock / Parsons duopoly by adding a neo-functionalist twist. For Swenson (2004), the focus is on adults as providers of a stable family environment for primary socialisation. This involves: 1. Roles conceived as […]
Sociology in Focus for AS: Family Resources
This second set of free resources for users of the Sociology in Focus For AS textbook covers the ever-popular Families and Households Module and includes the following: Overview Map: A basic spider diagram you can use if you want to give students a broad overview of the content to be covered in the Module. Revision […]
Sociology in Focus for A2: Methodology Resources
If you’ve bagged yourself a copy of the Sociology in Focus for AQA A2 textbook and you’re wondering what to do with it beside read it, help is at hand with the addition of the resources originally produced to complement and supplement the text. These, in no particular order, consist of: Overview Map: An introductory […]
Sociology in Focus for A2: Free Textbook
Sociology in Focus for A2 is, as you may have guessed, the companion volume to the previously-posted AS text and it’s no great surprise that its design and layout perfectly complements its AS counterpart. This includes the by-now standard colour-coded sections, lots of pictures, activities and questions that, at the time, were considered a quite […]
Sociology in Focus for AS: Culture and Identity Resources
Having previously posted a copy of the Sociology in Focus AS textbook, I thought it might be useful to throw-in a little additional something by way of the resources that were originally produced to accompany the text. While there’s nothing outrageously brilliant about the resources, you might find some – or indeed all – of […]
Free Textbook: Sociology in Focus for AS
For those of you with long(ish) memories, the original Sociology in Focus textbook first appeared in the mid-1990’s and I remember being quite taken by its novel(ish) attempt to reinvent “The Textbook” as something more than just a lot of pages with a lot of text. Although it did, with hindsight, actually have “a lot […]