Year 2 - Religious education
Reflecting on rules and choices
Choices: Do we need rules to live by?
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils consider a philosophical question: 'do we need rules to live by?' They answer this through first examining how many Jews and Christians frame an answer through the Ten Commandments. They then explore how dharma offers another way of living. Finally they look at humanist ideas.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how different people use rules to make good choices and reflect on your own worldview.
Key Notes
- Many religious and non-religious worldviews have ideas about making good choices.
- Christians, Jews and Hindus look to God whilst humanists look to humans to live well today and make good choices.
- Learning from other worldviews can help other people reflect on their own worldview.
Vocabulary To Learn
- worldview: the way you understand and live in the world around you
- choices: decisions we make about what we do or say
- God: a divine being that is worshipped by believers
- reflection: thinking about ideas and why you have them
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Everyone believes in God.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Many religious and non-religious worldviews have ideas about making good choices. Christians, Jews and Hindus look to God whilst humanists look to humans to live well today and make good choices.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'worldview'
the way you understand and live in the world around you.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Everyone believes in God. Correction: Some people believe in God, and some people don't. Everyone has their own way of thinking.
More Lessons In This Unit
Browse all guides in the Year 2 Religious education guide library.