Learning and Teaching Materials Archive
Global Citizenship in the Whole School
This resource includes ideas for developing Global Citizenship themes throughout the Primary school. Activities are grouped into four broad areas: ideas for assemblies; lessons for the under 5s; lesson ideas for ages 5-7; and lesson ideas for ages 7-11.
Developing Rights
This resource helps students to think about the place of rights in their own lives, and see how young people from around the world are claiming theirs. The resource explores issues such as equality, the right to education, and the … Continue reading
The European Wergeland Centre Share & Connect Database
The European Wergeland Centre (EWC) has just launched Share & Connect, a database for experts in the field of Education for Human Rights, Intercultural Understanding and Democratic Citizenship, including the dimension of religion to all of these. Share & Connect … Continue reading
Christianity and Islam in the Context of Contemporary Culture
Christianity and Islam in the Context of Contemporary Culture: Perspectives of Interfaith Dialogue from Russia and theMiddle East. This joint UNESCO-Beirut and UNESCO-Moscow publication presents results of a joint international research project to provide a systematic cross-cultural analysis of fundamental … Continue reading
Creation Table
Creation Tables are useful ways into encouraging a sense of awe and wonder, learning about the created world and developing cross-curricular work on RE. The website provides activities for pupils and ideas for teachers to try and adapt for themselves.
Fundamentals of Buddhism
The website provides information on Buddhist teaching and covers for example the life of Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, Karma, rebirth, dependent origination, the three universal characteristics and the five aggregates.
Holocaust
Materials developed by Jewish Museum Educators can be used to supplement and enhance class' ongoing studies in history, art, and literacy.
Places of worship
The website offers series of resources looking at places of worship and how their buildings may be linked to what goes on inside.
Encyclopedia of Shinto
This website provides a comprehensive dictionary of Shinto, a Japanese religion, in English and some other foreign languages. It offers not only articles but also pictures and short videos.
Hearing the Other Side
“Hearing the Other Side” is a documentary film featuring conversations with young Muslims on issues of religious identities, women's concerns and media, following Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's assassination in the Netherlands. Reflections by the youth of Moroccan and Turkish … Continue reading