Learning and Teaching Materials Archive
ABCs of Religion in Schools
This activity encourages teachers to teach students about world religions as an integrated part of academic life. The activity stresses maintaining neutrality, keeping the class academic, teaching about the faiths behind certain holidays, and focusing on respect inquiry.
Celebrating Connections
This activity has students look at various religious traditions and celebrations to find common understanding and differences among them. This activity will involve three classroom periods and also some homework for the students. The class will be divided into groups … Continue reading
Faith and Belief
The Channel 4 Faith and Belief site contains information about the different religions and their festivals. It also includes a map over the spread of religion across the globe. It explains the history of the many religions, as well as … Continue reading
The Story of India
The Story of India offers educational resources for teachers wanting to use the DVD (that can be bought through the website) and the rich content on this web site in their classrooms. The lessons have been designed for high school … Continue reading
Holiday Stereotyping Activity
This activity allows students to explore how people often stereotype one another based on one’s clothing. The class is split into two, and each group will have to answer certain questions in regards to the image of a Santa hat … Continue reading
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
“The following draft of human responsibilities seeks to bring freedom and responsibility into balance and to promote a move from the freedom of indifference to the freedom of involvement. If one person or government seeks to maximize freedom but does … Continue reading
Im Human, Too
This activity asks students to identify certain beliefs about “their group” that are offensive and then provide positive ways to handle encounters with such remarks. First, students need to identity what group they each belong to.
Thutong Curriculum Learning Space: Religion Studies
This website contains materials and tools teachers can use to createa a syllabus to teach about world religions. Documents on the site’s homepage include sample exam questions and answers for Grade 12 to test students’ knowledge of Buddhism, Judaism, African … Continue reading
Enseignement Biblique et Interreligieux Romand
’Enbiro – biblical teaching and interrelgious Romand – is a publishing private non-profit. Specialized in the teaching of history and knowledge of religions, it has the primary mission of producing materials for the cantons fo Vaud, Freiburg, Valais, Jurg, and … Continue reading
Exploring ultimate question
Staff at William Farr had been seeking for an inspirational way to introduce philosophy and religious ethics in RE. The key concept of meaning, purpose and truth in the revised programme of study provided timely inspiration. ‘We wanted to develop … Continue reading