URI Kids - Activities
URI Kids - Activities
Visual Voyages: Class Scrapbook
Objective:
For each student to focus on a particular
category within one religion. For students to be exposed to another religion
they don't know a lot about. To represent their category visually. To create a
class scrapbook of many categories with many religions.
Materials:
You will need many different visual image sources such as the Internet, books,
magazines, etc. You will also need something for the kids to put their pages in,
like a three ring binder.
The Lesson:
Each student should choose a category from one religion. For example: Jewish
leaders, Buddhist sacred spaces, etc. (See below for a full list). Then, the
student should look for visual representations of that category and create a
page for a scrapbook from the research they've done.
If you choose to focus on the five major religions, you could have the following
categories:
• Leaders
• Sacred Places and Spaces
• Symbols
• Holidays and Festivals
• Rites of Passage
There is no shortage of possibilities here. If you wanted to, you could add some
smaller religions and use the same categories. The idea is that when you finish,
you will have a representation of many different religions and how they are
similar or different under these universal themes.
Day one: Students choose categories. Teacher needs to monitor this
so that kids are doing different categories. A table on the board works well for
this. Begin researching the category.
Homework for this day: Finish researching.
Day two: Assemble pages in class. If necessary, students could
finish this as homework.
Have students put their pages in the book (a three ring binder works well). It
should be organized by category, not religion. That way, you see all of the
symbols pages together, and all of the leaders pages together, etc. After it is
assembled, pass it around for everyone to look at.
Follow-up/Assessment:
Students could try to guess which page was covering which category. Keep the
scrapbooks and throughout the unit you can use them as resources.