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History of World Religions
First graders listen to a variety of Noah's Ark, based on the story in the Old Testament. They hear another "flood story" for comparison.
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Religions and Mentors: Making Cultural Comparisons
Students compare the Tirthankara of Jain religious stories and compare it to mentors who appear throughout Western stories. Studentsl create a narrative or a portrait in honor of a mentor of his or her own.
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Creating a Place of Contemplation Based on Hindu Temple Architecture
Learners study the architecture and decoration of Hindu temples, compare them with, and apply them to, a place of contemplation they will design for themselves.
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Cultural Universals Scavenger Hunt
Students search the web for three NON-WESTERN pictoral examples of each cultural universal. Students copy the photos onto a disc and arrange them using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. Students title each universal and add a caption.
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Africans and African Americans
Students complete small group tasks related to racism as it applies to African Americans, African immigrants, and white immigrants. Through discussion of their findings, students explain of challenges in society that African immigrants...
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The Patriot Act: What Is the Proper Balance Between National Security and Individual Rights?
Pupils discuss the Patriot Act and are given questions at the end of the lesson to respond to.
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Columbian Contexts
High schoolers explore geo-political and economic contexts for the European Renaissance journeys of exploration, including those of Columbus, create cartographic symbols, and add those symbols to a print-out of Ptolemy's map.
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Magnificent Mandalas
Students examine the principle of radial symmetry and apply it to an original mandala design. They draw a design using organic and geometric shapes, repeating the design symmetrically around the paper.
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GODDESS WORSHIP IN A MODERN PERSPECTIVE
Students examine careers that are not traditional for their gender.
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Multicultural Multimedia Holiday Project
Twelfth graders investigate a holiday of a major religion. They conduct research, develop a timeline of the origin of the holiday to the present, and create a Powerpoint presentation of their research.
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Unit on Religion and Globalization
In this religion lesson, young scholars examine the role of religion and globalization. They discover the differences in attitudes toward globalization in different religions. They also examine how globalization has helped to spread...
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Fitness
Fourth graders determine how to design regular and semi-regular tessellations of the plane. They develop the ability to demonstrate why a tessellation covers the plane in this series of lessons.
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Belief Systems Along the Silk Roads
Students reflect on similarities and differences among belief systems. Using excerpts of translated religious texts, they organize these quotations into broad themes. The quotations will be posted on a Silk Roads map as reminders of how...
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The Million Man March
Students investigate the founding and applications of having The Million Man March while writing about the founder Louis Farrakhan. They communicate the intentions of the march that included the responsibility men are to take for the...
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Trekking to Timbuktu
Students view a television show to provide a context for conducting research into the location and culture of Timbuktu. The students complete a report on the subject in the form of a research paper.
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Refugees' Experiences in Countries of Asylum: "What's in a name"?
Ninth graders examine the term stereotype. In this Current Events lesson, 9th graders analyze posters on racism. Students watch news reports on racism and stereotyping.
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