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Understanding Religious Clothing
Students explore the concept of religious clothing. In this Teaching Tolerance instructional activity, students examine misconceptions and stereotypes regarding religious clothing as they read selected articles and discuss their...
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Chinese Philosophies
Learners compare Confucianism and Daoism. In this Chinese culture instructional activity, students listen to a lecture comparing the religious philosophies and take a quiz at the end of the instructional activity.
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Focus of Native American Religious Practices
Here are five quick lessons you can use to introduce your class to religions from around the world. They view and perform a Native American dance, watch a video on Judaism, compare the difference between Catholics and Protestants, watch...
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The School Holiday Calendar
Various Muslim holidays and their meanings are researched and your young scholars will predict whether or not they should be recognized on the New York City school calendar. An extension could be to write a letter to the Mayor about...
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Exploring the Daoist worldview
Students study the accompanying quotes from the Dao dejing, the Zhuangzi and other Daoist writings. They determine particular implications for knowledge issues and ways of knowing.