Friday, 30 September 2016
Religious Understanding
Objectives
• To examine the similarities
between different faiths in
Britain today.
Homework: Research task next lesson
Find out the religious make up of your
area. Due:
Starter Task:
Match the symbol to the religion
and write out at least one thing
you know about this religion.
Hinduism
Judaism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Sikhism
Name:
Homework
Find out the religious make up of people in your local area (within 3 mile radius). Do not assume that you know what religion people are. A good
way of finding out is to use the internet http://localstats.co.uk/ or you could look around where you live and make a note of how many different
religious buildings there are.
Starter Task: Name the religion and write out
one thing you know about each religion
Starter Task: Name the religion and write out
one thing you know about each religion
Compare and Contrast Task:
Group work
• Each table has information about one religion.
Read through the information and make some
notes in your book about that religion.
• Split the task between you e.g. one person
could make a note about the religious beliefs
and another person could make a note on the
history of the religion. (you have five minutes
to complete this activity)
• You must then move around the room and
read the information about the other religions
how are they similar? How are they different.
(you have 15 minutes 3 minutes per religion)
• Report back to your group and collate your
information
• Your group must then report back to the rest of
the class.
• Complete the ‘How we worked as a team’
sheet
Hinduism began
about 5000 years
ago (no founder)
Buddhism began
about 2500 years
ago – founder
Siddhartha
Gautama (who was
a Hindu)
Sikhism began
about 500 years ago
founder Guru Nanak
(who was a Hindu)
Shared History
Judaism began over 4000
years ago founder
Abraham
Christianity began
over 2000 years ago
founder Jesus (Jewish)
Islam began in 7th Century.
Founder Muhammad (PBUH)
although not Jewish he followed a
monotheistic faith (worship of one
God) began by Abraham’s son
Ishmael
The Golden Rule – A shared ideology
Interfaith Week
How a school celebrated interfaith week
Task
You have been asked to plan an interfaith week activity (it can be one activity or it can be different
activities) Create a poster advertising the event. Use the information sheet and the web page
http://www.interfaithweek.org/
Title: Interfaith week 13 – 20 November 2016
Must
Should
Could
Have an outline of the event and
how this will help with interfaith
relationships (Grade 1 -2 )
Also have an explanation of why
interfaith week is important to the
community (Grade 3 -4)
Also have an overview of the
similarities between each of the
faiths (shared Golden Rule) (Grade
5 – 7)
Extension Task: Write a letter to Mr Beischer outlining your ideas for an Interfaith week activity. Explain what
interfaith week is and why it is important to our school community. Explain what you would like to happen
during interfaith week and suggest how you would implement this. (Grade 8 - 9)