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Bloom's
Taxonomy: This is a link to Bloom's
taxonomy. Looking at cognitive skills.
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Some
teaching ideas by year group ... |
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Some
lesson arranged by Primary and Secondary - go
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A
few more teaching ideas ...
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Year
2: Preparing
for a visit to a synagogue. Here children explore the issues
involved with visiting a place of worship and plan to visit
a virtual and a real synagogue - go
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Year
3: Preparing for Divali. Here children learn more
about the festival of Divali. The lesson uses website resources
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Year
4: What religions are represented in our neighbourhood?
Here children begin searching for information about local
religious traditions using conventional materials and online
resources
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Year
5: Investigating the Bible? Here children investigate
the meaning of some biblical passages by looking at several
different versions. The activity makes use of a wide range
of internet resources
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Year
6: The Qur’an: Introduction: Here children
will learn more about why the Qur’an is important to
Muslims and find out more about the names of God. A variety
of internet resources are used
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some more generic ideas ... |
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Retell
a story: Staffordshire
Learning Net – has an archive of short stories with
religious themes which is well worth looking at for useful ideas.
Also look at the Brick
Testament for inspiration for making story boards.
Thought
needs to be given to the choice of story and you can use digital
video to capture an enacted story, or digital stills to make
a story board, voice narration on Powerpoint...
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Make
a news broadcast: This might be based an event they have
studied or a moral or ethical situation, children should craft
the narrative, interview people and then using a digital video
camera and a package like Photostory
3, Windows Movie Maker or iMovie to make a short 3" 'breaking
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Capturing
Acheivement : Look for opportunites to use the IT to
capture the acheivement of the pupils, this might be via audio
capture or video capture or via stills but this will help to
gather evidence of acheivement in non-literate forms this could
be sued for:
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Discussion
groups
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Circle
Time
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P4C
discussions
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Pairs
and Shares
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Brainstorms
or Mind Maps
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Make
a documentary: Produce a 5-10 minute film on a religion,
or religious topic or an ethical or moral issue. This should encourage
develoment of thinking skills and develop the construction of
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Make
a Vox Pop: Using a digital recorder or a tape recorder
pupils should decide on a question such as "Do you believe
in God" or "Can you be a believer if you don't attend
a place of worship" and collect opinions from a range of
pupils, teachers and parents. This can lead to good numeracy
work when dealing with the data and good discursive work from
the answers.
Sample
interviews can be found on the RE
Quest website and on the People
of Faith websites.
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Update
a story: How might you change an exiting tale to be
more appropriate for the C21st? Look at the following update
of the Good
Samaritan or have a look at some of the following sites
for stories:
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BodhiTree:
humorous and thought-provoking Buddhist cartoon sequences
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RE
Quest: the life and teaching of Jesus
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Stories
of the Hasidic rabbis: for Jewish tales
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Research
the life of a famous religious leader / personality:
For example pupils can be expected to
be aware of key figures in recent Christian history whose lives
reflect their attempt to follow Jesus' teachings, often in most
extraordinary circumstances. Whilst work on the lives of Mother
Teresa and Martin Luther King is perennially popular there are
many others to choose from. The internet can be a rich source
of reference, here are just a few:
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The
My
Hero project is about the lives of people who have been
inspired by their faith
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Famous
People from the BBC website gives you some places to begin
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Ask
4 Kids is about the best search engine for primary schools
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Visting
places that would otherwise be impossible: There are
a growing number of viritual visits availble on line some places
to begin are:
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Bradford
Interfaith Centre - link
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Hackney
Learning Live: Living Religions - Hinduism - link
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Online places of worship - link
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