Message from jshepherd

[Anonymous]

A couple of ideas for teaching the different belief systems:
- webquest- give your students guiding questions then have them search for their answers.
- Character posters of the different founders (my students love these)
-analyze the different belief systems of cultures they've already studied, identify the basic tenents, why/how do we know these... make sure they understand that often "religion is culture", look at the culture's where Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism are practied and were practiced and identify the basic standards of society. Answer which go with each belief system.
-Pictures always help.. I build slide shows off the internet to illustrate ideas and give examples of the belief systems.
- One thing I tried this year as the culminating assessment of the three religions/philosophies is have my students write a compare and contrast essay. They were able to use our class discussion/notes, different websites, as well as books and other resources I have in my room. I provided them with a number of graphic organizers as well (I think these are necc. for the majority of students to organize their info.) This worked wonderfully for all my students but primarily for my eld kids to drive home the belief systems.

Julia Shepherd
Riverside, CA[Edit by="jshepherd on Feb 19, 2:58:13 PM"][/Edit]