Teach your students about Palm Sunday and Jesus's entry into Jerusalem with this lesson plan and collection of activities, crafts, worksheets, and teaching ideas. Palm Sunday Lesson Objectives Palm Sunday Lesson Lesson Hook If the President (or prime minister, king, etc.) was coming to visit your school, how would the teachers and ...
Commemorate the most significant moments of the passion and death of Jesus Christ with this class skit script. Students will perform a passion play beginning with the Last Supper and ending with the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The goal of the skit is to help students experience the passion and death of Jesus Christ and reflect on the meaning of ...
In this lesson your students will understand the meaning of the Sign of the Cross. When they make the Sign of the Cross, they will remember the sacrifice Jesus made for them and affirm their belief in the Holy Trinity. The format for the lesson is a simplified version of Lectio Divina Lesson Planning called The RE3 Framework: Read, Reflect, and ...
Teach your students about Palm Sunday and Jesus's entry into Jerusalem with this lesson plan and collection of activities, crafts, worksheets, and teaching ideas. Palm Sunday Lesson Objectives Palm Sunday Lesson Lesson Hook If the President (or prime minister, king, etc.) was coming to visit your school, how would the teachers and ...
Introduce your students to the Catechism of the Catholic Church's five forms of prayer with this video: How do we pray? When many people hear the word “prayer,” they think about us asking God for help, but that is only one way to pray. The Catechism of the Catholic Church divides prayer into five forms: petition, intercession, ...
In 2017 I introduced a concept that has transformed the way I teach in religious education: Lectio Divina Lesson Planning. The idea is pretty simple: apply the prayer process of Lectio Divina to everything we teaching catechesis. The process really caught on and many others benefited from the approach, so I expanded the ideas into a book on ...
So, you are teaching virtually this year. Things are going to be different. It certainly won’t be religious education as normal. It might not be the year we expected. But it could be an amazing year. In response to the pandemic, many schools and parishes have chosen between: In-person classes with social distancing and masks…
Imagine . . . A classroom of kids actively engaged in learning about their faith. They work diligently on assignments. They listen to your presentations. They ask questions and are able to go home and articulate what they learned in class to their parents and friends. Now imagine the opposite . . . Students are…
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