Faith in Action
This handout challenges students to create a poster representing the ways they participate in Jesus’ mission to serve others.
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Abraham, Sarah, and Their Descendants
This partner project asks students to read and learn about a descendent of Abraham. The pairs must then complete a writing assignment and create an artistic symbol for the assigned person.
Creating a Triptych
This is a description for an art project where students express the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
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First Reconciliation Meal Prayer
Make this simple prayer card for your family table. The prayer is especially appropriate as preparation for First Reconciliation.
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My Vocation
This handout helps students identify their talents, gifts, and personality and how these fit into God’s vocation for their lives.
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Miracles
This small-group activity asks students to read several versions of a miracle of Jesus. Groups must then answer questions and create a storyboard to accompany the Scripture passage.
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Abraham, Sarah, and Their Descendants
This partner project asks students to read and learn about a descendent of Abraham. The pairs must then complete a writing assignment and create an artistic symbol for the assigned person.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 1
This handout provides two project possibilities to assess student understanding of the concepts covered in Unit 1.
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Creating a Triptych
This is a description for an art project where students express the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
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Faith in Action
This handout challenges students to create a poster representing the ways they participate in Jesus’ mission to serve others.
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From the Apostles to Us
Students create a storyboard to show how God is revealed in Sacred Tradition.
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A Zoroastrian Symbol
This handout presents a Zoroastrian Symbol of faith and explains its elements. Students are then challenged to create their own symbol to represent their personal understanding of faith and human nature.
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A Zoroastrian Symbol
The illustration on this handout is the Faravahar, a symbol of Zoroastrian faith. With the example of the Faravahar in mind, create, on a separate sheet of paper, a symbol that represents your own religious faith or personal understanding of …
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Missions to North America
With your partner, follow the instructions on this handout to trace the missionary activities in North America during the Age of Exploration.
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Web Quest on Renaissance Culture
Write your group member’s names at the top of this handout, and circle the topic assigned to your group. Use the Internet to locate three reliable sources about your group’s assigned topic in Renaissance culture. Use this handout to organize …
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The Fig Leaves of My Life
A craft activity where students cut out a fig leaf and draw or write the ways that they hide who they really are.
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Revelation Gallery Walk Stations
Directions for five gallery walk stations: Revelation and Salvation History, The Longing for God, Natural Revelation, Finding God in All Things, and God’s Revelation in Scripture.
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Sacred Time: The Liturgical Calendar
A worksheet where students are asked to fill in information on the liturgical calendar.
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Prayer Stations
Three prayer stations presenting ideas for craft projects to help make forgiveness more tangible for students.
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Paul, the Missionary Adventurer: The Comic Book Version
This resource is part of the Living in Christ Series. It is a project idea for students to create a comic book/graphic novel about Paul's adventures in the Acts of the Apostles.
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A Place at Our Table
A class activity designed to raise awareness of the reality of hunger in our nation and world.
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Pass the Bag: A Biblical Affirmation Exercise
Class activity that familiarizes them with scriptural values, increases vocab, and ups self-esteem
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Lenten Justice Crosses
OVERVIEW Through this hands-on project, the young people help spread the Lenten message of conversion to justice. They also become familiar with the message of the prophet Micah and the traditional spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Suggested Time: …
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February 14: Valentine Puzzles
Preparation. Purchase or make a poster board heart, about 6 inches wide, for every four or five young people. Write on each heart a different scriptural verse that pertains to love. Include the citation. Here are some possible citations: Deut. …
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All Saints' Day: Unmasking Saints
Unmasking Saints: A Learning Activity for All Saints' Day OVERVIEW This creative activity helps young adolescents learn a little about their Catholic heritage by exploring the life and work of their patron saint or a favorite saint. Group Size: This …
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A New Rock
OVERVIEW This is a youth catechetical session intended to lead young people to an understanding of Pope John Paul II's life, ministry, general papal responsibilities, and the procedure for electing a new pontiff. It can be used in a …
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Month of the Rosary: Share the Rosary
For a class or group project make rosaries for a group of elementary students preparing to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time. Rosaries can be made from beads found at craft stores or by tying knots …
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What Every Teen Should Know
I often joke with my students that they help me parent my children! When my daughter Ellie was turning thirteen, all of a sudden I was struck with this idea that turned out to be an awesome activity for my …
