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Catholic Mass Kid's Trivia Game Part 8 Receiving Communion

This video is a trivia game that can be used to assess children's understanding of receiving Communion at Mass.

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Catholic Mass Kid's Trivia Game Part 2 Introductory Rites

This video is a trivia game that can be used to assess children's understanding of the Introductory Rites.

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An Exodus Celebration of God's Power and Love

A joyful activity for elementary children to learn about and reenact the Israelites’ escape from Egypt and their songs of praise to God.

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Treasures of Our Faith Bingo Card

A fun activity to help children recall important facts of our Catholic faith.

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Popular Bible Stories

This handout provides a list of Scripture passage that can be used for games and to review well-known Bible stories.

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Aiming for God Game

This handout contains cards to be used with the “Aiming for God Game”.

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Samson Strong

This is a score card to keep track of physical activities based on Samson from the Old Testament.

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Peer Evaluation: The Game of Samsara

A peer evaluation form of student-created games.

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Teacher Evaluation: The Game of Samsara

This evaluation is to be used as a rubric for a game that groups of students created using Hindu concepts.

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Loaves and Fishes: A Game of Feeding Others

A game that involves reading Scripture passages, answering questions, and making your way through a maze.

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Kingdom of God Bingo

A bingo sheet with Scripture passages about the Kingdom of God.

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"Being Human" Bingo

A fun bingo game on “being human,” from Section 4 Part 1 of “Jesus Christ: God’s Love Made Visible.”

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Preassessment Exodus Jeopardy, from “The Catholic Youth Bible” Old Testament Teacher Guide

A fun preassessment Jeopardy activity to test students’ current knowledge of the Exodus, from “The Catholic Youth Bible” Old Testament Teacher Guide.

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Game Show Questions: Hunger in America

Several “game show” questions on hunger in America.

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You're Respect-a-Ball!

Class activity/affirmation exercise

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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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Directions for Game on! Games for Catholic Connections

Original directions to go with Game On! Cards. instructions for Baseball, Dodgeball, Identity, Jeopardy...

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Jesus Jingles

Activity, turn commercial slogans into slogans for God

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It’s in the Cards

Uses cards to make/form groups

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It's A Match

Icebreaker? people are famous pairs, have to find each other

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I Am More Like. . .

Class strategy. Activity to help students articulate and share some of their personal characteristics and develop an appreciation for differences among people

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Birthday Blessings

Similar to back to school blessing handout. Something you can do at home, "introduce God into your birthday celebrations at home"

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Paul's Conversion

Background for the Teacher This session focuses our attention on Paul's conversion experience. Using a hard-boiled egg and a raw egg as focusing symbols, the young people reflect on the meaning of conversion. Then two or three of the participants …

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Paul: A Unique Person

Background for the Teacher Saint Paul has fascinated Christians throughout history. The combination of his Jewish upbringing, his exposure to Greek culture, his fiery personality, and his openness to God's grace uniquely prepared him to spread the Gospel. This session …

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Soup or Bowl: A Game and Service Project for Super Bowl Sunday

OVERVIEW This combination game and service project is played in relay style by teams of young people with cans of soup that they bring as donations for the local food pantry. Suggested Time: A minimum of 10 minutes, or as …

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The Liturgical Year

Learning Experience: The Liturgical Year (20 minutes) On a chalkboard or sheet of newsprint, draw six horizontal lines. Tell the group members that each line represents one of the Church seasons. Invite them to name the major seasons of the …

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Building Faith Community in the High School

In a workshop entitled "The Catholic High School as Faith Community," religion teachers, campus ministers, and school administrators discussed, among many things, the obstacles they face in trying to build faith community in their school. One obstacle they addressed was …

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