2013-2014 Resources:
Kindergarten & First Grade
Wonderful Welcome
The Wonderful Welcome curriculum engages and challenges leaders and children alike to explore how and why we are willing to welcome others into our lives. We welcome not only strangers, but family, our peers, our neighbors and even entities that are not people such as our animal friends and nature itself.
This curriculum will be used in conjunction with other curricula to help our children focus on how to live into our faith when dealing with specific topics.
Session Plan
Elementary
Signs of Our FaithRev. Morales asks us to think about religion as the practice of being faithful to what you love. In order to do this, you must decide what you love and do your best to live that love faithfully every day. Signs of Our Faith guides children to do their best to live faithful lives every day. It presents fourteen traits or values that most Unitarian Universalist love, including the quest for knowledge, reverence for life, supporting one another on our faith journeys, and public witness. Children examine how their lives do and can exhibit these traits and values, and come to understand that their faith is a living faith whose histories and teachings are fortifications for living faithfully in a complex world.
This curriculum will be used in conjunction with other curricula to help our children focus on how to live into our faith when dealing with specific topics.
Session Plan
Signs of Our Faith Online
Youth
Virtue Ethics
We make hundreds of decisions every day. Some are small. Some are life changing, although we may not know their significance when we make them. This program’s premise—in the words of the Buddha, recited in every workshop Opening—is that “our thoughts and actions become habits and our habits shape our character.” We have some control over our character. We can shape the person we want to be by making intentional, thoughtful decisions.
Youth
Virtue Ethics
We make hundreds of decisions every day. Some are small. Some are life changing, although we may not know their significance when we make them. This program’s premise—in the words of the Buddha, recited in every workshop Opening—is that “our thoughts and actions become habits and our habits shape our character.” We have some control over our character. We can shape the person we want to be by making intentional, thoughtful decisions.
This curriculum will be used in conjunction with other curricula to help our youth focus on how to live into our faith when dealing with specific topics.
Session Plan
Virtue Ethics Online
Our Whole Lives
GENERAL LINKS OF INTEREST
Virtue Ethics Online
Our Whole Lives
GENERAL LINKS OF INTEREST
- Tapestry of Faith curriculum
- Take a quick look at what happens during a typical Religious Exploration Class
- Blank Lesson Template
