Interactive Overview

• y6_buddhist_vocabulary.doc (Word 2003/24kb)
• y6_christianity_vocabulary.doc (Word 2003/24kb)
• www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/- Education material on all aspects of Buddhism
• www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/
• www.strath.ac.uk/curricularstudies/re/db/reartefacts/buddhist/ - Buddhist artefacts

Knowing some key Christian and Buddhist beliefs and practices

What do you already know about Christianity and Buddhism? (2.2)

How do Christians and Buddhists live their lives? (2.1, 2.5, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24)

• www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/re/virtual/buddhisttrail/ Tour of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
• www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/ - Buddhist studies for schools
• www.buddhanet.net/qanda.htm - Buddha's teachings
• www.buddhanet.net/flash/rahula/rahula.html - Basic Buddhist ideas

Founders of faiths and their importance for people today

Why it is important to have personal heroes?

The Buddha - What is important about the Buddha? (2.1; 2.3; 2.7, 2.23)

How do Buddhists try to follow the Buddha's example? (2.1, 2.7, 2.23)

• www.buddha-images.com - Buddha images
• www.bl.uk/learning/cult/sacred/stories/ - Buddhist stories
• www.ancientindia.co.uk/buddha/story/ - The Buddha
• www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/storybuddha.htm - Printable resources on Buddha
• www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/haringey/web/SACRE/placesofworship/ - Haringey Learning - London Buddhist Centre
• www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/re/virtual/buddhisttrail/ Tour of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

Sacred and secular Christmas

What is the difference between the sacred and the secular Christmas? (2.12; 2.16)

What would a Christian think Christmas is about? (2.12; 2.16)

Should Christmas be banned for non-Christians? (2.16; 2.23)

Expressive & visual arts in religions

How do Christians and Buddhists express their faith in art, drama and song? (2.8, 2.13)

Why do people of faith use art, drama and song to enrich their religious experience? (2.8, 2.15, 2.17)

• www.nationalgallery.org.uk - Images of Jesus
• http://new.kids4truth.com/dyna/creation/english.aspx - Old Testament story of creation
• www.bl.uk/learning/cult/sacred/stories/ - Animated stories from six different religions
• ww.clear-vision.org/Students/undereleven.aspx - Buddhist stories for 5-11 years

• www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/ebooks.htm - Guided meditation for primary students

Founders of Faiths and their importance for people today

How is the life of Jesus relevant today? (2.1, 2.3)

Why do christians remember Jesus particularly at Easter? (2.12, 2.21)

• www.biblesociety.org.uk - The Miracle Maker DVD

Ideas about God

What might God be like? (2.4; 2.21)

What do Christians believe about God? (2.4)

Use the Internet to search for the Rob Bell (Nooma) piece 'Rhythm'.

• http://new.kids4truth.com/dyna/creation/english.aspx - Creation Story

Images of God - the Trinity. With kind permission Elizabeth Boast and the Farmington Institute of Christian Studies.

• y6_images_god_trinity.pdf (Adobe pdf/173kb)

Human Responsibility for the Environment

How do humans exercise responsibility for the environment? (2.1, 2.22, 2.24, 2.25)

What do Christians believe about the relationship between humans, their environment and other living creatures? (2.20, 2.22, 2.24, 2.25)

Creation and Desecration – Creation in Reverse - reproduced by kind permission of Lat Blaycock. RE Today

• y6_story_creation.doc (Word 2003/35kb)
• y5_creation_reverse.doc (Word 2003/25kb) (document recommended for Year 6 too)

Suffering and happiness

Can desire cause suffering? (2.1, 2.17, 2.22, 2.24, 2.25)

Why is there suffering in the world? (2.6, 2.17, 2.22)

How do you overcome evil and promote goodness? (2.17, 2.22)

• www.clear-vision.org - Buddhism for KS2. Programme 2 ' the Dharma'
• www.hmd.org.uk- Holocaust Memorial Day Lesson Plan for Primary Schools

Year 6 Unit of Work to Support the Teaching about the Holocaust, links with English, PHSE, History, ICT and Drama. New

Based on the text 'I want to Fly like a Butterfly'

• Adobe pdf, 365kb/5 pages, 13/01/2011, y6_holocaust_unit5.pdf

Please contact Jane Chipperton email:readviser@stalbans.anglican.org for ways to obtain a copy of this book or order direct from Israel email:helen.rahamim@yadvashem.org.il

Guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust' with kind permission of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research (ITF)

• Adobe pdf, 127kb/19 pages, 14/10/2010, itf_guidelines_teaching_holocaust.pdf (Adobe pdf/134kb)

Additional Guidelines on Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites”and ”Preparing Holocaust Memorial Days: Suggestions for Educators”are available in pdf form and can be downloaded from this page:

• www.holocausttaskforce.org/education/guidelines-for-teaching.html

• Adobe pdf, 2.45MB/45 pages, 14/10/2010, illustrated_holocaust_glossary.pdf

Holocaust Illustrated Glossary with kind permission of Sharon Artley and the Imperial War Museum.