This section contains material suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4. The emphasis is on providing a basis for making links between personal experience, the insights of religious traditions and thought, and the environment. Discussion is a particularly important part of any session on these subjects.
Secondary Resources
The Origins of Music
Does music have its origins in nature, or is science the key to its creation? View...
Published: 01/07/2002
Eco Quiz
Are you earth-friendly? This interactive quiz is designed to help you think about the way you might affect the future of our earth. View...
Published: 01/07/2001
Pilgrimage: Travel - An Environmental Issue?
The activities in this resource are designed to introduce some of the environmental problems that arise from modern travel technology and to use ideas from the world's religions to reflect on them. View...
Published: 04/01/2000
Shraddh
Often the relationship between religion and the environment is examined by asking questions about sacred texts. This material takes a different approach and focuses on a poem written by Eleanor Nesbitt in 1993. View...
Published: 03/01/2000
World-Wide Webs
Develops work on the inter-connections between the individual and the wider world and the responsibilities this involves and introduces the work of faith communities internationally. View...
Published: 02/01/2000
Personal And Local Webs
Introduces basic ideas related to RE and the Environment, explores the way in which every human is related to the world around him or her. and shows these reflected in the teachings of faith groups on the value of individuals. View...
Published: 01/01/2000
Using The Resources
The first two activities ('Personal Webs' & 'World-Wide Webs') are designed to start students thinking about inter-relations between themselves and the world in which they live. One is based on personal inter-relations and the other on relations with the wider world. As they are interchangeable, either can be used first, or one can be used by itself; depending on the class being taught, or the context.
Further activities in the next half term and beyond will build on ideas from these early sessions.
See the specific details of relevant areas of the Science and RE curricula.
The activities and readings could also be adapted for use as the basis for collective worship / assemblies, either using a show-and-tell format or as the stimulus for a short piece of drama. An example of an assembly prepared by one class for the whole school is given here, linked to the second piece.
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