Religion Lesson Plan: Culture

Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Religion, and supports the standard of analyzing the role of religion in human culture and society. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Display this image from the movie (timestamp 1:03):

Ask students:

  • What symbols do you recognize? What do you think they mean?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Read aloud the description on the Religion topic page.
  • Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding. 
  • Have students read one of the Related Reading articles. Partner them with someone who read a different article to share what they learned with each other.

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS 

Students take the Religion Quiz, applying essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about religion while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.

  • Make-a-Movie: Make a mini-documentary describing one religion featured in the BrainPOP movie. Include details about its cultural significance for practicing communities. 
  • Make-a-Map: Make a concept map comparing and contrasting monotheistic and polytheistic religions. 
  • Creative Coding: Code a meme that celebrates the diversity of world religions.

More to Explore

Culture Unit: Continue to build understanding about diverse beliefs and practices with more BrainPOP topics.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Related:

    Filed as:  3-5, 6-8, BrainPOP, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1