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Monday, October 26, 2015
World Religions Project
Every year, the 6th grade students have done a research project about world religions in social studies for project fair. This year, students will be working both in groups and individually to research and create products about the 5 largest world religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. This will be a project that will be guided by student inquiry. This means that students will be generating their own questions about these religions and will find different ways to answer those questions and share their findings with an audience (you!) on project fair night, Thursday, December 3. Over the past few class periods, students have been looking at pictures, watching videos, and reading news articles about these religions. Then, students have been asking questions about what these sources have made them wonder. Now, they will be broken up into groups and will decide on what questions need to be asked and answered in order to share knowledge about the religion that they will research with others. They will also come up with an inquiry question of their own. This will be a question about religions that students want to answer on their own, outside of the group project. It may or may not have to do with the particular religion that they were assigned. This project will require collaboration, creativity, and curious minds. Students will be building these skills along with traditional research and presentation skills. Below is the rough outline of expectations for this project. The due dates are subject to change.
Questions for your 6th grader:
What religion will you be researching for your project?
What are some of the images that you have seen that relate to your religion?
Take a peek at what the process looks like:
Wyatt, Ellana, and Ethan are creating questions about Hinduism.
Lily, Mai-Linh, and Marcus are creating questions about Buddhism.
Lorenzo, Katey, and Lia are creating questions about Islam.
Ethan, Jonathan, and Brecken are creating questions about Christianity.
Toby, Collin, and Aino are creating questions about Judaism.
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