Let’s face it. Whether you’re a first-year teacher or a seasoned educator, lesson planning can be a time-consuming, dreaded activity. Core content, standards, modifications, learning styles, diversification; there is just so much… well, planning. In the modern age of the Internet, you can be overwhelmed with the never-ending online resources at your fingertips. Finding those gems – those thorough, effective resources that you can implement year after year, tweaking to fit seamlessly into your semester plan – is priceless.
Especially when developing World Religions activities appropriate for your middle school or high school lesson plans, lesson planning can be daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.
The key to implementing an already-existing activity into your lesson plan is to modify it to fit your needs. Finding lesson plans that go so far as to offer up these modifications and implementation suggestions for you makes this process even easier! Take what works in your classroom and leave the rest. Try new strategies or stick with your tried-and-true methods. Use existing resources to make your job easier while making your students’ education better.
The topic of World Religions is vast and even controversial at times. Providing valid, insightful information, presented in an effective or interesting manner, isn’t always easy, but it is possible! Using a ready-made activity plan like this World Religions Timeline Project Activity simplifies the work you need to put in to your daily plan. And, this activity plan allows you to plan a World Religions lesson in 5 minutes or less! Simply slide this complete activity, in whatever form works for you, into your unit plan as an introductory activity or for content review.
This specific lesson plan works for you and how you need it to. Use it as a group activity, an individual assignment, a make-up activity, for introduction of ideas, or for review! Use the included timeline resources for a research-and-document activity or even for a human timeline!
As a group activity:
Assign students into pairs or small groups. Distribute the research sheet and timeline components to each group with assigned event cards. Instruct students to research and discuss their assigned events. Allow students to present the information they gathered to the class.
As an individual assignment:
Assign desired event pages and timeline components. Have each student create a complete timeline for posting, presenting, or otherwise utilizing.
Don’t complicate your lesson planning process. Why spend hours brainstorming, researching, designing, documenting, organizing, and implementing unproven lesson plan ideas and activities when there are so many ready-made lessons at your fingertips? Instead, browse for thoroughness, effectiveness, and accuracy, and spend just 5 minutes modifying lesson plans like the World Religions Timeline Project Activity to work for you. You deserve to spend the rest of the time relaxing. (Who are we kidding? You’ll be grading papers. But still.)
Happy Teaching!
