Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth WK OUTCOME STRATEGIES RESOURCES ASSESSMENT 1 1. Students Chapter One: Key understanding – -8.3 ‘Creation – God’s (know and Students develop an appreciation of original plan.’ understand) the wonder of creation and its that creation purpose. Chapter 1: The Basic affects people Purpose of Creation Students understand that creation is a gift Catechism of the Catholic given to us by God and we have a duty to Church: 310, 343, 282. protect and care for the environment

Students view video Nature’s Symphony or a series of nature slides with no narration, just quiet Creation: reflective music. As they are http://www.stmarysbroome. watching, students note any thoughts or wa.edu.au/home/religiouse feelings they experience. d/creation.htm Students illustrate how they have been moved by what they 9 Planets of the Solar have viewed/experienced. System Students collect the items for the Nature http://www.seds.org/billa/tn Scrounge on Learning p/ Activity Sheet 1. Students take time to http://www.vendian.org/mn examine the objects and, in charity/cosmicview their journal, write what the objects tell Basic human needs them about the work of the http://www.itstime.com/jun9 Creator. 7.htm Students read the Student Resource pp3- http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi- 5 and complete Journal bin/texis/vtx/home activity 1 and In class work 1, 2 and 3. http://www.cafod.org.uk/ http://www.christian- Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth aid.org.uk/ http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

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Video: Nature’s Symphony Learning Activity Sheet 1: Nature Scrounge Student Resource pp3-5

2. Students Students read the Student Resource pp5- Student Resource (know and 6 pp5-6 understand) Working in small groups, students are how people assigned one of the respect the following specific laws or forces of nature: forces of – gravity creation – storms – earthquakes – ocean currents – winds – evaporation – how the sun, the planets and other galaxies function – a natural force of your choice. All groups: Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth 1. research their designated force of nature/creation 2. show the benefit/s of respecting this force of creation 3. show the consequences of abusing or ignoring this force of creation 4. describe what this force tells people about the work of the Creator. Students present their findings to the class.

2 3. Students Students read the Student Resource pp6- Student Resource (know and 7 and complete pp6-7 understand) Journal activity 2 and In class work 4. Magazines and that people Students create a collage of themselves, newspapers realise that using clippings from they are newspapers and magazines and words unique within and drawings. creation The finished product must reflect how students see themselves (i.e. their skills, strengths, talents, future aspirations, heroes, etc.). Place these around the classroom and have students examine each of the collages. Discussion questions: 1. What have you noticed about each of Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth the collages? 2. Identify similarities and differences in the collages of different students. 3. What does this activity tell you about individual people in creation?

4. Students Students read the Student Resource p7. (know and Working in small groups students then understand) brainstorm the question: that there is a ‘For what purpose do you think God basic purpose created the universe?’ to creation Discuss findings as a class.

3. 1. know and Chapter Two: Key understanding – Resource Sheet 1: understand) Students understand that human Fair Share that people beings disagree about neglect and the basic purpose of creation and how Chapter 2: Relating with harm creation to treat creation. Creation for a variety of Catechism of the Catholic reasons The following learning strategy covers Church: 2415–2436. learning points 1 and 2) Damage to Creation Students read the Student Resource pp8- http://www.greenpeace.org/ 10 and complete In class work 1 and 2. http://www.greenpeace.org. Students then view and discuss Resource au http://www.foe.org.au/ Sheet 1 to consider the http://www.undp.org/hdr disproportionate use of the earth’s Stories of the Dreaming Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth resources. http://www.dreamtime.net.a u/index.cfm Aboriginal names and stories http://www.ozbird.com/oz/o zculture/images/aboriginal/

2. Students Working in small groups, using Learning Learning Activity (know and Activity Sheet 2, Sheet 2: understand) students produce a marketing poster to Disagreement About that many help raise people’s the Basic Purpose of serious awareness of their impact on the natural Creation consequences world and the result from not importance of people becoming stewards, accepting not destroyers, responsibility sustaining life for generations to come. for creation

3. Students Students define and discuss the term Student Resource (know and ‘Stewardship’. pp11- Aboriginal guest understand) Students read the Student Resource speaker (from the Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth that pp11-12 and complete Catholic Education stewardship of In class work 3 and 4. Office Aboriginal God’s creation Teachers are encouraged to invite an Guest Speaker is an Aboriginal guest speaker to Program) important talk with students about the Aboriginal Aboriginal stories: Christian people’s relationship to See useful websites responsibility creation. Students may be accompanied by the guest speaker to a place of Aboriginal significance. Students learn of its meaning and gain an understanding of why it is important to Aboriginal people. Students read some of the creation stories and expressions of indigenous cultures by visiting the internet websites. Students individually illustrate through artwork their understanding/ interpretation of one of the Aboriginal creation stories they have studied. Students must not distort the facts of the story due to the sacredness of these stories for Aboriginal people. Cautionary note: Students should be encouraged to see the Aboriginal stories about creation as sacred stories that help to explain to the Aboriginal people what life is all about. These stories Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth must not be presented as fables or myths.

4/5 1. Students Chapter Three: Key understanding – Student Resource (know and Students understand creation as a pp13-18 understand) sign of God’s love Learning Activity that God Sheet 3: A Sign of revealed that Students read the Student Resource God’s Love the earth and pp13-18 and complete everything in it In class work 1 and 2. was created to Using Learning Activity Sheet 3 as a Chapter 3: The Purpose glorify God guide, students select one of of Creation and to serve the psalms they have read from the Book Catechism of the Catholic as a sign of of Psalms, that praises Church: 293, 294, 301, God’s love for God for nature. Students then rewrite 295, and 341. all people their chosen psalm, giving it God’s love for a distinctly Australian flavour. All psalms all people need to reflect the man beauties of creation that express God’s love for the human race.

1. Students Chapter Four: Key understanding – Student Resource (know and Students understand the concept of pp19-20 understand) God’s Learning Activity Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth that God state of original justice. Sheet 4: Let’s Test the revealed Memory Bank lessons to Students read the Student Resource specially pp19-20 and complete Chapter 4: God’s State of chosen people In class work 1. Original Justice who were Students then complete Learning Activity Catechism of the Catholic inspired by Sheet 4. This task Church: 289, 282, 284, God to write requires students to use their 362–363, 369–372, 384, the books of comprehension skills as they answer 302–308, the Bible questions which relate specifically to the 374–376 and 400. prescribed reading. Marking key Creation Stories: Yahwist 1. A biblical literary form (1 point) and Priestly accounts 2. People could remember the lessons side by side from God (1 point) http://www-relg- 3. Religious stories reveal truths about studies.scu.edu/netcours/h God (2 points) b/dh/ccreat.htm 4. The Book of Genesis (1 point) 5. Beginning (1 point) King Nebuchadnezzar 6. The creation of the universe in seven http://www.execulink.com/~ days / The creation of the wblank/nebuch.htm first five parents of the human race in the Garden of Eden / The http://home.earthlink.net/~t Fall of the first parents of the human onybadillo/ race / Cain and Abel, the two brothers / The Flood, Noah and his Mary Ark / The Tower of http://www.silk.net/RelEd/m Babel (_ point for each story) ary.htm 7. It came to mean an arrangement or covenant between people Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth (1 point) 8. The experiences of the people of Israel / teachings from God up to the coming of Jesus (1 point for each)

2. Students Working in small groups and using Learning Activity (know and Learning Activity Sheet 5 and Sheet 5: How it understand) the Student Resource pp20-39, students Came to Be! that each of create picture books for Student Resource the creation a Year Three class presenting one of the pp20-39 stories in assigned creation stories: Genesis The Yahwist Creation Story (Genesis presents a 2:4–25) lesson from The Priestly Creation Story (Genesis 1:1– God 2:2) The aim of each picture book is to promote a better understanding of the amazing work of God and what God hoped to teach every human being through creation.

3. Students Adopting the jigsaw strategy and by using Student Resource (know and the Student Resource pp39-42 understand) pp39-42, students present in their own that God’s words one of the four basic state of ways to find happiness. original justice consisted of four harmonious Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth relationships

6 1. Students Chapter Five: Key understanding – Student Resource (know and Students understand that the original pp42-43 understand) harmony God God’s plan for created between the man and the Chapter 5: God’s Original creation has woman was damaged and as a result, Harmony Damaged not been fully people would be Catechism of the Catholic realised confused and experience harm that Church: 416–418, 374– God had never intended. 421, 391, 414, 400, 404– 405, (The following suggested learning 410–411, 416–418, 460 strategies covers learning and 398. points 1-5) Students read the Student Resource pp42-43 and complete In class work 1.

2. Students Students visit the website to view and Learning Activity (know and listen to Julian Lennon’s Sheet 6: Saltwater understand) song Saltwater. Students then complete how people focus questions in today do not Learning Activity Sheet 6. relate with God in the way God had intended Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth 3. Students Students then read the poem: ‘Genesis – Learning Activity (know and Last Chapter’ in Learning Sheet 7: Genesis – understand) Activity Sheet 7 and answer the questions Last Chapter how many that follow. This task people challenges students to consider at how experience creation is abused and unhappiness destroyed. and a lack of harmony

4. Students (know and understand) that many people relate in a negative manner with each other

5. Students (know and understand) how instead of respecting and treating creation as God intends, it is abused Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth

6. Students Students read Student Resource pp45-56 Student Resource (know and and complete pp45-56 understand) In class work 2-6. As the content is that, with substantial, the reading and Learning Activity God’s original activities need to be covered in ‘chunk- Sheet 8: The story of the harmony size’ parts, interspersed with fall damaged, sharing activities amongst the students or people could as a whole class, rather Learning Activity no longer see than dealt with in ‘one hit’. Sheet 9: Creation creation as Using Learning Activity Sheet 8 students today is not what God intended write and perform a play God intended on the story of the Fall. All plays need to e Story include the key teachings of the Fall of God so as to clearly emphasise the consequences of the first parents of the human race deliberately disobeying God. Students then complete Learning Activity Sheet 9, comparing what God revealed in the Creation Stories to the world of today. Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth 7 1. Students Chapter Six: Key understanding – Student Resource (know and Students understand that Jesus came pp57-59 understand) to restore the that Jesus human relationship with God, within restores the people, between people, between Chapter 6: Jesus The human human beings and Redeemer relationship the rest of creation. Catechism of the Catholic with God Church: 410, 420, 539, (The following learning strategy covers 607, 457, 539, 571, 598, learning points 1-2) 7472 Students read the Student Resource and 854. pp57-59 and complete Media In Class work 1 and 2. http://ninemsn.com.au/ http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.cnn.com/video_ vault/index.html http://www.newsphotos.co m.au/

2, Students (As above) Student Resource (know and pp57-59 understand) that Jesus came to redeem the human race and is known as the Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth ‘Redeemer’ and ‘Saviour’ God 3. Students Working in small groups and using Learning Activity (know and Learning Activity Sheet 10, Sheet 10: Challenging understand) students create a list of examples of Times that Jesus situations when teenagers Student Resource restores find it hard to love, to forgive, to be pp59-62 harmony honest and to be loyal. All Student Resource p69 within and groups report back to the class. (This between activity is also located in people the Student Resource as In class work 3). Students read the Student Resource pp59-62 and complete Journal activity 1 and In class work 3. Individual groups are then assigned one of the seven sacraments. Each group is to recall the graces received from the assigned Sacrament (presented in the table, Student Resource p69) and are to examine how the graces help teenagers in the above-mentioned situations. The small groups report back to class. (Note that the learning in this activity also links into the following learning points of Chapter 7: 2. …the seven special liturgies or Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth sacraments that Christians celebrate as a community 3. …Jesus’ Church continues to use human gestures and elements of creation in liturgy.)

4. Students Students read the Student Resource Student Resource (know and pp63-64 and complete pp63-64 understand) In class work 4. Learning Activity that the Using Learning Activity Sheet 11, Sheet 11: What kind Christian students take on the role of a of world it would be! promise can media production team working for a local become a television station. This reality in task requires students to prepare and people’s lives present an evening news if they draw coverage, whereby every person on earth on the power belongs to the Church of salvation and is drawing on the power Jesus that that Jesus offers them through the offers through sacraments. All stories presented must his Church aim to portray the four basic lessons revealed by God about original creation.

8 1. Students Chapter Seven: Key understanding – Chapter 7: Signs of the (know and Jesus used elements of creation, Power of Jesus understand) including human Catechism of the Catholic that Jesus gestures, as signs of his power and Church: 845, 1145, 1996, continues to God’s blessings. 1069, 1146, and 1075. offer Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth redemption (The following suggested learning and salvation strategy will cover learning Student Resource through every points 1-2) pp65-67 activity of his Before attending a guided study tour of Learning Activity Church the local parish Church or Sheet 12: Jesus school chapel, students read the Student continues his work Resource pp65-67, through his Church complete In class work 1 and then Sacraments Learning Activity Sheet 12. http://www.silk.net/RelEd/s Students share answers as a class. acraments.htm Catholic vestments (includes excellent photos) open both http://www.request.org.uk/ main/churches/catholic/cat holic06.htm http://www.request.org.uk/ main/festivals/church %20year/church %20year03.htm Vestments and sacred vessels http://www.monksofadorati on.org/vesselsx.html Eastern Catholic Rite vestments www.usask.ca/stm/pcuh/ca mpaign/working_together_r ight.htm (Ukrainian archbishops) Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth www.st-ann-melkite.org www.byzcath.org/news/200 0/Melkite-200000603- Page1.htm (Melkite Catholic vestments) www.stmichaelruscath.org/ siberiaphotos.htm (Greek Russian Catholic photo gallery) www.op.org/opwest/sap/ph oto_gallery/page_17.htm

2. Students (know and understand) the seven special liturgies or sacraments that Christians celebrate as a community Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth 3. Students Students explain why Sunday, Christmas Learning Activity (know and and Easter are the most Sheet 13: JESUS’ understand) important feasts for Christians. CHURCH – My Class that Jesus’ OR Visit Church Teachers are encouraged to arrange for a continues to parish priest or the school Student Resource use human chaplain to take the students on a guided pp68-78 gestures and study tour of the parish elements of Church, school chapel or perhaps even creation in the local Cathedral. liturgy Students use Learning Activity Sheet 13 to draw key symbolic elements used in liturgical celebrations and write a brief explanation for each one. They also need to briefly explain the importance of the Lord’s Day and significance of the liturgical calendar (a copy of which they will complete as part of their work on Learning Activity Sheet 13 – activities 17a and 17b). Note that students can also use the content in Student Resource pp68-78 to help them complete Learning Activity Sheet 13. They might then be asked to refer to In class work 2 to identify the liturgical colours worn at the following times: – throughout most of the year, called …… Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth [Ans: Ordinary Time] – on the feast of Christmas Day – in the seasons of Lent and Advent – on Easter Sunday – on Pentecost Sunday. Students from other Churches or religions could bring pictures of key symbolic elements of their places of worship to the next lesson and share them with the class.

9 1. Students Chapter Eight: Key understanding – Student Resource p79 (know and Students understand that Jesus understand) revealed that the universe, as Chapter 8: The End of the that the sin of people presently know it, will Universe as People Know the parents of eventually end and will be renewed by it the human one that is complete and perfect. Catechism of the Catholic race damaged Church: 1042, 1043, 302, people’s ability Students read the Student Resource p79. 999, 1038, 1039 and 1047– to see the 1048. universe as End of the Universe God intended http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ha wking/html/home.html

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2. Students Students read the Student Resource Student Resource (know and pp79-80. pp79-80 understand) Students then complete Learning Activity Learning Activity that only God Sheet 14, which Sheet 14: The Bible knows how requires students to look up various contains many visions the universe, biblical references and note the of the end-times as people details of the author’s vision of what will know it, will happen at the end of time. end (This activity makes it clear that, although the Bible presents many highly symbolic visions of the end-times, the underlying truth is that, whenever it happens and however it happens, only God knows how the universe will end.)

3. Students Students read the Student Resource Student Resource (know and pp80-83. pp80-83 understand) Students then complete Learning Activity Learning Activity that Jesus Sheet 15. The students Sheet 15: Internet taught what will use the altavista search engine in the Search for Artistic will happen at Images webpage to Depictions of the Last the end of locate artistic depictions of the Last Judgement time Judgement. After viewing each Useful student image, students fill in the table on the websites Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth activity sheet. Cautionary note: The depictions of the Last Judgement should be used with caution. Some images depict a God and a Christ that is contrary to Scripture’s depiction of God as a God of Unconditional Love. The last column in Learning Activity Sheet 15 asks students to evaluate how well each image reflects the God of Jesus. This is obviously a challenging task and will require much teacher assistance. Teachers may need to reinforce knowledge of the God of Jesus as loving, compassionate, just, forgiving and powerful to set people free.

R10e Review of Unit Students revise the key learning points of the Unit by reading the view Student Resource p84. of They then view the video, Children Speak and complete the Unit summary questions in Learning Activity Sheet 16. Student Resource p84 Video: Children Speak Learning Activity Sheet 16: Children Speak Year 8 Term 3: Creation – God’s original plan – programme Brian Kane St. Mary’s College Broome Week 1-3: Raising religious awareness: Creation Week 4-5: God gave us creation as a gift Week 6-10: Christian response – Jesus restores harmony, The Creed – creator of heaven & earth