Key question
What links do we have with other people?
Learning objectives
Through this unit, students learn to:
• become aware that we are all members of communities, including a large, global one
• look at how the different communities to which we belong sometimes have different rules and values, and how these might conflict with each other
• understand the global communities of major faith traditions
• explore how communities can become strong by working together and cooperating.
Activities
Ask students to:
• draw and illustrate a web of communities to which students belong, including purpose, common interests, and identifying features
• take part in cooperative games and democratic decision-making to produce a decorated totem pole
• engage in role play, and discuss situations of conflicting rules within groups, such as negotiating for halal/kosher meat dishes at the school canteen, religious dress and observance of school uniform rules
• research ways in which a worldwide and multifaith community has managed to achieve its purpose through cooperation, for example Jubilee 2000 (now the Jubilee Debt Campaign).
