World Religions Assignment

World Religions

Project

For this project we will look at the five major world religions.   You and your group members will prepare a lesson to teach the class about one of these religions.  Groups have already been made and religions will randomly be assigned.  

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism

Task:  You and your group will:

1. research your assigned religion (1 block)
2. work to create a lesson on the religion to the class (1 block)
3. follow a check list of items that need to be completed
4. present your topic to the class (with ppt, google slides, or prezi) (20 minutes)

(each student will present at least 3 slides)

Grades: See the rubrics to see what you will be graded on!

Checklist:

• research notes (individual)
• powerpoint slides (individual, but combined into one presentation)

Due Date: We will have two blocks to prepare the project (one to research, one to prepare the presentation)  and we will use one to one and a half blocks to present.

For each Religion, the following items need to be addressed:

• Origins/Roots of the Belief System (Graph of growth)
• Date started
• Founder/prophet/leader
• Where it was started
• History (timeline needed)
• Spread of religion – How? When? Where? Military action?
• Decisions / sects / denominations/branches
• Important dates / key events
• Beliefs/Values
• Key beliefs (ex: 5 Pillars of Islam/10 Commandments)
• Demographics/Geography (Map necessary)
• What countries practice this religion
• What world events/issues exist in correlation to this religion
• Important Figures
• God(s)? (name and explain the significance) 
• Worship/Religious Practices
• Holy books
• Significant days 
• Symbols?

Each group will divide these tasks up equally among their group members.  Each member is to have one of the underlined topics (because these have a graphic requirement to them).