Keeping the Faith

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Keeping the Faith

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In this lesson, students examine the ways in which various religious faiths have responded to social, ideological, and technological changes in "modern" times.

Education Levels:

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

Process Skills, Writing (composition), Technology, Christianity, Technology And Civilization, Islam, Judaism, History

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

The New York Times

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Keywords:

Ideology, Faith, Religion, New Testament, Morality, Old Testament, Al Jazeera, Muslims, Morocco, Koran

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers, Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

The New York Times

Contributor:

Annissa Hambouz, Javaid Kahn

Is Part Of:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2001/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Information and Communication Skills, History, English, Language Arts, Global Awareness

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards Social Studies (2002)

People in Societies
Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices and products of cultural, ethnic and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional and global settings.

Benchmark B: Analyze examples of interactions between cultural groups and explain the factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict.

Conforms To

The Kansas Curricular Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography and History (1999)

Geography Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth's surface and relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that occur in our interconnected world.

Benchmark 2 - Regions: The student analyzes the spatial organization of people, places, and environments that form regions on Earth's surface.

By the end of Eleventh Grade

4. explains why regions are important to individual and group identities as symbols for unifying or fragmenting society (e.g., Arab World, Bible Belt, Japanese during W.W.II, Chinatown)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Social Studies (1999)

Strand B: People, Places, and Environments [Geography]

Standard 2: The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment.

Benchmark SS.B.2.3.5: The student understands the geographical factors that affect the cohesiveness and integration of countries.

Conforms To

Social Studies Proficiency Guide (1996)

World Geography

Places and Regions

Explain the concept of region (a human construct for organizing information to help interpret the Earth's complexity) and describe the human and physical characteristics of place.

Analyze the ways in which people's changing views of places and regions reflect cultural change.

Conforms To

Colorado Model Content Standards for Geography (1995)

Standard 2: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.

2.3 Students know how culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.

Conforms To

Geography for Life: The National Geography Standards (1994)

Human Systems

The characteristics, distributions, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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