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Chapter I: Tough Questions
The worksheet poses several questions that ask students to reflect on how they would have stood up for their faith during the French and American Revolution.
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Chapter E: Early Christians Plant the Seeds
On this worksheet, students solve clues to list the names of important early Christians. These answers are then used to decode a secret message.
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Exercise Your Catechism
This handout guides students as they become familiar with searching for information in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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The Seven Petitions
On this handout, students match the meaning to each line of the Lord’s Prayer.
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A Prayer Puzzle
On this handout, students must use clues to unscramble words related to prayer.
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Spirit Telecom: The Universal Wireless Prayer Network
This handout guides students as they locate and read various Scripture passages focusing on the many way God calls us to prayer.
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Mercenary, Slave, or Disciple
Students identify their motivation for doing good deeds before reflecting on the role of grace in their lives.
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Grace upon Grace
Students look up and read several passages about grace. The worksheet asks students to identify the purpose of grace in each and summarize the ways grace is present in their own lives.
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The Spirit in Multiple Acts
Students look up and read several passages that the Holy Spirit. The worksheet asks students to summarize each passage and describe the role of the Holy Spirit in spreading the Good News.
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Okay, Gang, Listen Up!
Students look up and read several passages that highlight Jesus’ instructions to his disciples. This worksheet then challenges students to reflect on how well the Church is following the instructions today.
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Jesus’ Healings’ Common Points
Students look up and read several miracle stories from the New Testament before identifying common points between them.
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Although You Have Heard
Students rewrite classroom rules modeling their responses after Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.
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YES! We Do!
This handout helps provides the dialogue for the students to renew their baptismal promises as a class.
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Biblical Evidence for Jesus’ Divinity
Students look up, read, and examine Scripture passages that provide evidence that Jesus is God.
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Influential Women
Students look up, read, and answer questions about Scripture passages that note influential women in the New Testament.
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What about You?
After reading Mark 8:27-29, students must answer several questions about who Jesus is to today’s world and people.
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I’m in This Story?
Students must look up several Scripture passages that give insight into the disciples of Jesus. This worksheet poses questions that help make Jesus’ mission relatable to students.
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Popular Bible Stories
This handout provides a list of Scripture passage that can be used for games and to review well-known Bible stories.
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Do You Believe?
For this worksheet, students look up Scripture passages that examine the words and beliefs of Jesus in each story.
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She Is Your Mother
As students complete this worksheet, they will explore what it means when we say that Mary is the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church.
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Priest, Prophet, and King
Students find examples in the Bible of the priestly, prophetic, and kingly work of Christ before applying it to their own lives.
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The Lost Son
On this worksheet, students retell the story of the Prodigal Son using texting and social media messages.
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Gospel Comparisons
On this worksheet, students read all four Gospel accounts of the resurrection before identifying similarities and differences between them.
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My Vocation
This handout helps students identify their talents, gifts, and personality and how these fit into God’s vocation for their lives.
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Where East Meets West
This worksheet guides students to make connections between Confirmation in the Eastern and Western Churches.
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Waters of Salvation
On this worksheet, students identify the Scripture passages associated with the various parts of the Blessing of the Water used at the Easter Vigil.
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A Sacred Family Meal
This worksheet guides students to make connections between the Mass and a special meal or tradition in their family.
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Saying Yes
This handout guides students to examine several Scripture passages exemplifying what it means to say “yes” to God’s call.
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The Word God Speaks
This worksheet helps students to explore the meaning of “the Word” in John’s Gospel and throughout Scripture.
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Stories That Speak to Us
This handout guides students to recognize the importance of stories, both in our families and our faith.
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Putting the Pieces Together
This puzzles helps students to identify and order the parts of the Liturgy of the Word.
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My Birthday Readings
Students identify the liturgical season in which their birthday falls. This worksheet then guides them to identify and summarize the readings for that day.
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Liturgical Roles
This handout asks students to identify the role of the various liturgical ministers at Mass.
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Important Moments
This handout asks students to think about and reflect on moments in their life that have been significant.
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My Morning and Evening Prayers
This handout asks students to think about the Liturgy of the Hours before they answer questions about and create their own morning and evening prayers.
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Symbol Search
This handout challenges students to find symbols in their classroom or school and identify the deeper meaning of each.
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Unlocking the Codes
This handout provides several short activities for students to complete as they learn about the symbolism of the Book of Revelation.
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By Faith
This worksheet guides students to read numerous passages from the Bible regarding despair, faith, and hope. Students are then asked to draw connections between the passages and heroes.
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Passover Parallels
This partner worksheet helps students draw connections between Old Testament passage about the Passover and New Testament passages about the Mass.
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Married Couple Interview
This handout provides the outline for an interview of a married couple.
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Extra! Extra!
Students read two “news articles” and evaluate the morality of each by answering a series of questions.
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Samson Smart
This is a set of riddles to challenge students as they learn about Samson in the Old Testament.
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Music to My Ears
Students evaluate a contemporary piece of music based on several different categories of violence and disrespect.
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Ways to Respect Life
This worksheet challenges students to think about how they can value the dignity of life on a day-to-day basis.
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Justice in the World
This worksheet challenges students to think about how the teachings about Justice from the Bishops of the World apply to their daily lives.
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Teachings from the Catechism
This worksheet challenges students to think about how the teachings from the Catechism on the fourth commandment apply to their daily lives.
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Which Way Shall We Go?
This handout provides a chart for students to list activities that are best to do on Sunday and those that should be saved for other days of the week.
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The Transfiguration of Jesus
This worksheet helps students to read Scripture passages, answer questions about, and understand the importance of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
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Lead Me Not into Temptation
This handout presents different roles for students to act out from a real-life theft situation
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The Bible’s Practical Moral Advice
This worksheet guides students as they look up Scripture passages that give moral advice.
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Beatitudes Strips
A list of the Beatitudes organized to be cut into strips for a class activity.
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Mary’s Little Lamb
This worksheet helps students to reflect on the numerous images of the lamb found in Scripture.
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Supernatural Beliefs: What’s Right?
This worksheet guides students to identify and research Church teachings on supernatural beings.
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Religious Identity Descriptions
This handout provides the religious identities for five major world religions.
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Introduction to the Old Testament
This worksheet guides students to explore and become familiar with the sections of the Old Testament.
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Categories of Books in the Old Testament
This is a list of characteristics to be divided among the books of the Old Testament.
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Mind Map: From the Spoken Word to the Written Word
This Mind Map helps students to organize and brainstorm ideas about friends, school, sports, and family.
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Primary Source Reader Correlations
This is a list of articles and other sources to accompany student learning as they discover who is Jesus Christ.
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New Testament References to Eternal Life
This handout lists Scripture passages to be read by students that reference eternal life and how Jesus makes it possible for us to attain it.
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Catholic Social Teaching and the Common Good
This worksheet helps students to take notes as they read articles and make connections to the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
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Scripture and Prayer
On this worksheet partners choose three scripture passages from both the Old and New Testaments. They then note how what each passage teaches about prayer and our relationship with God.
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The Movie Tells a Story
This worksheet provides questions for students to reflect on and answer while watching a movie.
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Fully Human
This handout poses questions and gives statements that challenge to think about what it means to be fully human and how Jesus exemplified that in his life.
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What It Means to Be Human
This handout helps students list characteristics that come from society and from Jesus’ teachings that describe what it means to be human.
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Faith in Action
This handout challenges students to create a poster representing the ways they participate in Jesus’ mission to serve others.
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Called to Service
This handout asks students to list examples of people in their lives that are serving the community in the various Christian vocations.
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Getting to Know Mary
Students look up various Bible passages to create an understanding of who Mary was.
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Discovering God in Creation
Students think of examples when they have experienced or discovered God in creation.
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From the Apostles to Us
Students create a storyboard to show how God is revealed in Sacred Tradition.
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God’s Revelation through Sacred Scripture
This handout provides an outline for students to record key points taught by other groups from this section.
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Empathizing (Christianity)
This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between the various denominations of Christianity.
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Empathizing (Judaism)
This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between Christianity and Judaism.
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Empathizing (The Ancestors of the West)
This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between Christianity and polytheistic religions of the West.
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Empathizing (Buddhism)
This short handout provides questions, reflections, and suggestions to help students empathize with Buddhism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Religion in the Modern World with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and religion in the modern world.
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Comparing and Contrasting Islam with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Islam and Christianity
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Comparing and Contrasting Forms of Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in different forms of Christianity.
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Comparing and Contrasting Judaism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Judaism.
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Comparing and Contrasting the Ancestors of the West with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and the Ancestors of the West.
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Comparing and Contrasting Shinto with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Shinto.
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Comparing and Contrasting Zen Buddhism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Zen Buddhism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Taoism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Taoism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Confucianism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Confucianism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Sikhism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Sikhism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Jainism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Jainism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Buddhism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Buddhism.
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Comparing and Contrasting Hinduism with Christianity
This short handout compares and contrasts the key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Hinduism.
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An Interreligious Interview
This handout offers guidelines for setting up an interview with a person from a different religion.
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The Ninety-Nine Names of God
This handout lists the ninety-nine Islamic names for God and poses several questions regarding the list.
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"In the Beginning Was the Word"
After presenting John 1:1-18 from the Christian Bible, this handout challenges to students to identify key parts that describe the doctrine of the incarnation.
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Images of Jesus
This handout provides many different images and descriptions of Jesus for students to examine and relate to.
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Greek and Roman Gods Today
This handout challenges students to identify the associations they have with Greek and Roman gods.
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A Zoroastrian Symbol
This handout presents a Zoroastrian Symbol of faith and explains its elements. Students are then challenged to create their own symbol to represent their personal understanding of faith and human nature.
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Koans: Food for Intuition
This worksheet presents Zen koans to be interpreted or explained.
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The Sikh Khalsa
The information on this handout provides further insight into the nature of the Sikh Khalsa
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Monks
This handout is to be used as students rotate to various stations. At this station, students examine a picture depicting monks in Thailand.
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Objects Used in Tibetan Rituals
This handout is to be used as students rotate to various stations. At this station, students examine objects used in Tibetan rituals.
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Right Speech
This handout provides a reflection on students’ use of words and speech. Students identify ways to improve their use of words to speak truth and kind things.
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Right Meditation
This handout provides a space for students to write impressions, observations, or questions that arise as they meditate on a statue of Buddha.
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Helping the Church of Today and Tomorrow
This handout challenges students to reflect on and brainstorm what it would have been like to create Church teachings and rules shortly after Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes
This handout allows students to fill in the blanks as they examine the Beatitudes
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The Consequences of Moral Decisions
This handout examines how actions, attitudes, and decisions affect ourselves and the people around us
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Jesus' Priorities
An individual worksheet where students rank the priority Jesus placed on certain values in his ministry
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A Reference Guide to the Gospel Story
A partial list of scripture references for Jesus’ miracles, parables, important teachings, and life events
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Parish Council Committee Assignments
This handout assigns students to a made-up Parish Council Committee. Students must then brainstorm ideas and activities to help engage young people in the life of the parish.
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The Resurrected Jesus
Students answer questions about the story of Jesus' Resurrection from one of the four Gospels.
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Called to Share the Mission of Jesus
This small-group activity provides each group with an example of Christ's mission. Groups must answer questions surrounding their particular example.
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Jesus Had Feelings Too
Students read passages from the Gospels to explore the numerous emotions that Jesus experienced during his time on Earth.
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Scoring "My Responses to Conflict"
This handout provides the scoring that should be used to interpret the accompanying Handout 9-D.
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My Responses to Conflict
For this worksheet, students choose which behaviors match how they typically respond to conflict in relationships.
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When To Keep Things Confidential
After reading several pieces of information that might be shared by a friend, students decide which should be kept confidential and which might be shared with others.
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Whom Will You Tell?
Students identify with whom in their life they would share a list of personal pieces of information.
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Listening Traps
Students reflect on and answer a series of questions about their listening skills.
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Interpersonal Style
Students reflect on and answer a series of questions about their interpersonal style and relationships with others.
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Cases to Examine: Where Is Love?
Students read and respond to several stories about what it means to love yourself and others.
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Questionnaire on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
This handout provides a list of True/False statements about sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.
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Role-play: "I'm Pregnant"
This handout provides two role-play situations in which a couple has discovered they are pregnant.
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Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 2)
Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.
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Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 1)
Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.
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Word Association
Students identify the different associations with and meanings of sexuality as portrayed in the media, by peers, and from adults.
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Measuring Fixed Costs
On this handout students calculate the fixed expenses of an independent adult on a monthly and yearly basis.
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How Much Did You Pay for That?
Students estimate the cost of a list of items needed to live independently. This exercise is meant to help students understand the amount of money needed to survive.
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Work Values
On this handout students explore the qualities they look for or want in a job and brainstorm possible jobs that fit those qualities.
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Ranking the Prestige of Occupations
Students rank a list of careers based on their importance and prestige in society.
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Perceptions of Leisureliness
This handout provides a list of statements designed to help students evaluate the leisureliness of a specific person.
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Support for Leisure Activities
This handout asks students to decide which types of leisure activities their peers encourage them to participate in.
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Checking Your Leisure Benefits
Students categorize their favorite leisure activities based on the primary benefit they receive from each.
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Cases to Examine: Leisure or Work?
This handout presents two real-life scenarios for which students must read and answer questions.
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Leisure Satisfaction
Students list leisure activities in which they participate before rating the frequency and satisfaction for each.
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Circles of Learning
This handout provides a diagram for students to fill in as they reflect on the impact of friendship and relationships.
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Goals of Formal Education
Students rank eight possible goals of formal education based on their importance or relevance.
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Cases to Examine: Levels of Independence
Students read several scenarios and rank the level of independence demonstrated.
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Personality Perceptions of __________
Students choose adjectives from a list to describe a specific person.
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About Myself
This handout provides a series of questions for students to answer about themselves.
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How Do I Know That I Am Fully Alive?
This handout asks students to rank statements according to their beliefs about what it means to be fully alive.
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Cases to Examine: Is This Euthanasia?
This handout provides three situations for students to read and evaluate. Students must decide if the story shows an example of Euthanasia.
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Cases to Examine: Self-respect
This handout provides three situations where teenagers are not fully respecting themselves. Students read the situations and respond with suggestions that demonstrate more self-respect.
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Role-plays: Kindness and Truth
This handout provides two role-play situations for students to practice open, honest communication in a kind, truthful way.
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TV Truth: Keeping a Record
This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of the types of truths and lies portrayed on TV.
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An Inventory on Money Matters
This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of their expenditures during one week
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Cases to Examine: What Are We Afraid Of?
Students read several real-life scenarios and explore the many fears, anxieties, and pressures that influence decisions.
