Lesson Plans

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  • Bread or Stone - Penitential Preparation
    Objective: Helping students to reflect on the impact that their actions have on the lives of others.
  • Psalm Y2K - on the Psalm
    Objective: Understanding that the psalms were for the people of Israel (and can still be for us) a means of expressing awareness of God's powerful presence in everyday life.
  • The Church Building/Body
    Objective: The students will reflect on "the language" of faith expressed through church architecture and liturgical environment.
  • Stations of the Cross Project
    Objective: Students will illustrate a "Station of the Cross"
  • Praying your Experiences
    Objective: The students will be invited to draw upon their personnal experiences to enter into prayer.
  • Listening to the Lord's Prayer
    Objective: The participants will be invited to meditate on the words of the Lord's prayer as the Word of God.
  • Beatitudes
    Objective: The participants will be invited to reflect on the beatitudes as blueprints for discipleship.
  • To Die for: Martyrdom
    Objective: The participants will reflect on the martyrdom of Christians in the past and be invited to reflect on the meaning of this faith witness in their own lives as followers of Christ today.
  • A Note from Jesus
    Objective: The participants will reflect on a scripture passage and be invited to respond by writing a short prayer to Jesus.
  • "Stained Glass" Bulletin Board
    Objective: The students will reflect on the uniqueness of each person and of their role in God's plan.
  • A Word of many colors
    Objective: Given a biblical notation, the students will be able to find the passage in the Bible.
  • "Bless me!"
    Objective: The students will be invited to reflect on how what we say to or about others either "blesses" them or "curses" them.
  • " I Believe ..."
    Objective: Students will be invited to refect on the Nicene Creed and to write their own creed.
  • "Love Mirror..."
    Objective: Students will be invited to reflect on 1 Corinthian 13; 3-7 and to use this text as a "mirror" to examine the quality of their love for others.
  • "Love Letters"
    Objective: Experience the love of God in the love of one's parents and through scriptures.
  • Contefeit love
    Objective: The students will reflect on the difference between love and infatuation.
  • A Byte of Bible a Day
    Objective: The students will be invited to read Scriptures and to react to it in writing.
  • Classroom Activities - Saints
    A few suggestions of activities aiming at helping students learn about Saints, identify with them, and reflect on the role of saints.
  • "Let me Count the Ways"
    Objective: The student will make a list of possible loving actions and implement a few of them.
  • "Making Space for God"
    Objectives: The students will be invited to let God enter more fully into their lives.
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