In today’s climate, the question of faith is a significant issue. Families no longer go to mass each week, many pledge that they don’t believe in God, while schools are homes to a variety of different faiths. Thus studying the question of faith will be very different to how it was a few years ago.
I start these lessons off by finding out what the students know first. I ask students in their groups to brainstorm what is a religious belief and what is a religious practice. From there we make a class definition of what each one is. Then the students are divided into different groups again and they discuss how religion is practiced in Ireland today. They then divide the page into two. On one side they write how religion is practiced today and on the other side they write how it was practice years ago. Each group then sticks up their sheets on the whiteboard. Everyone goes up to the board with their notebook and takes note of similarities and differences between the practices in the past and present.
I then go through the following PowerPoint with them. I try to constantly build on the information that they already know so that they feel that they are part of generating the information.
Recap on Religious FAith and Practice
I would then end the lesson by getting the students to write on a post-it one thing they already knew a
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