Back at it again with another blog post. We just finished a unit before the Christmas break called “Worldview and World religions”. Happy New Year’s to everyone, although it’s a little late already.
Anyways we’ve covering this subject for a while now and we had a few field trips and two projects during the span of it. We have studied several religions over the course of the unit. They are: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
First Project
After having studied the concept of worldview for 1 week and a half we were tasked with using a new app to make a video about 3-5 minutes long. The app was called Explain Everything. In the app you can draw while your talking and it’ll show up on your screen during the video. You can also combine a bunch of other apps into it to make certain sounds or animations. The project was to pick three topics that are important to you and have changed your worldview. These three topics had bigger divisions that were part of the 7 things in worldview (below).
If you’re reading this, my video didn’t upload when I tried. I’ll try again later.
Field Trips
We went on 3 excursions during the unit. During the three we went to a Sikh Temple, a Buddhist Temple, a Hindu Temple, a mosque, a synagogue, and a church. At each place somebody was there to help us understand their worldview and how it has been affected by the religion they choose. They also explained to us what they did there, how they prayed and certainly things about the religion we didn’t have in our charts already.
First field trip:
Mosque pictures:
Synagogue pictures:
Second field trip:
We went to Richmond for a day where they have a street that has like 20 religious properties in a row.
Hindu Temple pictures:
Buddhist temple pictures:
Sikh Temple pictures (we had lunch there and it turns out they can only serve vegetarian foods really, but man was it great, with fresh made naan bread):
Third field trip:
We went to a church and met up with the father of the church. He explained to us many things and we asked a few questions about things we saw or experienced.
Second Project
Our second project was to make infographics in groups of 4 about a certain religion’s worldview. My group and I got Christianity. I referred to my chart a few times but sometimes it felt like religion is a really interesting and confusing topic.
We started off of with a wireframe (below).
After the wireframe we started off our infographic. Our first draft was horrendous and was just a picture of Jesus with a Fish and a loaf of bread beside him. THis represents that our group didn’t work well at the start. The other groups were way ahead by then. We still managed to hand it in on time.
Our second attempt was this. We’d used another app, added symbols and had decide on making almost like a circle or a square around Jesus.
We our third try was getting somewhere. We put the arrows in to make a cycle and so and order of who to read it.Was really crowded so we had to change it up. The colour coordination had improved. The main colours were white, golden yellow and and blue.
And finally this is what got approved. We changed the text colour so it would pop out a bit more. We spaced things out to make it more organized. We made the chart better with it being a perfect circle and not what we made before which a picture that had been edited 3 or 4 times. We added a box of text at the top so we could have 2 squares instead of one and an unfinished one. We decided on not blurring the clouds into the image but instead put a border around them.
These are some of the other groups’ infographics.
These two groups infographic had the most progress overall according to the teacher. I can see why. And they kept ahead the whole time.
Religions’ Chart
In order to remember better what we learned and have information right there, we had to make a chart with different religions and there similarities, differences, and traditions. For our second project we refferred to the chart often and we had some activities like worksheets that basically required the chart. We had to write things down in our own words so it got engraved in our heads and we could understand it better. While making it, I learned that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all have the same roots so they actually have a great amount of things in common. For Buddhism and HInduism there is also a great similarity, they believe in reincarnation. You can read more by clicking the link below the pictures.
These are the symbols of the religions we studied.our group didn’t
Here’s a link to my chart.
Until next time.