Alright. Before I start, I want you all to know that this is going to be a looooong post. So, be prepared to spend at least a whopping 5 whole minutes reading about a socially awkward 8th grader’s journey through the wonderful world of religions.
Hi there again. It’s Jason. In this post, I will do my best to try to explain our latest unit, religion and worldview. So, when we started this unit, we learned about what a worldview is. It’s basically what the name suggests. Your view of the world. Of course, everyone’s worldview is different. This is what led to the first project of the unit, where we used a new app. The legendary Explain Everything. Long story short, the app was confusing. Our project was to pick three of these topics:
My three topics were Society, Values, and Knowledge. Then, you think of some stories about your 3 topics and talk about them in your EE (Explain Everything) with some pictures and animations.
After we finished the whole worldview stuff, we dove head-first into the wonderful and confusing world of religion. First we started with making new groups for a whole new project. I was put into a group with Nik, Grace, and Izzy. Our first religion that we studied was Aboriginal Spirituality, And we were tasked with making a chart of all of the religions that we studied. After Aboriginal Spirituality, we studied Judaism, then Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
After we finished our religion studies, we started on our main project. We were tasked with creating an infographic about a religion. More importantly, it was supposed to be about the worldview of the followers of that religion. First, we picked our religions. We picked Judaism as our religion to study. After we picked our religions, we wrote down what we knew about that religion and any important things that relate to the worldview. Then, we went on field studies to each of the holy places. We had to present our data to each of our respective religions. For us, it was the Synagogue. Also, we went to CHIPOTLE!
Here are some photos from our expeditions:
The Islamic Mosque
The Jewish Synagogue
The Hindu Temple
The Buddhist Temple
The Sikh Gurdwara
And Last but not least, The Christian Church
Then, we got to work on our infographics. Our original idea was for the background to be a desert, but it ended up looking like an old paper, so we changed the image. Then, we had to fix a text problem. The problem being that we had too much text, so we changed that. The app that we used to make our infographic was pages. We had many drafts and were critiqued multiple times on how we could improve it, and then we finally finished it.
We were pretty proud of our final draft and we were one of the first groups to finish our worldview/religion infographic. Here are some of the other groups’.
Ok. I guess that’s it. I hope you learned a lot about religion and worldview from the infographics that we made. I hope you enjoyed this post, and make sure to check out some of my other posts.
Yours Truly, Jason
Socially Awkward And Proud Of It