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To the Anchor: In today's WCUU broadcast, Roving Reporter wanders around UUville and asks citizens what they believe happens when we die. Your job is to follow the script, read your part and otherwise keep things going....Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page -
Unitarian Universalism — We all can have different ideas about an afterlife, whether it exists, and what it might be like. We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done.(Our century-long Universalist heritage taught that...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Unitarian Universalism — We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done. We may hold different ideas about the nature or existence of an afterlife. Roman Catholicism — We believe people are judged when they die, based on...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Here are some ideas about death. Use check marks to show whether you agree or disagree. Remember—this is a private page. You can share it with others if you want, but you do not have to. Agree Disagree _____ _____ Thinking about God can help you explain life and death. _____ _____ Science is...Handout | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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To the Kid for the Day: You have two jobs. The first is getting your group excited about hearing today's Big Question. The second is announcing the question. 1. Say to the group, "Give me a drum roll!" Then wait for a minute while the drum roll builds....Handout | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Based on excerpts, adapted with permission, from Love and Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow by Forrest Church (Beacon Press, 2008). Reverend Forrest Church is a minister of a very large Unitarian Universalist church in New York City. Rev. Church has cancer....Story | By Forrest Church | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, What I Think Paper, envelopes that can be sealed and pens/pencils for all participants Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 2 for all participants. Description of Activity If you have time, use this activity at the end of this session.Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Orders of service for funerals or memorials recently held in your congregation Obituaries or newspaper articles about congregational members and friends who have recently died Unitarian Universalist books or pamphlets about death Congregational...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Preparation for Activity Prepare to tell youth about attempts scientists have made to find out what happens when we die. Find the experiments in the activity description, plus others, in...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Optional: Newsprint, markers and tape Preparation for Activity Optional: Write the challenge question on newsprint, and post. Optional: Browse the Internet and see what you find to share....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 8 minutes Materials for Activity Copy(ies) of the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition Optional: A recording of the hymns and a music player Preparation for Activity Decide how best to present the songs "In Sweet Fields of Autumn," Hymn 52 in Singing the Liv...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Bag or box containing participants' Big Questions notebooks (see Session 1, Alternate Activity 1, Notable Thoughts) Blank notebooks for new participants Pencils or pens Masking tape Preparation for Activity Retrieve participants' Big Questions...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers and tape For Part 1: Candles and matches or a substitute; (optional) a large tray filled with sand for supporting multiple votive candles; (optional) copies of the words for unison reading(s) or song(s) you plan to include;...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Matching Belief Systems and Statements Leader Resource 2, Belief Systems and Statements - Leader Key Optional: Tape or pins to fasten paper to clothing Preparation for Activity Print out Leader Resource 1....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Meet with co-leaders after the session to reflect on how it went. How was your mix of discussion and action? How comfortable did youth seem when sharing ideas about death? Did you manage to convey the information you wanted to while respecting their own ideas?...October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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With everything for the session set to go, carve out a meditative moment for yourself. Relax. Take several deep breaths. Explore your current understanding of what happens when we die. Recall your encounters with death as a child and youth. What were your ideas then about what happens when a life...October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Who Believes What? 10 Activity 2: Story — Reflections by Forrest Church 7 Activity 3: WCUU — Visit to UUville 15 Activity 4: WIT Time — Memorial Rituals 20 Faith in Action: Capital Punishment 30 Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Notable Thoughts 5 Alternate...October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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The question is not whether we will die but how we have lived. — Joan Borysenko, psychologist Big Question: What happens when we die? In one sense, all of us may one day know the answer, for death is surely our fate. Yet none of us can know it in life....October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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1. Is the theory of evolution the best way to explain how life began? Yes — No 2. I would rather study . . . Myths — Science 3. I think that something or someone had to start the whole process of evolution. Call it God, or call it Mystery or whatever, but whatever you call it, it had to be...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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To the Anchor: Today's WCUU program talks about a UU scientist's attempt to have life named the greatest wonder of the world. Your job is to follow the script, read your part, and otherwise keep things going. When the broadcast begins, you are alone on camera, sitting or standing in front of a...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page