Geography: World Religions Scavenger Hunt Game

Need A Fun and Effective Lesson on World Religions to Use For:

• Introductory activity

• Assessment preparation

• End-of-unit review

• Before-a-holiday activity

• A Fun Way to Take Class Notes

This lesson encourages students to work in cooperative teams to complete the World Religion Scavenger Hunt Game as they compete to achieve 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place. Student will love the lesson and will have fun learning. It is not simply a scavenger hunt, but a scavenger hunt game!

Students have 7 sections to complete: Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, and Islam.

Students will complete one section at a time, and once they have correctly answered the section they are working on, they will be allowed to move on to the next section. They are given two opportunities to answer the questions correctly, earning points for each correct answer.

This lesson requires instructor active participation throughout the entire process as he/she will be continually assessing the students answers to give them points and the "go-ahead" to move to the next section.

Student will be moving about the room and actively engaged in the learning process.

Objective(s):

Student will explore and compare major world religion.

Students will understand the differences among various cultures based on religious beliefs.

Standards:

Common core:

• WH.S.9. Understand how major religious and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean Basin, China, and India from 500 BCE to 300 CE

• WH.S.44. Understands the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world

• WH.S.44.5 Understands the role of religion in shaping modern governments

Materials:

• World Religions Scavenger Student Activity

• Writing utensils

• Teacher Answer Sheet

• Textbooks, Books, Encyclopedias and other library resources

• Internet access

Teacher Preparation:

• Plan the arrangement of students into groups of 2 or 4.

• Realize students will actively move around the room during this activity.

• Provide a table in the front of the room with books students can use to assist in answering questions.

• Provide Internet access stations for student to use.

• Set a desk in the middle or front of the classroom with the teacher answer sheet. This is where the instructor will sit during the game scoring each section for points.

This Lesson Includes 15 pages of:

• Teacher instruction

• Vocabulary Sheet for Scavenger Hunt Preparation

• Student Activity Sheets

• Blank Answer Sheet (Optional)

• Teacher Answer Key

• Additional World Document of the Student Activity Sheets for Instructor Modification.

• Suggested Helpful Websites for the Instructor to Use In Preparation for the Lesson. (Note as websites change, some of the links may not be active)

Important Note: a Word document of the game has been included in the chance that you would like to change some of the questions to meet your needs. Note that based on the version of Word that you have, the original formatting may change. You will need to reformat in this case. This is why TPT encourages us to use only PDF formatting so as not to cause issues for the purchaser. However, I realize that it would be helpful if you, the purchaser, has the ability to change questions to correspond with what you wish your students to learn. You can find the Word document within the Zip file.

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Permissions are given to the purchaser to made modifications to the game board using the Word document provided in the zip fie. No other modifications may be made to this document.

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