Resources

Here we will provide resources for use by school teachers that have been developed as part of our project Approaching Religion Through Story. This page is a work in progress, so please check back later to see more materials. If you have any feedback about the resources or would like to share your experiences of using them please get in touch: Dr Alison Jack (a.jack [AT] ed.ac.uk) and Dr Naomi Appleton (naomi.appleton [AT] ed.ac.uk) – we’d love to hear from you!

Although the resources have been created in consultation with Education Scotland and Scottish school teachers, we hope they will also be useful to teachers in other parts of the UK (or even beyond). Please do let us know if you are using them elsewhere, and how you get on!

How to use the resources

The resources are provided as pdf files for ease of downloading, printing and copying. Simply click on the link to download.

Some stories also have Powerpoint files with images relating to the story.

The stories are ordered by religious tradition (currently Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam) and according to the three structuring principles of the experiences and outcomes for RME in Scotland: Beliefs, Values and Issues, and Practices and Traditions. Keywords are also provided to indicate the particular relevance of the story. To search for a particular keyword use the search function in your browser.

Each of the stories is accompanied by notes for teachers (providing background information) and suggested discussion questions (to be adjusted as necessary for different learners and levels).

For suggested classroom activities involving stories, arranged according to level, please see Classroom Activities Using Stories, a resource created by our consultant teachers Louise Hepburn, Martin Downes and Robert O’Neill.

You can also download Lesson Plans and other resources created by fellow teachers.

A full booklet of resources for Christian and Buddhist traditions including a keyword index, as distributed at our launch event in May 2016, can also be freely downloaded, printed and circulated as desired. Since the launch we have added resources for Hinduism and are currently developing resources for Islam.

Resources provided as part of the project Approaching Religion Through Story are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. They are free to use, copy and adapt for all non-commercial purposes.