Lesson Plans
These Lesson Plans are geared for assist teachers of students in grades K-12 introduce material and generate student discussion and activity around migration-related themes and Catholic Social Teaching on this topic.
| Grade 4 (Sample Lesson Plan for ages 9-12) (.pdf, 304KB)
The Students will be able to:
- demonstrate an appreciation for our own culture and the gifts of other cultures;
- demonstrate awareness that all persons reflect God’s image
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Grade 7 (Sample Lesson Plan for ages 12-14) (.pdf, 432KB)
The Students will be able to:
- Appreciate how our culture is enriched by the diversity of immigrant cultures;
- Identify essentials of Catholic Christian responses to immigrants in the United States.
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| Grade 10 Part I (Sample Lesson Plan for ages 15-18) (.pdf, 300KB)
The Students will be able to:
- Define racism, prejudice, stereotype, xenophobia, and ethnocentrism and share examples they may have experienced in their own lives
- Recognize ways that racism, prejudice, stereotyping, xenophobia and ethnocentrism are prevalent in our culture
- Become aware of the negative effects of racism, prejudice etc., especially with reference to immigrants and culturally diverse persons in the United States Know about and identify the Gospel messages that urge moving beyond the barriers of racism, prejudice, and stereotyping (especially the Good Samaritan)
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Grade 10 Part II (Sample Lesson Plan for ages 15-18) (.pdf, 272KB)
The Students will be able to:
- identify and apply Catholic social teaching related to immigrants and refugees;
- define and understand the terms: alien, undocumented immigrant;
- reflect God's call to welcome the stranger in their midst.
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