New to this website?

You might want to start with Reimagining Sunday School. This short essay gives useful background for the curriculums on this website.

Materials to support curriculum

The Supporting Materials page contains links to a big collection of games, a big collection of stories, and a variety of other material that can be used to support religious education programming.

Featured curriculums

Ecojustice Class: For grades 6-8. A year-long project-based curriculum that teaches ecojustice concepts through hands-on activities. For example, students help build a simple rocket stove, cook on it, while also learning how rocket stoves help women who have to cook using wood fuels. N.B.: Many of the lessons take the students outdoors, and the curriculum will have to be adjusted for climate, season, and bioregion.

Cooking over a fuel-efficient rocket stove, using biomass instead of fossil fuels, in Ecojustice Class.

Neighboring Religious Communities: For grades 6-8. Two curriculum years, 24 lessons each year. Has been taught online (with online visits), or in person (with in-person visits). Still in development, but lesson plans are complete. Planned future development includes adding more material consistent with American Academy of Religion guidelines for religious literacy; adding hints for online teaching; updating video resources.

Screenshot of the Neighboring Religious Communities curriculum showing the introductory video.

From Long Ago: For grades 3-5. Eight sessions. Story-based curriculum introducing stories from many religions. Based on the old Sophia Fahs “From Long Ago and Many Lands” curriculum, updated with insights from contemporary religious studies. This curriculum reduces the Euro-centric bias found in many UU curriculums. The From Many Lands curriculum continues the series with another 8 session plans.

Four colorful hand puppets made from paper bags.
Hand puppet project for one of the sessions in From Many Lands.

Judean Village: A six-week workshop rotation curriculum that introduces participants to a Judean village in the year 29. Children are apprentices in village workshops, where they hear rumors of a traveling rabbi named Jesus who teaches the equality of all persons. Meanwhile, Roman soldiers and tax collectors oppress the villagers. Based on the old Marketplace 20 A.D. curriculum, updated with UU theology.

A pair of hands working with clay.
One of the projects from the Judean Village curriculum.

Coming of Age: A flexible curriculum for Coming of Age that can be adapted to a wide range of congregations and schedules. This curriculum is laser-focused on preparing teens to think about their religious self-identity, putting that identity into words, and successfully reading their statement of religious identity in a worship service. This curriculum is inclusive of persons from diverse backgrounds, and it incorporates new insights about religion from religious studies scholars.

Life-sized idealized self-portraits made from plywood mounted on a wall.
Plywood self-portraits from the Coming of Age curriculum.