Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council

UUPCC
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Partnership RE Materials

Notes on the Religious Education phone call on November 4, 2006 with Ruth Gibson

This section of the web site provides a wide variety of RE materials for both adults and children.The grids below will help you find the materials that will best meet your goals.

Are you interested in materials for children or adults?

Materials on this PCC RE Materials Website

Listings of all materials by age group, use, topic area, and number of sessions.

GRID--PCC-revised materials (revised 2/2003) PDF file 120 KB, MS Word file 27 KB
GRID--Other (revised 2/2003) PDF file 115 KB, MS Word file 26 KB

For Partner Church RE Committees and RE Teachers

Title	Developed by	Available Formats
Partner Church Possibilities in the Religious Education Curriculum: a message to send to RE Teachers and RE Committee members	Mary Tripp, Fairfax VA	PDF file 99 KB	MS Word 25 KB
How To Include Your Partnership Connection in Curriculum for A Coming of Age Class	John Dale, Atlanta GA	PDF file 59 KB	MS Word 25 KB

Courses (and Handouts) For Adults

Title	Developed by	Available Formats
History of European Unitarianism Course—six sessions	Jeanne Kocsis and Flora Majumder, Northampton/Florence MA	PDF file 204 KB	MS Word 58 KB
List of Selected Dates in General European and Transylvanian History		PDF file 80 KB	MS Word 22 KB
Quiz for History of European Unitarianism course		PDF file 83 KB	MS Word 27 KB
Bibliography on European Unitarianism		PDF file 76 KB	MS Word 12 KB
Our Transylvanian Roots — three sessions for a congregation deciding whether to form a travel group to visit their partner	Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 139 KB	MS Word 36 KB
Course Reading: “Crowns and Dreams-—A History of Queen Isabella of Transylvania”	sermon by Kendal Gibbons	PDF file 102 KB	MS Word 33 KB
Course Reading: Gulbrandsen and Schulz Report to the 1990 General Assembly	Natalie Gulbrandsen, Weston MA and William Schulz, New York NY	PDF file 87 KB	MS Word 35 KB
Four Short History Skits for use in Adult Education courses on Transylvanian history or theology	Kinga Zsigtmond, St. Paul, Transylvania	PDF file 72 KB	MS Word 28 KB

Curricula for Children and Youth

Who Are Our Partners Around the World: 6 lessons (three more to come). Middle school children and Elementary Children (ages 8-13) (by Betsy Williams).

Title	Description	Age Group	Developed by	Available Formats
*A Mural of Our Church:*	An Exchange Project with our Partner Church for children and youth	5-12 or 5-17	Mary Tripp, Fairfax VA	PDF file 126 KB	MS Word 43 KB
*A Partner Church Sunday*	Four lessons for classes of Grades K-8	K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8	Gabrielle Farrell, St. Louis MO	PDF file 161 KB	MS Word 52 KB
*Including Your Partnership in Coming of Age Classes*	How To Including Your Partnership Connection in Curriculum for A Coming of Age Class		John Dale, Atlanta GA	PDF file 59 KB	MS Word 25 KB
*Around the Church, Around the Year*	Our Partner Church--Lesson #21: “Our Favorite Objects		Revised for use by partner churches by Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF File	MS Word
*Travel in Time*	Two new PCC lessons “The King Who Listened to His Mother,” and “Visit to a Transylvanian Village”		Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 1214 KB	MS Word 963 KB
*How-To instructions for Transylvania Boxes and Luminaria*			Used with permission from UU&Me Dec 1999	PDF file 1319 KB	MS Word 1031 KB

Games for Children

The UUPCC provides several board games to teach children about our partners around the world. Each game page provides a series of pdf files, which contain the boards and cards to play the game. Each page also lists the additional materials needed to play the game.Some of these files can be quite large, so please be patient when downloading them. The lessons are presented below in the order they were intended to be used.

General instructions on downloading the games can be found here

1.A lesson Our Partners Around the World can be found here.

2.The game Our Partners in the Kashi Hills can be found here.

3.The game Our Partners in Transylvania can be found here.

4.A min-way exercise on What is Partnership? can be found here

5.The game Our Partners in the Philippines can be found here.

6.The game Our Partners in North America can be found here.

How-Tos and Other Resources for Children and Youth

Title	Description		Age Group	Developed by	Available Formats
	Description and explanation of a 5-6 Grade Unitarian RE class in Varfalva in Transylvania		5-6 Grade	by Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 70 KB	MS Word 27 KB
*How to make Friendship Books and Picture Letters*	How to make Friendship Books and Picture Letters which can be carefully completed and sent to friends (usually of the same age) in your partner congregation			by Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 95 KB	MS Word 27 KB
*Greetings and Other Useful Hungarian Phrases*	Greetings and Other Useful Hungarian Phrases			by Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 87 KB	MS Word 27 KB
Same as above “Greetings and Other Useful Hungarian Phrases” in Grid form					PDF file 117 KB	MS Word 26 KB
*How to write a little letter in Hungarian to your Transylvanian friends*		How to write a little letter in Hungarian to your Transylvanian friends		by Ruth Gibson, Denver CO	PDF file 117 KB	MS Word 26 KB

Partnership RE Materials

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