Christianity: The Seven Sacraments

The Seven Sacraments
A collage Activity

Religion: Christianity

Purpose: to reinforce and test familiarity regarding this aspect of Christianity

Cognitive Skills: knowledge , comprehension, analysis

Learning Styles: visual, sensing

Intelligences: visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic

Use: in classroom, as homework

For: individuals, pairs, small groups

Estimated time: 15 - 30 minutes (though reflective and global thinkers might want to take more time as they think about and stumble across images as they go about their daily life)

Materials needed: paper or poster board, glue, scissors, Christian magazines, church brochures, clip art and other sources for images, marker(s) to label images.

Note: can be done in front of the TV, or listening to music

The Activity:

Locate images of Christians participating in each of the seven sacraments (refer to your reading or lecture notes, if needed)
Images will most likely be found in Christian magazines and church brochures. You can also use clip art or images you locate on the Web. Try to find several images for each sacrament.
Students can be asked to bring in sources for images or look for them at home and bring them in ready to contribute to poster. Alternatively, students may work on individual posters as homework.
paste images for each sacrament onto your poster and label them accordingly

Alternative possibilities: any topic which lends itself to categories (such as kinds of animals, things associated with various countries or famous people, historical time periods, etc.)