Hindus: what do Hindu stories teach about life and the world?
Downloads can take a few minutes, especially for larger files or slower connections.
Threads
Why this why now
After spending some time looking at Abrahamic traditions, pupils now spend a unit beginning to explore Hindu Dharma. This worldview is chosen as it is the oldest in the world. Stories are used as a way of emebedding some complex ideas. The concept of dharma will be built upon in Year 4 and 6. Worldviews such as Sikhi will be shown to have grown out of the Hindu Dharma.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils will have looked at stories from Abrahamic traditions to look at deeper meanings.
- Pupils will know that Hindus worship at home and in the Mandir.
- Pupils may have an understanding of the festivals celebrated in Hindu Dharma especially Diwali and Holi.
Threads
Why this why now
After spending some time looking at Abrahamic traditions, pupils now spend a unit beginning to explore Hindu Dharma. This worldview is chosen as it is the oldest in the world. Stories are used as a way of emebedding some complex ideas. The concept of dharma will be built upon in Year 4 and 6. Worldviews such as Sikhi will be shown to have grown out of the Hindu Dharma.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils will have looked at stories from Abrahamic traditions to look at deeper meanings.
- Pupils will know that Hindus worship at home and in the Mandir.
- Pupils may have an understanding of the festivals celebrated in Hindu Dharma especially Diwali and Holi.
Theology
Hindus: what do Hindu stories teach about life and the world?
In this unit pupils begin to explore the Hindu Dharma. Through four stories they will draw out key ideas about the divine, compassion and pluralism that they will revisit throughout the curriculum.
6 lessons in unit
slide decks, worksheet PDFs, quizzes and lesson overviews. You can select individual lessons from the Hindus: what do Hindu stories teach about life and the world? unit and download the resources you need, or download the entire unit now. See every unit listed in our primary religious education curriculum and discover more of our teaching resources for primary religious education programmes.