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Year 2

Creation: deeper meanings

I can explore the deeper meanings of the creation story for Jews and Christians.

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Year 2

Creation: deeper meanings

I can explore the deeper meanings of the creation story for Jews and Christians.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Jews and Christians share a belief that God created the world.
  2. The idea of a day of rest is shared by Christians and Jews although it is interpreted differently.
  3. Different Christians and Jews have different interpretations of the creation story.

Keywords

  • Creation - the act of making something

  • Shabbat - Jewish day of rest and celebration

  • Rest - to stop work in order to relax

Common misconception

Christians and Jews all understand the creation story in the same way.

There are different ways to interpret and understand the creation stories in the Bible.


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Play musical statues to provoke discussion about busyness/activity and rest.
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Lesson video

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is the Bible?
Correct answer: a holy book for Christians
a book of science
a book only about animals
Q2.
What is the Torah?
a book of poems
Correct answer: a holy book for Jews
a school textbook
Q3.
What is the first book of the Bible and the Torah?
Exodus
Matthew
Correct answer: Genesis
Q4.
Who shares the creation story in Genesis?
only Christians
Correct answer: Christians and Jews
only Muslims
Q5.
What did God make on the sixth day?
the stars
the sea
Correct answer: animals and people

5 Questions

Q1.
On the seventh day, God stopped to from his work.
Correct Answer: rest, Rest
Q2.
What do Jews call their special day of rest?
Sunday
Correct answer: Shabbat
Eid
Q3.
What is one way Christians and Jews are different in beliefs?
Correct answer: They see creation stories in different ways.
They all rest on Fridays.
They think God made the world in eight days.
Q4.
Why do Jewish families light candles on Shabbat?
to help them see in the dark
to mark a birthday
Correct answer: to remember God made light
Q5.
What is a deeper meaning Christians find in the story?
God was sleepy.
God used magic.
Correct answer: God is powerful and made everything.