Curricular Resources
New Sexuality Education Resource for Young Children
- It's Not the Stork! A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends. Available through the UUA Bookstore.
From author Robie Harris and illustrator Michael Emberley, the award-winning team behind It's Perfectly Normal and It's So Amazing! comes a book for younger children about where babies come from and what makes them a girl or a boy. It's Not the Stork! answers young children's straightforward, simple, and, at the same time, often profound questions about their bodies, gender, and how they were made. Even their simplest questions such as “Where did I come from?" are complicated and can be difficult to answer. It's Not the Stork! answers these questions with honest, clear, and reassuring language that is comfortable for young children and adults alike.
New Disability Awareness Resource
- Disability Awareness—Do It Right! A Handbook. Edited by Mary Johnson.
Simulation exercises—activities in which participants get into wheelchairs, tie on blindfolds or stuff earplugs into their ears to "simulate" having a disability—have become a popular "Awareness Day" event. But they've also come under fire from disability activists and educators, who criticize them as demeaning and inaccurate.
Disability Awareness—Do It Right! A Handbook, recommended by UUA's accessibilities specialist, Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, offers you an all-in-one how-to guide from the Ragged Edge Online community, with tips, techniques and handouts for a successful Awareness Day. Short background articles and planning lists help you organize fun and effective Awareness Day activities that disability rights activists support. Concise, easy-to-read chapters show you how to carry out 6 specific types of activities, how to handle follow-up discussion and even how to spur social change.
Peace Corps Curricular Resources
Peace Corps offers sessions plans, lovely narratives written by Peace Corps volunteers and other resources from its “Worldwise Schools,” section. It is an excellent site for child-appropriate, internationally focused stories and programs.
- Session Plan: “Enough to make your head spin.” Nonverbal communication (grades 3-5 and 6-8). As with most sessions it includes a central story written as a peace corps volunteer's reflection online and ready for use.
- Session Plan: “How Two Cultures Differ: Two Different Perspectives on the Same Event.” Running (grades 6-8). Participants explore how the same event can have different meanings depending on who engages in the event and the cultural context of interpretation.
Science Resources & Experiments from Exploratorium
The Exploratorium offers excellent science experiments, resources and activities that can offer some good curricular additions or alternatives.
Wisdom Stories Resources
There's nothing like a good story. But finding stories can take a lot of time. While we have yet to find the perfect story site, the following sites offer stories organized in manners that make them searchable.
- Story-telling site with some good wisdom tales
- Aesops Tales
- Generosity of Spirit, Myths and Folktales: Stories Organized by Character Traits
- Folklink: Folk and Fairy Tale Site offers many other email sites for classic folk stories
Noteworthy Adult Faith Development Resources
Unitarian Universalist Programs available in full online!
- Principled Commitment (Beta Version)
This program for Unitarian Universalist couples is currently available for use during this testing and feedback gathering phase of the program's development. - Owning Your Religious Past (PDF)
This 25th Anniversary Edition is an updated, online version of this classic curriculum.
Last updated on Friday, September 25, 2009.
