Year 5 and 6
How Does Worshipping God Make a Difference to Hindus?
Year 5 and 6
Christianity/
Islam/Humanism
Engage
Introduce the key
question: Who or
what is God?
Suggested
Week 1
ATT 1: Learning about religion and belief
Who are Hindus and how do they worship?
ATT 2: Learning from religion and belief
How does worship make a difference to people’s
everyday lives?
Children engage by ‘having a go’ at some Indian dancing using the Bollywood DVD which demonstrates
clear step by step instructions with music.
Ask the children the following:
Why do people dance?
How do you think it makes them feel?
What can dance represent?
Are there different types of dancing?
Do we dance for different reasons?
Explain to the children that often Hindus celebrate their religious beliefs and festivals through
traditional Indian dancing.
Introduce the key question: How Does Worshipping God Make a Difference to Hindus?
Enquire
Develop questions
about Hindus and
their religious
What questions do we need to ask in order to better understand how worshipping God makes a
difference to Hindus?
Create enquiry questions with the children, ideally these questions should be generated by the
beliefs.
Suggested
Week 2
Explore
children but could include the following:
E.g.
What is a Hindu?
How do they worship?
Who do they worship?
Are there different types of Hindu worship?
Why do Hindus worship?
Where do they worship?
When do they worship?
What do they use to worship?
Do all Hindus worship (age?)
Are there special times of worship?
Why is worship important to Hindus?
Explaining the Hindu view of god. (For background info look at powerpoint in resource folder/
download page – Hinduism – Introduction to Hindu Gods.ppt)
Who are Hindus and
how do they worship?
How is this important Introduction to worship
Children could watch these and report back or watch as a class.
to them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/4796.html Explanation of Hinduism’s many gods being one
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/puja/4799.html PUJA
Suggested
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/hindu-family-life/3622.html Worship in the home
Week 3/4
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/worship-in-a-hindu.../3619.html Worship in the temple
Teacher led (how do hindus worship - puja). Explain that the traditional form of Puja includes the
same elements as the traditional Hindu way of welcoming a guest into their home.
Making a class shrine (use music, insense and lights) Talk through the elements as you set it up
together.( Flowers, rice, candles, Icon)
Om sound – what does it mean. Maybe do some art work around this.
Teacher led – how do they worship – Dharma – Mahabharata
natural conduct of living
Hindu traditional stories that teach dharma (Books or youtube)
Going through the power point about Bhagavad Gita as a class.
From the stories what can we tell about how dharma effects Food, Jobs, actions towards others and
animal.
Evaluate
Responding to,
analysing and
evaluating what they
have learned
Interview a Hindu or find Hinduism interview
 Going through the power point about Hindu religious beliefs
 Introduce the festival of Diwali by watching the clip 4794
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips
 Go through the Diwali power point
Refer back to the enquire stage. Have we answered our questions?
Do we have an idea of how Hindus worship and why this makes a difference to them?
Using large sheets of paper on each table with one of each of the children’s questions ask the
children to circulate and add their own views to each question.
– have we answered
our questions?
Discuss any differences and similarities.
Suggested
Week 4
Focus back to the key question.
Express
The final task is introduced.
Children answer the key question ‘How does worshipping god make a difference to Hindus?’ with
one of the following activities:
 Children to design and make a quiz or game about Hindu worship
 Children can choose to either make a board game, a card game (Top Trump style) or use the
laptops and make a ‘who wants to be a millionaire?’ style quiz, although all the games must
involve questions and answers about Hindu worship and how this makes a difference to their
lives.
Expressing
knowledge and
understanding –
children answer the
key question.
Suggested
Week 5/6