Spirit of Adventure,
UU Identity Curriculum
by Kate Tweedie Covey
A new approach to UU curricula - written especially for active 2nd - 5th graders.
Table of Contents
Session # 1 Sports -- What is your favorite sport?
Session # 2 Sports -- Lessons for Life
Session # 3 Sports -- In the Congregation
Session # 4 Sports -- The Good and The Bad
Session # 5 Medicine -- Saving Lives, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Session # 6 Medicine -- A Special Doctor, Albert Schweitzer
Session # 7 Medicine -- Learn First Aid
Session # 8 Medicine -- Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
Session # 9 Halloween -- Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Session # 10 Food -- Stone Soup Sunday
Session # 11 Food -- Fannie Farmer, Unitarian "Domestic Scientist"
Session # 12 Food -- Popcorn Sale!
Session # 13 Food -- Doggy Treats and Henry Bergh, Unitarian founder of the ASPCA
Session # 14 Food -- A Visitor
Session # 14 Winter Holidays -- Unitarian Charles Dickens
Session # 15 Winter Holidays -- Jingle Bells
Session # 16 Winter Holidays -- Winter Solstice
Session # 17 Winter Holidays -- Hannukah
Session # 18 Winter Holidays -- A Visitor
Session # 19 Science -- A Take Apart Party, Tim Berners-Lee
Session # 20 Science -- Comets and Constellations, Maria Mitchell
Session # 21 Science -- Inventions, Alexander Graham Bell
Session # 22 Science -- A Visitor
Session # 23 Building -- Jell-O by Unitarian Peter Cooper
Session # 24 Building -- Frank Lloyd Wright, Unitarian architect
Session # 25 Building -- Frank Lloyd Wright, harmony with nature.
Session # 26 Building -- A Visitor
Session # 27 Building -- Daniel Chester French, Unitarian Sculptor
Session # 28 Exploring -- Try Something New! Viljhamur Stefansson
Session # 29 Exploring -- Treasure Maps and N.C.Wyeth
Session # 30 Exploring -- A Visitor
Session # 31 Web of Life -- Henry David Thoreau
Session # 32 Web of Life -- P.T.Barnum, Universalist
Session # 33 Web of Life -- Beatrix Potter
Session # 34 Web of Life -- A Visitor
Session # 35 Web of Life -- Blessing of the Animals
Sample Lessons and Overview- download these Word Documents
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Session #11 Food - Fannie Farmer, "Domestic Scientist"
Make pancakes using measuring cups that Fannie invented.
Session #19 Science - Take Apart Party
What makes computers tick? Find out about the "Father of the World Wide Web."
Session #28 Exploring - Try Something New.
Try sardines, smoked oysters, and other exotic fish like explorer Viljhamur Stefansson did with the Eskimos.
Check out the Overview, including the Introduction, describing the unique aspects of "Spirit of Adventure."
This page was last updated on: July 1, 2008
Spirit of Adventure, UU Identity for 2-5th graders. 2005. 255 pp. Format: 3 ring notebook easy for teachers to use.
