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Supplemental Lesson Plans for Children

Bahá’í School Lesson Plans (1968-1976)

These materials were prepared between 1968 and 1978 at the request of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, as a series of specific teaching units for Bahá’í children’s classes. The emphasis in this series is on the major topics of the Bahá’í Faith, and the various units represent a wide variety of approaches to stimulate the children’s interests. These materials provide an excellent resource of lessons and activities that may be used to teach the goals and topics established in the Core Curriculum framework. As guides to assist in planning your children’s classes, the scope and sequence chart may be used to identify Core Curriculum goals and topics, and the Curriculum Alignment offers suggestions as to how a variety of available materials supports these goals and topics.

Grade Kindergarten
Unit 1 — History: Progressive Revelation
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Spiritual Qualities
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Bahá’ís Around the World

Grade 1
Unit 1 — History: Bahá’í Heroes
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Knowledge of God Through His Prophets
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Elimination of Prejudice

Grade 2
Unit 1 — History: The Báb
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: The Nature of Creation
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Oneness of Mankind

Grade 3
Unit 1 — History: Bahá’u’lláh
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Man’s Relation to God
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Science and Religion

Grade 4
Unit 1 — History: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Rewards of Obedience
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Principle of Consultation

Grade 5
Unit 1 — History: Shoghi Effendi
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: The Example of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Living in the Community

Grade 6
Unit 1 — History: Hands of the Cause of God
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Immortality of the Soul
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Nature of True Education

Grade 7
Unit 1 — History: History of Religions
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Covenants of God
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Justice

Grade 8
Unit 1 — History Heroic Age of the Faith
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Bahá’í Organizations
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: World Government

Grade 9
Unit 1 — History: Formative Age of the Faith
Unit 2 — Teachings for the Individual: Teaching the Cause of God
Unit 3 — Social Teachings: Bahá’í Institutions