Sowing Small Seeds
Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Care of Creation so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.
Student Art Honoring Mary
2025 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest
Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!
2025 Lesson Plan
(Volume 9, No.1)
Care Of Creation
Sowing Small Seeds
Objective
Students will CREATE artwork to express their understanding…
Step 1: Pray
PRAY with the words of Saint Francis written 800…
Step 2: Personal Connections
Without a livelihood, people often turn to illegal…
Care Of Creation
Spwing Small Seeds
Objective: Students will CREATE artwork to express their understanding of “The Hymn of St. Francis of Assisi.”
They will DEMONSTRATE an understanding of the seven goals of Laudato Si by making a presentation on one of them to the class.
Through reading the Mission Story, the students will IDENTIFY how small seeds of action can have a big impact. Families will DEVELOP a plan to care for the earth.
Classroom Activities
Prayer & Reflection
Make Personal Connections
Faith Perspectives
Neighbor Focus
Exploring Scripture & Traditions
Lessons on How To Take Action
An interactive education program for teachers sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
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DYN lesson plans use global issues to examine those on the margins of society, explores how we think and feel, and guides how youth can act to share God’s love with those in need.
CARE OF CREATION
FALL / ORDINARY TIME
Pope Francis challenges us to change the “throwaway culture” we live in – what are we called to do in response to the Pope’s challenge?
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MIGRATION
ADVENT
Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.
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Global Solidarity
LENT
Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.
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GO FORTH
EASTER / PENTECOST
Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.
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CARE OF CREATION
MIGRATION
Global Solidarity
GO FORTH
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Care Of Creation
Sowing Small Seeds
Get started today with our course program for the 2025/26 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.