Endangered Amazonia

Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Care for Creation so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.

Student Art Honoring Mary

2022 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!

2023 Lesson Plan

(Volume 7, No.1)

Care for Creation

Endangered Amazonia

Objective

OBJECTIVE Students will UNDERSTAND the importance of the Amazon…

Step 1: Pray

Mary Mother of Life, we ask to reign in the beating heart of Amazonia…

Step 2: Personal Connections

“My connection with nature began when I was a child climbing trees…

Care for Creation

Endangered Amazonia

Students will UNDERSTAND the importance of the Amazon and the dangers it faces.

They will APPLY scripture and CST to better understand its connection to how we are called to Care for Creation.

They will CHOOSE a response that they can take locally.

They will DISCUSS what they have learned with their family.

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

LEARN ABOUT OUR LESSON TOPICS

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 FOR 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?

LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO

MIGRATION

ADVENT

Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.

LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

LENT

Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.

LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO

GO FORTH

EASTER / PENTECOST

Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.

LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO

SHARE US ON

Care for Creation

Endangered Amazonia

Get started today with our course program for the 2023/24 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.