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.
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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
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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.
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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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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
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 FOR CREATION
MIGRATION
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
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Endangered Amazonia
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