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Mountaingate Curricula
by Gaia Brown

(and please see below for information about Compass Points, a full year program for grades 6-8)

Super Heroes - Bible People
Illustrated by Jean States

A values-based curriculum for Unitarian Universalist children ages 6-9

In a world where so often "might makes right" and at an age when they are beginning to form values that will take them through their lives, your children are about to meet super heroes from the Bible who were, as the curriculum theme song states, "powerful with brains and even stronger in [their] heart[s]."

The goals of Super Heroes - Bible People are:

To introduce children to the stories of people from the Bible who have acted with courage and wisdom in their attempts to lead their lives fully and make the world a better place for others

To show how the lives of these people confirm the principles which we, as Unitarian Universalists, strive to promote

To encourage the children to lead their own lives fully and to use their own positive "super powers" as they interact with the world around them, and as they do so, to grow both spiritually and ethically.

 
Super Heroes - Bible People includes

** 19 "cookbook" style lessons
** a CD of the theme song
** beautiful illustrations that serve as home links

**And best of all, each lesson is complete: you don’t have to scramble for other resources!**

Feel free to request a preview of Super Heroes - Bible People by contacting gaiabrown@me.com
You’ll receive the introduction and three lesson (without illustrations).


UU Super Heroes
Illustrated by Terry Stafford

This 19-session curriculum can be used on its own or with Super Heroes—Bible People for a full year program. Like its companion curriculum, UU Super Heroes comes with a CD of the class theme song and illustrated home links to help start conversations between parents and children. Goals of the curriculum are:

To introduce children to stories of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists who have acted with courage and wisdom in their attempts to live their lives fully and make the world a better place for others.

To show how the lives of these people confirm the principles which we, as Unitarian Universalists, strive to promote. This is “biography as theology.”

To learn some of the traditions of our Unitarian Universalist faith movement and our individual congregations.

To encourage the children to lead their own lives fully and to use their own positive “super powers” as they interact with the world around them, and as they do so, to grow both spiritually and ethically.

Unitarian, Universalist and UU super heroes include Sophia Fahs, King John Sigismund, Lewis Latimer, Theodore Parker, Olympia Brown and a dozen more. Each lesson’s story begins with the super hero as a child, so that young children can relate to this distant person. It then goes on to tell a few instances in the super hero’s life which illustrate one or more of our UU principles. Exploring the out-of-doors, inventing, participating in a class pentathlon, creating a class magazine and cooperating on a social service project are examples of the activities which allow children to physically incorporate their new learnings.

To request a preview of UU Super Heroes, including the table of contents and a lesson (without illustrations), contact gaiabrown@me.com


Treasure Hunting - Take Two
co-authored with Ellen Schneider
illustrated by Terry Stafford

A Whole Year of Unitarian Universalist Treasures!

This is a fully reformatted, revised, and newly illustrated edition of that golden oldie, Treasure Hunting, updated with new stories and resources. Gaia and Ellen spent months on the phone between Reno and Madison to ensure an excellent curriculum, and Terry helped bring it to life with the wonderful illustrations she shipped down from British Columbia. This was truly a continental project!

Thirty-five cookbook style lessons are divided into three units:

Treasuring Ourselves and Others
Treasuring Our Church and Religion
Treasuring Our Neighbors and Our Planet Home


From the introduction to the original Treasure Hunting:

My goal in writing this curriculum is to try to reach the emotional and spiritual life of the child. Sunday services challenge, reorient, and energize me. I would like to be able to give that same sort of experience to children.

The theme of treasure hunting was chosen to involve children in the excitement of the search for meaning in life at the concrete level of their understanding. Each week through games, crafts, songs and stories, the children explore the meaning behind a Unitarian Universalist principle or value. For example, the first week the children treasure hunt among themselves to find people who have "curly hair," "like chocolate ice cream," "have a little brother," etc. The story and discussion that follow emphasize that Unitarian Universalists treasure people’s differences as well as similarities.

Central to the "Treasure Hunting" curriculum is the class treasure chest, and each child’s treasure chest which he or she makes to take home. The treasures discovered through the year include: the importance of each person, the power of feelings, the joy of friendship, the excitement of the search for truth, Unitarian Universalist heritage, the interdependence of people, and the fragile harmony of nature. In the end, what the Treasure Hunting curriculum hopes to inspire is a gentle way of knowing. Only with eyes informed by love and respect can we find life’s treasures.


Treasure Hunting - Take Two is aimed at kindergarten and first grade children, but can be adapted to include children from ages 4-7. You can request a preview of the table of contents and several lessons by contacting
gaiabrown@me.com



Compass Points

A full year program for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) exploring themselves, their beliefs, their UU faith, their relationships with others and the world

co-author Michelle Richards, CRE
illustrations by Terry Stafford

Goals of Compass Points

Compass Points will lead its adolescent participants on a year long spiritual journey during which they will have opportunities

To sort out their feelings about themselves and their world as they do the difficult work of starting to create their adult selves;

To discover what they believe about life’s big questions – the nature of humanity and God, beliefs about death and faith;

To think independently, assume responsibility, make decisions, explore values and adopt the practice of radical hospitality;

To acquire enough background in Unitarian Universalist history, polity and theology that they can know and express what Unitarian Universalism stands for;

To understand that religious liberty is a hard-won legacy that continues to need protection.

Compass Points is easily adapted for use with high school groups.

Please contact Gaia or Michelle to receive an annotated table of contents and the cost.

gaiabrown@me.com

richards.michelle@verizon.net

Ordering Information

Total
(View binders hold the cover and have the CD secured with Velcro)
Super Heroes—Bible People:
first copy in view binder @ $55 _____
additional copies with view binders@ $30    # copies_____ _____
first copy without binder @ $50 _____
additional copies without binder @ $25    # copies_____ _____

    
UU Super Heroes:
first copy in view binder @ $60 _____
additional copies with view binders@ $32    # copies_____ _____
first copy without binder @ $55 _____
additional copies without binder @ $27    # copies_____ _____

Treasure Hunting—Take Two:
first copy @ $100 _____
additional copies @ $50    # copies _____ _____

Compass Points:
first copy @ $120 _____
additional copies @ $50    # copies _____ _____

Shipping and handling for a single title:
       For 1-3 copies of the same curriculum: $7
       As a courtesy, shipping is free on an order of 4 or more of the same title

Shipping and handling of multiple titles:
       For 2 items: $7
       Add $1 for each additional item

Shipping is via Media Mail and can take 1-3 weeks.
Priority shipping (2-3 days) is $15. There is no “courtesy” extended for priority mail.

Shipping costs ______
TOTAL FOR ORDER ______

Please make checks to

    Gaia Brown
    4345 Mountaingate
    Reno, NV 89519
    gaiabrown@me.com