Preface
What follows are detailed descriptions of the curricula published by the Religious Education Concerns Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, for children and young people. Within each description, teachers will find:
- the general content, often by chapters
- the ages for which the curriculum was written
- the number of lessons
- the amount of preparation time needed
- the kinds of suggested activities
- the supplies or equipment needed
The writers of the Curriculum Capsules, the Curriculum Subcommittee, designed the descriptions to be an easy-to-use reference guide for First-day teachers and religious education committees looking for the resources they can use.
Curricula with a next to them are available for free download. Click on the title to read the capsule and the download links.
All of the curricula can be purchased from the Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, or by phoning 1-800-966-4556. Most of the Religious Education curricula is available on loan from the PYM library, free of charge for Friends within PYM, by phoning 1-800-220-0796, ext. 7220. For more specific information about Religious Education resources, phone Christie Duncan-Tessmer 215-241-7008 or e-mail: christiedt@pym.org, or 1-800-220-0796, extension 7008
Published by Curriculum Working Group of the Religious Education Executive Concerns Group, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, September 1998 (reprinted, November 2001).
Last modified: Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 04:13 PM