Here's a fun new activity you can use to encourage your students to come to better know the Saints. I created these Saint Biography slides a few weeks ago as a cumulative project after studying our brand new Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. After learning about each, my students got to pick one of those Saints and complete these slides about their lives. But while this was created with Carlo and Pier in mind, it really will work for nearly any Saint that your students can research!
I wanted to make something fresh and attractive, so these slides started with
this template on Canva. I edited them to work for a Saint biography, including slides on:
- Quick Facts (dates, location, cause of death)
- Photos/Images
- Timeline (major events in their life, you could add more specific directions)
- Heroic Virtue (what virtue did they exemplify and why)
- Words of Wisdom (quote by the Saint- could adapt if we don't have writing from the Saint the student chooses)
- Following Christ (how the Saint followed Christ in their daily lives)
- Interests and Hobbies
- Patronage (students can choose a patronage or explain a patronage they already have)
- Live Like a Saint (how the student is inspired by the Saint's life)
The beautiful thing is that you can edit or adapt these to fit your students, either cutting some slides out or adding more specific directions or requirements.
Here's a preview of the slides:
Click here to open the Saint Slides:
Ideas for how to use these:
- Once you make a copy, you are free to edit these to better fit the needs of your students/child.
- Classroom teachers who use Google Classroom- Make a copy of my file, add to your own Google Drive, assign in Google Classroom, use "make copy for each student" feature.
- ***REMINDER- If you are using Google Classroom, 99% of the time, you CANNOT assign students my original file. It is almost always blocked by school filters. Please make sure you make a copy of the file first, and then assign it. Otherwise I receive dozens of share requests that I can't solve! :)
- Classroom teachers who use other classroom interfaces- Download a copy of the file as a PowerPoint, upload and assign in your classroom interface. (Formatting may be off- check for readability, etc.)
- Classroom teachers whose students are too young or don't use Google Classroom, etc. Make a copy of my file, add to your own Google Drive, display on your smartboard or projector, and complete the study together as a class.
- Parents, catechists, homeschoolers- Make a copy of my file and add to your own Google Drive or download as a PowerPoint. Have individual child work through the study.
Places to research Saints that I recommend to students:
Or
click here for a clickable slide you could share with students:
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