Year 2 The world: how do different people explain how it started? worksheet

“Where the story starts” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 religious education unit “The world: how do different people explain how it started?”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 25 to 30 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Where the story starts

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Religious education · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain that Jews and Christians share the creation story at the start of their holy books.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the building where many Christians meet to pray.
The schoolThe churchThe shop
2.
Circle the symbol that shows a pond.
The treeThe pondThe farm
3.
Which letter is missing from this compass? Circle it.
NESW

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia and Kit look at two holy books. Both books start with the same story.

A Torah scroll rolled on wooden rollers beside a silver pointer

Watch me

The Bible and the Torah both start with the same story.

The first book in both is called Genesis.

Genesis means beginning.

Now you

1.
Circle the name of the first book in both the Bible and the Torah.
ExodusGenesisPsalms

C Your turn6 min

Use the line of days and the chain for the first two. Then match and sort.

A Torah scroll and a closed Bible side by side on a wooden table

1.
God made the sky on day .
2.
Circle the thing God made straight after light.
skyland and plantsfish and birds
3.
Draw a line from each holy book to the people who read it.
BibleTorah
Jewish peopleChristians
4.
Write each card in the column where it fits best.
The holy book of Jewish peopleThe holy book of ChristiansStarts with the creation storyGenesis is the first book
Torah Bible Both

Say it out loud: Which holy book did you need for each answer, or was it both?

D Spot the mistake3 min

An open Bible with blank pages on a wooden lectern, with sunlight from a window.

Mia says: “Only Christians have a creation story about six days.”

1.
Is Mia right? Write one reason.

E Think deeper3 min

Dawn light over dark fields, seen through a window frame

1.
Why might Jews and Christians keep reading the same story for thousands of years? Write one idea.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Where the story starts · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. The church

2. The pond

3. E

B

1. Genesis If they circle Exodus, that book is in the Torah but comes second. Ask them which book comes first in both holy books.

C

1. 2 If they give the first day, ask them what was made straight after light.

2. sky If they circle land and plants, ask them to look at the chain again. Which one comes right after light?

3. Bible → Christians; Torah → Jewish people If they join Bible to Jewish people, ask them which holy book Jewish people read.

4. Both: Starts with the creation story, Genesis is the first book · Bible: The holy book of Christians · Torah: The holy book of Jewish people

D

1. Look for: Jewish people also have the six-day creation story at the start of the Torah, so the claim is false. If they agree with Mia, they may think only the Bible has the story. Ask them which holy book Jewish people read.

E

1. Look for: A good answer says the story matters to them, or that it reminds them God was there before anything else.

Words to use

Say“Which holy book does the story start in? Does the other holy book start with it too?”

Instead of“Only Christians have this story, don't they?”

After the sheet

Look out of a window together and name three things from the story, such as sky, plants or birds. Say which day God made each one, in the order you remember.

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The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Same story, different meanings(with a plan)
How Muslims Explain Creation(with a plan)
Humanists and the Start of the World(with a plan)
Different ideas about the world(with a plan)
Caring for the World(with a plan)

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