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Australian Lutheran World Service

Hand in Hand Country Focus: Indonesia

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Hand in Hand

Upper Primary School

Teaching Ideas and

Resources

‘Love the Lord

your God with

all your heart

and with all

your strength

and with all

your mind’ and

‘Love your

neighbour as

yourself.’ Luke 10:27





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Contents


Hand in Hand

3 Hand in Hand Indonesia Calendar 7 Declaration of Human Rights

3 Where is Indonesia? 7 Sustainable Development

3 Picture Perfect 7 Education

3 Helping Hands 8 Disaster Preparedness

4 Plaster of Paris Handprint Wallhanging 9 What Can I Do?

4 Journal Time 10 Colouring In (worksheet)

4 40 Days of Prayer for Indonesia 11 40 Days of Pra yer for Indonesia

4 The LCA Hand in Hand with Indonesia 12 The LCA Ha nd in Hand with Indonesia (worksheet)

5 Hand in Hand—The LCA Partnerships 13 The LCA Work ing in Indonesia (worksheet)

5 Indonesia Fast Facts 14 Indonesia Fast Facts (wor ksheet)

5 Natural Disasters in Indonesia 15 Disasters in In donesia (worksheet)

6 Australia and Indonesia—Country Com-parison

16 Islam and Christianity (worksheet)

6 Human Development Index 17 World Map (worksheet)

6 Millennium Development Goals 18 Bone Diagram (wor ksheet)

6 Christians and Muslims 19 It Makes a Difference





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Hand in Hand Indonesia Calendar Links to Literacy, Christian Studies, SOSE, Maths Purpose: For the students to make links with Indonesia and their own lives here in Australia. Preparation: On a colour printer, print the calendar (found on the DVD) showing photos from Indonesia. Put the pages in the right order and spiral bind the calendar. Hole punch the bottom centre in order to hang. Procedure: Write all the students’ birthdays on the calendar and any other important days for your school. Hang and use the calendar in your classroom. Each time a person glances at it, checks a date, or writes something on it, student awareness will be heightened. Discuss with your class the pictures on the calendar at the beginning of each month. As a class, use the Bible verse as part of your devotion time. Where is Indonesia? Links to SOSE and The Arts Purpose: For students to see where in the world Indonesia is, learn about the shape of the country and learn about the flag. Preparation: Photocopy the sheet provided (Colouring In). Have colour copies of the flag for the students to copy and a map or globe. Procedure: Talk to the students about where Indonesia is in the world. Show on the map and/or globe. Talk about Asian and Indonesian cultures. Ask the students if they have ever travelled to Asia, and let them tell their stories. Talk to your students about Indonesian cultures, and give some of the facts of the country. Talk about the flag and the shape of the country. Have students colour in the flag and the map of the country. Picture Perfect Links to SOSE, The Arts, Christian Studies Purpose: To help students understand that people make assumptions based on their perceptions. Introduce visuals of Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy photographs of Indonesia from the photograph section on the DVD. Cut each photo strategically into pieces. You will also need a globe/world map. Procedure: Show students one piece of the picture (perhaps background) and discuss what else could be in the picture. Add a second piece revealing a little more. At each stage, discuss what the picture may be about, and ask how they came to that conclusion. When the picture is fully revealed, discuss how we only tend to see part of the picture. Talk about what the students know about Indonesia (location, cultural dance, animals etc). Provide links that there are some things about Indonesia that we don’t see — people struggling to send their children to school, many children working in the fields, natural disasters, etc. Find Indonesia on the globe/world map to reinforce how close the country is to Australia. Pray for the people in Indonesia. Helping Hands Craft activity—Links to The Arts, Christian Studies , SOSE Purpose: An activity for students to see that their hands can be part of action in our world. Preparation: Different shades of paper or cardboard, pens, scissors, banner. Procedure: Have students trace around their hand twice. Have one colour to represent the colour of the students’ skin and one a different colour to represent people of other nationalities. Glue them alongside each other with the fingers touching (like they are holding/shaking hands). Stick them on a banner saying “helping hands; helping neighbours” or the like.





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Plaster of Paris Handprint Wallhanging Links to The Arts, Christian Studies Purpose: For the students to have something they can take home to remind them that their hands are a gift from God and to use their gift as best they can. Preparation: Using cardboard (cereal boxes will do) make a mould of a heart. Using the manufacturer’s instructions, make up plaster of Paris and pour into the moulds (put alfoil underneath). String for hanging. Procedure: Have each student put their hand (or hands) into the plaster of Paris mixture. Press the ends of a ribbon, string or wool into the top edges of the mould so they're covered with plaster (this will be your hanger). Engrave into the mixture “My hand (s) can help”. You could also press small silk flowers into the plaster to decorate. Wait until the plaster hardens before taking the mould away from the out-side. Talk to the students about their hands as a gift from God, and all the good ways they can use their hands to help others. Send home for the students to put on their walls. Journal Time Links to Literacy Purpose: Allow students to reflect on how they and others have helped people for the week. Preparation: Make a journal book and put in a special corner or place in the classroom. Have a sign ‘How I’ve Helped Others’. Procedure: Give all students the opportunity throughout the week where they can write or illustrate how they have shared or helped other people during the week. At the end of the week, go through and see just how much the class can help others. Talk about how people in Indonesia need our help too, and talk about the work of the churches in Indonesia. 40 Days of Prayer for Indonesia Links to Christian Studies, SOSE Purpose: For students to learn about different ways the LCA is working hand in hand with Indonesian brothers and sisters, and to pray for specific needs in Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy the sheet provide (40 Days of Prayer for Indonesia). Procedure: Commit your class for 40 days to learn about and pray for Indonesia. Make sure that children understand that the work of the LCA is to work hand in hand so that the Indonesian people themselves are empowered and feel they can achieve great things on their own. The LCA Hand in Hand with Indonesia Links to Christian Studies, The Arts Purpose: For students to learn that there are many ways the Lutheran Church in Australia is working to support the differ-ent Lutheran Churches in Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy resource and information sheet ‘The LCA Working in Indonesia’ (found in the front section of the folder). Photocopy sheet provided (The LCA Hand in Hand with Indonesia). Procedure: Talk to the students about how the LCA works in Indonesia, making sure that students understand that the aim is for the Indonesian churches to be empowered and strengthened, not to become dependant on Australia for financial assistance. Have them draw pictures of the different ways Australians are helping.





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Hand in Hand—The LCA Partnerships with Indonesian L utheran Churches Links to Christian Studies, SOSE Purpose: For students to learn that different arms of the Lutheran Church of Australia work hand in hand to help our Indonesian neighbours. Preparation: Photocopy one each of the following pages found in the folder:

• The LCA Working in Indonesia (teacher resource) • Centre for Development Studies • Economic Groups for Business • Bible Women Training Schools • Diaconia (Service) Departments • Orphanages • Playgroups and Kindergartens • Tutoring Support Centres • Books for Bikes • Sewing Classes • Disability Services • Livelihood Projects • School Building and Teaching • Training Pastors and Lay Workers

Also photocopy 13 copies of the worksheet provided (The LCA Working in Indonesia). Procedure: Divide class into 13 groups and give them an information sheet to read and learn about. They are to then complete the worksheet “The LCA Working in Indonesia”. Stress the importance of teaching rather than giving, and in long-term, sustainable development, mission and education work. Indonesian Fast Facts Links to Literacy, Visual Literacy, Maths Purpose: For students to learn some facts about Indonesia, and start to compare Indonesia with Australia. Preparation: Set up the DVD (found in the front of this folder) to play the Photo Story on Indonesia (general). Photocopy the sheets “Indonesia: Fast Facts”, found in the general information section. Photocopy worksheet provided (Indonesia Fast Facts). Procedure: All students to view the Photo Story on Indonesia, then go through the Fast Facts sheet. Give them 5 minutes to talk about what they have remembered about Indonesia. Have them com-plete the Indonesia Fast Fact worksheet. Start to challenge them to consider what is similar and what is different about living in Australia and Indonesia. Natural Disasters in Indonesia Links to SOSE, Literacy Purpose: For students to learn about natural disasters and why they occur so frequently in Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy the sheet “Natural Disasters in Indonesia”. Have a globe or a map handy to discuss the world and how the earth is sitting on tectonic plates. Photocopy the worksheet provided (Disasters in Indonesia). Procedure: After a teacher-led discussion through the information sheet on natural disasters, ask students to write their own glossary of the words in bold: Plate tectonics, Pacific Ring of Fire, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, flooding. Ask what natural disasters occur in Australia, and discuss the differences in emergency services between the two countries. Talk about natural and human-made disasters before students complete the worksheet.





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Australian and Indonesia—Country Comparison Links to Mathematics, SOSE, Literacy Purpose: For students to compare statistics between the countries of Australia and Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy the sheet “Australia and Indonesia—Country Comparison”. Procedure: As a class, go through the statistics listed on the sheet. Discuss many of the findings, reiterating that Indonesia has very poor people and very rich people, and sometimes the statistics hide the truth of how people live. Encourage students to think of five more things they would like to know about Indonesia and research the answers on the internet or in a book. Human Development Index Links to SOSE, Literacy, Numeracy Purpose: For students to learn about the United Nations and their HDI rankings, and where Indone-sia and Australia are placed on those rankings. Preparation: Photocopy the sheets on the Human Development Index (from general section in folder), and the world map worksheet (in this section). Procedure: Have students choose 15 or 30 places in the world to mark on their world maps—the countries must be an even mix of highly developed, medium developed and low developed countries. Ask the students to consider what they learn from their maps. Millennium Development Goals Links to SOSE Purpose: For students to know about the MDGs and how Indonesia is beginning to achieve these goals. Preparation: Work out how you would like to show the students about the MDGs. You could use a PowerPoint, Movie or use the handouts from this folder. Procedure: Talk to students about the MDGs, and use whatever means you have decided as a vis-ual. Ask the students what MDGs are most important. Discuss why they are all important, and why Australia is trying to help poorer countries to achieve these goals. Ask the students to draw or write about the world that they would like to see when they are older. Christians and Muslims Links to Christian Studies, Literacy, SOSE Purpose: For students to explore the Muslim religion and compare it to Christianity. Preparation: Use the teaching resource sheets to learn about the Muslim faith. Photocopy the worksheet (Islam and Christianity) for each student. Procedure: Discuss with the class about different religions, and how the Muslim and Christian faiths differ. Allow them time to complete the worksheet about Islam and Christianity. Try to dispel fears that students may have of Muslims, while at the same time recognising the fears as legitimate for some families.





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Declaration of Human Rights Links to SOSE, Literacy, Christian Studies Purpose: For students to realise that there are people in the world who do not receive fair treat-ment, and so the Declaration of Human Rights becomes important to try to teach people what they are entitled to as human beings. Preparation: Photocopy the page that outlines simply some of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Procedure: Ask students to discuss why someone has to write down these rights. What rights are most important? Look at the two quotes (if the students are old enough), and discuss what they mean. Ask the students what they think is fair for their lives, and tell them that not all children in the world have a fair and just life. That’s why ALWS need to continue to work hard in many different places in the world, including Indonesia. Sustainable Development Links to SOSE Purpose: For students to consider the importance of long-term development work in Indonesia. Preparation: Photocopy the worksheet provided (Bone Diagram) and the Sustainable Develop-ment Information sheet. Procedure: Have your students write the topic “Sustainable Development in Indonesia” on the top of the bone diagram. Have your students consider the present situation in rural villages in Indonesia, and then consider what improvements are possible for their future if sustainable development initia-tives are put into place. They will need to consider the positive and negative factors of the people’s life now, and what they would like to see for the future. Education Links to Literacy, SOSE, Visual Literacy Purpose: To develop an understanding in young people about education, about gender in education and to enable them to empathise with people living in difficult circumstances in Indonesia. Preparation: Copies of education photographs from the DVD, access to information about educa-tion in Indonesia. Procedure: Step 1— Divide the group into smaller groups of three or four people and distribute copies of the photographs OR work as a class group. Allow the group time to view the photo. Step 2— Ask each group the following questions and have them report back to everybody after 5 minutes • What can you see in the photograph? • How does this classroom differ from your own school? • What do you think are the main challenges for teachers and students attending this school? • What could be done to improve the situation? Step 3— Discuss—Education for all is a right. It is often very hard for rural children, poor children and girl children to gain an education in Indonesia. Ask children to think about not being able to go to school because they lived too far away, their parents were too poor to afford it or because they were a girl. Step 4—Ask the children to make a list of things they are thankful for in their school. Remind them to go home and thank their parents for all that they receive to get a good education, and to thank God for all the blessings that he gives to each person.





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Disaster Preparedness Links to SOSE, Literacy, The Arts Purpose: Students develop an understanding of the preparation that can be done to limit the impact of a natural disaster, and then to consider the challenges for disaster preparedness in a country like Indonesia. Preparation and Procedure: Investigate the types of natural disasters which might occur in Australia. • What are they?

• How do they affect people, the environment and the economy?

• Who might help in these events?

• What can you do to prepare for these events? Prepare a survival kit of things you might take if you had to leave your house in a hurry because of a flood, cyclone or some other disaster. Together, read the information sheet “Natural Disasters in Indonesia”. Discuss: • What can you do to prepare for a disaster?

• How do you think preparing for a disaster such as an earthquake or flood would help when there was an earthquake or flood?

• How might people in Indonesia prepare for a similar disaster? Indonesia frequently has natural disasters to contend with. How would the poor people in Indonesia be affected by these natural disasters? Why is it so important for aid organisations to prepare people to deal with these disasters? How would having disaster preparation plans in place help the poorest people when a disaster strikes? Use the information provided on Banda Aceh and the Boxing Day tsunami as a stimulus for this discussion. Design a poster about preparing for an earthquake or flood using few words so that those who are unable to read would know what to do.

Fishing boats destroyed by the Boxing Day tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia.





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What Can I Do? Links to SOSE, English, Christian Studies, The Arts Purpose: Students can understand that they have a voice which can be heard. Preparation: Photocopy Action: Fundraising Ideas and Bible verses (students can use these for reference); bibles. Put story It Makes a Difference on OHT or PowerPoint (provided). Procedure: Discuss with students: Can each person make a difference to the justice issues in the world? Yes, individuals can make a difference even though it may not seem so. Read following story and discuss with students: It Makes A Difference (Anonymous)

As the old man walked down the beach at dawn he noticed a young man ahead of him pick-ing up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morn-ing sun. “But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish,” countered the other. “How can your effort make any difference?” The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and threw it to the safety of the waves. “It makes a difference to this one,” he said.

Find bible verses that enlighten us about how God wants us to consider those affected by issues of injustice (see bible verses relating to poverty and injustice). How could a ripple effect be an example of how individuals can make a difference? List the things that students can do to make a difference. E.g.-

• Pray for people dealing with issues of justice • Become aware of and involved in justice issues—Millennium Development Goals; Make Pov-

erty History; The Micah Challenge • Value education—Keep learning! • Learn to read, reason and communicate to make informed choices and understand events • Strengthen your skills • Talk to people that are different from you • Learn your rights and those of other people • Find your voice • Fundraise through ALWS towards the Awareness Week Projects in Indonesia.

Don’t let anyone look

down on you because

you are young, but set

an example for the

believers in speech, in

life, in love, in faith

and in purity.

1 Timothy 4:12

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