Teaching Religion in America's Public Schools

Welcome to All Sides of the Story. This web site is devoted to helping public school teachers across the country deal with the teaching of religion in a fair, tolerant and informed manner.

Here, you will hopefully find everything you need to teach religion in the schools, from historical U.S. Supreme Court Cases dealing with the history of religious issues in the public schools, to overviews of world religions, to lesson plans for all levels, K-12.

An index of the five "major" world religions, religions with more than 3 million followers each, and other less populated religions.

Each religion is broken down into history of the religion, beliefs, concepts of God, number of followers and links for more information.

As an educator, you face many important decisions regarding religion in the public schools. This section is designed to help you deal with how to teach religion, what you can and can't do, and what you probably should and shouldn't do.

This section contains a list of activites to assist you in teching religion. Practical as well as theoretical lesson plans are available for your use.

What is religious tolerance, and how can we teach it to our students? How can I not be biased toward my own religion when I teach?

This site is intended to be an educational instrument in the teaching of religion in the public schools. The author of the site by no means claims to be a expert authority on any particular religion or religions in general. Nor does the author claim the web site to be complete or without bias. The information here is meant to assist primarily K-12 educators. Please keep this in mind as you use this site.