Learning map Catholic religious education

How to read the map

Grade ↓ · Strand →	Human beings and the world 0 of 10 building blocks practised	The question of God 0 of 14 building blocks practised	Bible and tradition 0 of 16 building blocks practised	Jesus Christ 0 of 20 building blocks practised	Church and parish 0 of 29 building blocks practised	Religion in a plural society 0 of 22 building blocks practised	Ethics and responsibility 0 of 10 building blocks practised
Grade 5/6	Human dignity and uniqueness (gap, no app yet) The two creation accounts (gap, no app yet) Humans as the image of God (gap, no app yet) Biblical primeval history (gap, no app yet)	Questions about God (gap, no app yet) Ways of imagining God (gap, no app yet) Biblical images of God (gap, no app yet) Forms of prayer (gap, no app yet) The Psalms (gap, no app yet) The Lord's Prayer (gap, no app yet)	Structure of the Bible (gap, no app yet) Looking up Bible references (gap, no app yet) How the Bible came to be (gap, no app yet) Hebrew Bible and Old Testament (gap, no app yet) The four Gospels (gap, no app yet) Abraham and Sarah (gap, no app yet) History of Israel (gap, no app yet) The Exodus story (gap, no app yet) Old Testament figures (gap, no app yet)	The world of Jesus (gap, no app yet) Groups in the time of Jesus (gap, no app yet) Jesus the Jew (gap, no app yet) Messianic expectation (gap, no app yet) The nativity stories (gap, no app yet) Jesus and the outcasts (gap, no app yet) The Passion narrative (gap, no app yet) The resurrection of Jesus (gap, no app yet) Following Jesus (gap, no app yet)	Inside a Catholic church (gap, no app yet) Church architecture and styles (gap, no app yet) The parish (gap, no app yet) Pentecost (gap, no app yet) The early Christian community (gap, no app yet) Paul the Apostle (gap, no app yet) The Council of Jerusalem (gap, no app yet) Spread of Christianity (gap, no app yet) The liturgical year (gap, no app yet) Symbols of Christmas and Easter (gap, no app yet) Sunday and the Eucharist (gap, no app yet) The order of Mass (gap, no app yet) Signs and symbols (gap, no app yet) The seven sacraments (gap, no app yet) Caritas and church aid agencies (gap, no app yet)	Everyday rituals (gap, no app yet) Religions in our society (gap, no app yet) Shabbat and Passover (gap, no app yet) The synagogue (gap, no app yet) The mosque (gap, no app yet) Islamic festivals (gap, no app yet) Abraham in three religions (gap, no app yet) Religious prejudice (gap, no app yet)	The Golden Rule (gap, no app yet) Global solidarity (gap, no app yet) Responsibility for creation (gap, no app yet) Guilt and forgiveness (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8	Creation and science (gap, no app yet) Identity in adolescence (gap, no app yet) Images of women and men (gap, no app yet)	The divine name YHWH (gap, no app yet) The God of liberation (gap, no app yet) The Trinity (gap, no app yet) The Creed (gap, no app yet) Criticism of belief in God (gap, no app yet)	Literary genres of the Bible (gap, no app yet) The synoptic problem (gap, no app yet) Interpreting biblical texts (gap, no app yet) The Bible in art and culture (gap, no app yet) Biblical prophets (gap, no app yet) Prophetic action today (gap, no app yet)	The kingdom of God (gap, no app yet) Parables of Jesus (gap, no app yet) Miracle stories (gap, no app yet) The cross as a symbol (gap, no app yet) Redemption through Jesus' death (gap, no app yet)	Baptism and confirmation (gap, no app yet) The sacrament of reconciliation (gap, no app yet) Core functions of the Church (gap, no app yet) Ministries and roles in the Church (gap, no app yet) People of God and Body of Christ (gap, no app yet) Religious life in a monastery (gap, no app yet) Christianisation of Central Europe (gap, no app yet) The Church in the Middle Ages (gap, no app yet) The Reformation and church division (gap, no app yet) Catholic and Protestant (gap, no app yet) Ecumenism (gap, no app yet) The Church under criticism (gap, no app yet)	Bar and bat mitzvah (gap, no app yet) The life of Muhammad (gap, no app yet) The Qur'an (gap, no app yet) The five pillars of Islam (gap, no app yet) Assessing religious groups critically (gap, no app yet) Fundamentalism and extremism (gap, no app yet)	The Ten Commandments (gap, no app yet) Love of God, neighbour and enemy (gap, no app yet) Conscience (gap, no app yet) Friendship and relationships (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10	Happiness and a fulfilled life (gap, no app yet) Christian hope for the end of time (gap, no app yet) Death and mourning (gap, no app yet)	God and idols (gap, no app yet) Theodicy (gap, no app yet) Speaking of God by analogy (gap, no app yet)	God's word in human words (gap, no app yet)	The Sermon on the Mount (gap, no app yet) Conflicts around Jesus (gap, no app yet) Resurrection and other afterlife beliefs (gap, no app yet) Christological titles (gap, no app yet) True God and true man (gap, no app yet) Jesus in media and art (gap, no app yet)	Marriage as a sacrament (gap, no app yet) The Church under Nazism (gap, no app yet)	The Torah (gap, no app yet) Comparing the Abrahamic religions (gap, no app yet) Christianity and Judaism (gap, no app yet) Anti-Judaism and antisemitism (gap, no app yet) Interreligious dialogue (gap, no app yet) Hinduism (gap, no app yet) Buddhism (gap, no app yet) Salvation across religions (gap, no app yet)	Ethical reasoning (gap, no app yet) Protection of life (gap, no app yet)

Click a building block to see what it builds on, when it is taught and which app practises it.

Strands and building blocks come from: Die deutschen Bischöfe Nr. 116, Kirchliche Richtlinien zu Bildungsstandards für den katholischen Religionsunterricht in der Sekundarstufe I (Sekretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, 24.06.2025) · The map as data (JSON)

How to read the map

Strand · a column: A part of the subject that runs over several school years.
Building block · a box: One thing a child can learn: “I can …”.
Grade band · a row: Roughly when a building block is taught. Choose a curriculum to see its grades.
App · the colour: Blue means covered: an app practises the building block. Dashed means a gap: no app practises it yet.

You see the grade band: roughly in which two school years a building block is taught. Each German state sets this a little differently. Choose a curriculum, and the map sorts the building blocks by its grades.

Not captured yet: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

All terms and how they belong together · Why this method?