Given that the subject Nature and Society is a compulsory school subject, the reader is introduced to its basic features at the very beginning. The basic features are the scope and depth of the content, the completeness of the teaching, and the appropriateness and changeability of the content. Furthermore, the curriculum of the subject is briefly presented, and within that chapter, the concepts that make up the structure of the subject Nature and Society are also presented. In addition to the Nature and Society curriculum, a part of the Catholic Religious Education curriculum was presented, which mentions the treatment of appropriate topics. Points of contact in the curricula of those two subjects are also presented. The topic of this diploma thesis is appropriate topics that are dealt with in the course of Nature and Society, and in this thesis the Days of Bread and the Feast of St. Lucia were chosen. A different approach to the topics and different processing of them is shown in the practical part of the research by holding classes in the 1st and 2nd grade of elementary school. In the classes held, the emphasis was on student motivation in the introductory part of the class and on processing the topic using different teaching activities in the main part of the class.