Teaching Ideas
The following poem (source unknown) was given to a teacher by a twelfth grader. Although it is not known if he wrote the poem, it is known that he committed suicide a few weeks later. He always wanted to explain things, but no one cared. Sometimes he would draw and it wasn’t anything. He wanted…
The children of God marched through hot desert sand, Opposed by their enemies on every hand, But they kept on marching as God’s holy band Until finally they occupied their promised land. Noah built an ark far from sea on dry sod. He listened and he obeyed the word of God. Noah’s neighbors laughed as…
NOTHING MEASURES HOW GREAT YOU ARE! Materials Needed: White construction paper, colored construction paper, rulers, pens, crayons and colored pencils, and glue. Activity: Have the children fold the white construction paper in half the long way and decorate the front with crayons or colored pencils. Then they trace a ruler on a colored sheet of…
(Based on Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1010; Luke 24:1-12) “Is it really true?” Joel asked. “I don’t know but that’s what I heard,” Ethan replied. “My dad was there.” “Then it’s really true that they killed Jesus?” Ethan looked at Joel and said:”I was already in bed Friday night, but I heard my dad and mother…
(Click on song titles to hear a clip.) Throughout your life, have you used certain jingles to remember facts? How about “30 Days has September” . . . or “in 1942 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”? Educational experts use music to teach everything from the ABC’s to the bones in our bodies because melodies are…