FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 15 min
discover: This activity is designed to get students talking to their parents or another adult about the topic of stewardship....
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
delve: This activity actively engages students in considering different perspectives on a biblical text by having them interview readers with different training and interests. It aims to help ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity engages students in visually representing scientific information, and in imparting it to an adult conversation partner with an emphasis on both clarity and respectful, supportive ...
Relationships Labs and Community 12 min
discover: The following brainstorming activity requires students to think deeply about a topic or concept, rather than just skimming the surface, as a preparation for delving into a ...
Physics Newton’s Laws HW + 30 min
debrief: This activity draws together more than one dimension of teaching FASTly by asking students to consider the relationship of faith to both scientific ideas and collaborative practice ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 60 min
delve: The relationship between faith and science is not just about evaluating scientific and theological claims. Another connection happens when the language of faith draws imagery from the ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 15 min
delve: This demonstration, in which a sample of water appears to burn, helps students to see that water purity is impossible to gauge with the naked eye, and ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 25 min
discover: This introductory activity guides students to consider what shalom is and how it may be related to studying chemistry. ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 40 min
debrief: This review activity is appropriate for the end of a semester or a longer teaching sequence. It provides a communal way of reviewing material that creates interactions ...
Relationships Labs and Community 5 min
debrief: This brief closing activity allows students to reflect on the virtues and scientific concepts covered during a class period. Engaging students in brief reflection, both on the ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community
discover: Teaching FASTly includes attending to relationships. Good communication with parents should not begin with alerting them when difficult topics are approaching, but should be part of our ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 25 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the structure of Psalm 113 and considering how its picture of God relates to the expansion of our picture of the universe ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 30-45 min
delve: Students will each design their own plot of land and then connect their plots to make up a watershed. This leads to a definition of “watershed” and ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 90 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the history and drama surrounding DNA's discovery. It gives them the opportunity to analyze the motives of scientists, observe and critique ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 30 min
delve: High school is a perfect time to talk about driving safety as many students are just learning to drive and/or getting their license. How does an ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors
debrief: This activity engages students in visually representing scientific information, and teaching it to an adult conversation partner with an emphasis on both clarity, and respectful and supportive ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 15 min
delve: People disagree about some of the biggest questions connecting faith and science. Teaching and learning FASTly involves seeing these disagreements not just as a chance to win ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: This activity engages students in reflection on the roles of scientific knowledge, ethical reflection, and empathy in decision making when our decisions affect the bodily well-being of ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
debrief: This activity provides a substantial assessment of learning from the previous activities in this map that also fosters family conversation about faith and science questions....
Bible God and Natural Causes
debrief: This activity provides a substantial assessment of learning from the previous activities in the "God and Natural Causes" Activity Map while fostering family conversation about faith and ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 60 min
delve: The Discover activities started students thinking about the role of science, faith, and ethics in relation to the human body. This activity engages students in working with ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in thinking about their earliest memories of water. It offers a brief introduction to learning about water, grounding the topic in students’ personal ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 45 min
delve: This activity engages students in physically exploring the path taken by rainwater as it travels across school property, and asks them to consider the pollutants it gathers ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 20 min
discover: This activity introduces a basic concept of ecological science through a physical representation of how ecosystems are related. It introduces the ideas of interconnectedness and care, helping ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 25 min
discover: Students debate a random topic together and then step back to consider how we engage with one another about areas of disagreement....
Relationships Labs and Community
delve: These activities can be completed by individual lab groups or as whole class challenges. These challenges can be guided or very open-ended depending on the level of ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in a practical, experiential introduction to the concept of a watershed, and to how pollutants can travel within a watershed. It also helps ...
Relationships Homework
debrief: This activity reviews in-class science learning and invests in strengthening relationships between students and a parent or another adult. It engages students in conducting demonstrations at home ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 10 min
delve: Learning more about how faith relates to science is not just a cognitive task; teaching and learning FASTly can affect important relationships. Students may be concerned about ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity aims to help students think about how to ask thoughtful and open-ended questions when discussing faith and science issues, and also to engage them with ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity aims to help students think about how to ask thoughtful and open-ended questions when discussing faith and science issues, and also to engage students with ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community
delve: Good communication with parents should begin before you have to alert them to potential controversy when difficult topics are approaching. This activity describes an evening event to ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 5 min
delve: This activity focuses on the early church's decision to welcome Gentiles into "the Way" of Christ without demanding either circumcision or strict Torah observance, resulting in diversity ...
Relationships Labs and Community 20 min
discover: Forming lab groups that work together for an extended period of time can help build community within a science class and also provide a context within which ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity engages students in working with limited resources during lab work and exploring the connections between choices of resources and character....
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith
debrief: This activity has students collaborate to create media content that informs viewers about stewardship problems and suggests changes in attitude and/or behavior....
Relationships Homework
debrief: This is a short homework activity for use at the beginning and end of a unit or topic in the science classroom. It engages students in observing ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 10 min
discover: This activity uncovers how students see divine action in both the laws of nature and in God’s more surprising activities. It engages students in articulating and ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 10 min
debrief: This is a follow-up to Activity 1: Pre-Test. It uses a repeat of the survey from that activity to gather information on how students see divine action and ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 30 min
debrief: In this activity students create a short podcast to share with parents and relatives. The podcast is intended to invite the wider community into faith-affirming science learning ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 25 min
discover: The story of Pentecost helps us see that diversity is central to the gospel and its proclamation and prompts us to ask what diversity is for. This ...
Relationships Labs and Community
delve: This semester-long assignment prompts students to see how the concepts of a science course connect to their everyday life, to reflect on their own learning, and to ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This semester-long assignment prompts students to see how the concepts of a science course connect to their everyday life, to reflect on their own learning, and to ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
delve: After solving projectile motion problems using kinematics equations, students will reflect on the different applications of this knowledge and see how applied physics knowledge can be connected ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 20 min
debrief: Conversations with parents at parent-teacher conferences provide an opportunity to communicate the educational vision of your program and help parents see in new ways how their son ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 120 min
delve: Homework, especially at the secondary level, can isolate students from parents and family, or involve parents mainly in the role of taskmaster or source of moral support. ...
Relationships Labs and Community
debrief: This activity provides a way of communally reviewing material in order to sustain the intensity of engagement longer than working in small groups and create interactions between ...
Relationships Labs and Community
debrief: This is an alternate version of Activity 7 that requires less movement but sustains intensity of engagement longer than working in small groups. It creates interactions between different ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in an analysis of the changing relationship in the early church between both Jews and Samaritans, and Eunuchs and Gentiles. It focuses on ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This is a short introductory activity designed to focus students on how they can encourage and serve those younger than themselves in the context of science learning. ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 25 min
discover: This introductory activity guides students to consider what shalom is and how it may be related to science....
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity engages individual students in investigating articles from online science news reporting, conducting a basic audit for initial signs of validity, and discussing with an adult ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 5 min
debrief: In this activity, students show their progress in seeing how learning physics relates to shalom and discernment by sharing their thinking with others throughout the year....
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in learning about one community’s efforts to bring science, education, faith, and action together to improve conditions in a watershed. It encourages ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith
debrief: This activity is designed to help students connect what they have learned about stewardship with their own sphere of influence....
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 40 min
discover: This activity involves using a survey tool to elicit the views of both students and parents about faith and science questions. It will help you and your ...
Relationships Labs and Community
delve: If reflection and inquiry are being encouraged in the science classroom, then good questions will arise that reach beyond the textbook or the day's assigned information. This ...
Relationships Labs and Community 30 min
discover: This quick, fun, and engaging activity is based on Tom Wujec's TED Talk Build a Tower, Build a Team. The focus here is not on learning science ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors
delve: This is a major project activity to be conducted over a period of time. It engages your students with students in another school upstream or downstream from ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 60 min
delve: The Discover activities started students thinking about the role of science, faith, and ethics in relation to the human body. This activity engages students in working with ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
discover: This activity introduces the idea that there are connections linking careful observation of the natural world, science learning, and the biblical call to wisdom and worship. It ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community
discover: This activity engages students in sharing what they are learning with members of their family and asks them to consider how to communicate a sense of wonder. ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 50 min
debrief: Activity 2: Why Do Science? and Activity 4: The DNA Drama focused on famous scientists’ motivations for doing science. This activity turns attention to students’ own thoughts, desires, and ...