Bible Resurrection 15 min
discover: This lesson attempts to raise students’ awareness of the controversial nature of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For reasons that often claim to be grounded in science, ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 40 min
delve: This activity introduces Newton's third law of motion, action - reaction, and considers how this law shows God's care. It engages students in learning through examples and ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 40 min
debrief: This activity can be used as a test essay or take-home assignment to follow up and assess learning from Activity 4: The DNA Drama. Students engage in critical ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity engages students in lab work to help them connect the idea of a closed system to analysis of chemical reactions. It also raises the question ...
Bible Resurrection HW + 30 min
delve: This activity allows students to engage in more detail with some of the key arguments advanced in favor of the resurrection and to consider the kinds of ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 20 min
discover: This activity for science or Bible class engages students in thinking about what makes us accept things as true. What constitutes evidence for us? Students will consider ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: The goal of this activity is to have students read and respond to a variety of Bible passages that talk about our physical bodies, understanding that they ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 25 min
debrief: This short activity asks students to apply what they know about Newton's laws of motion to the problem of doing surgery in space and to revisit the ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 15 min
discover: This activity raises the question for students of what virtues have to do with chemistry, making their assumptions explicit as a basis for further learning....
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 15 min
debrief: This repeats the initial activity to allow students to see whether their assumptions have shifted during their work on the activity map. ...
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 ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 35 min
debrief: This activity uses two New Testament passages to engage students in exploring Christian virtues and their relevance to the practice of science. It encourages them to see ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 45 min
delve: This activity focuses on the virtues needed for collaborative scientific work. As students interact within collaborative processes, they will also learn the key concepts that are necessary ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 15 min
discover: The three-word summary "creation, fall, redemption" is one way among many to capture the overall narrative movement of the Bible. Although limited, it succinctly captures a key ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 20 min
debrief: This short concluding exercise engages students in actively reviewing the exploration of creation as a drama. It creates an opportunity to assess students’ understanding and also invites ...
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
debrief: This activity involves a cumulative or final project that allows students to use what they have been learning to investigate an ethical issue of their own choice ...
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 Stewardship, Science, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity looks at some of the complexities of species interactions and the effect they have on the environment, using the example of wolf populations at Yellowstone ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 30 min
delve: This activity engages students in exploring a series of connections between the creation passages in Genesis and the descriptions of the tabernacle, helping them see how a ...
Bible Resurrection 45 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the four Gospel writers’ stories of the resurrection of Jesus and considering whether the differences between them undermine their trustworthiness. It ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 20 min
discover: This is a starter activity to introduce the Bible’s language of stewardship. It helps students see how faith, stewardship, and science can connect....
Physics Newton’s Laws 30 min
delve: This activity introduces Newton's first law of motion, inertia, and connects it with the question of whether God is only active when miracles happen. It goes a ...
Bible Resurrection 25 min
delve: This activity engages students in considering how we know things and form beliefs in multiple ways. It aims to help students see how our way of knowing ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: Students conduct a lab and then are asked to see it differently in terms of the resources used and the implications for how we think about chemistry ...
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 Wonder and Wisdom 15 min
debrief: This activity revisits the introductory activity A Map in order to assess student learning and make students’ learning visible to them....
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 35 min
debrief: This activity is a follow-up to Activity 3: Bodies and Callings. It asks students to reflect back on their earlier ideas and to write an essay connecting Micah 6:8 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 45 min
delve: This activity explores in more detail the biblical picture of humanity’s relationship to the natural world and of the call to stewardship. It engages students in ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
discover: This activity (which also appears in the Activity Map on Science, Technology, and Service) introduces distinctions between basic science, applied science, and technology, and engages students in ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
discover: This activity introduces distinctions between basic science, applied science, and technology, and engages students in exploring how these relate to faith-informed motivations. Goals Students will understand the ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 20 min
delve: This activity explores the question of whether the idea of evolution necessarily implies that God could not be involved in the universe. It helps students see that ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 90 min
debrief: This concluding activity allows students to reflect on what they have learned as it relates to shalom and love for others and to demonstrate their understanding. ...
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
delve: This activity can be used as a continuation of and to augment the learning in Hebrew in Science Class?. It invites students to see the interconnections between ...
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 ...
Bible Resurrection 35 min
delve: This lesson explores the apostles’ reactions to hearing about the resurrection, and how their responses developed into a certainty that hold firm even in the face of ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith
delve: Students analyze the trash from a class party and consider how trash accumulation relates to the idea of a closed system. They also step back to reflect ...
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 Stewardship, Science, and Faith
debrief: This activity builds upon the Fruits of Stewardship activity and can also draw from various other activities in this Activity Map. It requires that students reflect on ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 10 min
discover: This is a scene-setting activity designed to get students thinking about wonder, wisdom, science, and faith....
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in generating examples of how the study of the human body relates to ethics, faith, and science. The activity helps students see that ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 20 min
delve: This activity engages students in learning about the concept of a closed system in the context of a laboratory experiment and helps them see how this concept ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 30 min
discover: This activity is about the meaning of giving names to things, which is a basic human impulse, as well as a part of scientific inquiry. It uses ...
Bible Resurrection 45 min
debrief: This concluding activity offers writing tasks that give students an opportunity to draw together what they have learned and respond personally. It both tests understanding of the ...
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 ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 45 min
delve: This activity introduces students to the concept of multiple causality. It is relevant when thinking about faith and science because of its connection to the question of ...