FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
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 ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: Micah 6:8 offers a concise and powerful statement of the human calling before God: “What does the Lord require? Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly with God” (emphasis ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 20 min
delve: This activity is intended to get students thinking about how multiple levels of description, scientific and non-scientific, can coexist....
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 25 min
discover: This introductory activity guides students to consider what shalom is and how it may be related to studying chemistry. ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 25 min
debrief: This activity connects what students learned about differences and unity from previous activities to a contemporary faith and science controversy. It engages students in actively thinking outside ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in considering how our knowledge about the EM spectrum is connected to promoting or eroding shalom. ...
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 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 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 ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 25 min
discover: This activity engages students in reflecting on reasons for seeking knowledge. It invites students to see compassion and reconciliation as possible goals for learning that relate to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bible Unity and Diversity
delve: This activity asks students to investigate one of Paul’s missionary journeys. There are several possible approaches, such as designing a poster or display or video, constructing ...
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 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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 God and Natural Causes 10 min
discover: This short introductory activity aims to get students thinking about the relationship between the scientific language used to describe natural processes, and other kinds of language, including ...
Bible Unity and Diversity
debrief: This concluding activity engages students in applying their learning to other contemporary disagreements, including other faith and science questions. It asks them to see such disagreements not ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 0:35
discover: This activity aims to engage students in thinking critically about why science is done, why people enjoy science, how it should be done, and the limitations of ...